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Businesses, entrepreneurs, green growth groups and leading climate NGOs welcome EU Green Deal Industrial Plan and call on bloc to increase its speed, scale and focus

Stuart Mitchell

Over forty organisations representing business innovation, green growth associations, clean tech entrepreneurs, think-tanks, institutes and NGOs are calling on the EU to make a success of the proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan. Read the letter In a letter to EU leaders, signatories offer guidance and call for rapid action on ten priority measures before this week’s Special European Council meeting which will help chart the EU response to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Together these suggested measures can ensure public funding is accessed more quickly across all EU budget…

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CISL is offering a free sustainability programme to local businesses in Cambridge

Stuart Mitchell

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is running a free programme for businesses in the local area who want to learn how to improve their sustainability credentials.  The in-person workshop, Sustainability essentials for your SME/Startup will include keynote speakers, case studies, networking opportunities, and a dinner reception at Downing College, Cambridge. Experts in the field will educate participants on how to take practical steps to implement sustainability into their businesses. Viola Jardon, Senior Programme Manager for CISL’s Accelerator team at the Canopy: “Startups and SMEs often feel overwhelmed about sustainability…

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Three new impact-led businesses join CISL’s sustainable startup hub in Cambridge

Stuart Mitchell

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) welcomes three new, impact-led businesses as official members of its Canopy innovation hub.  Advanced Infrastructure, Perpendicular Architecture, and New Allotment are the latest to join the community, with a range of focus from tackling the climate crisis through the built environment, to a data-driven approach to the energy transition.  Perpendicular Architecture is the brainchild of Patrick Usborne & Aelene Thorne and aims to simultaneously tackle the climate emergency, biodiversity loss and social inequality. His team are building ‘for tomorrow, not yesterday’, using regenerative design…

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CISL’s new green startup hub welcomes electric motor innovator as first business

Stuart Mitchell

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) announces green startup Monumo as the first official member of its newly launched Canopy business hub. Monumo is an electromagnetic engineering company setting out to reinvent the electric motor.   Electric motors are an increasingly vital technology in today’s world, using roughly 50% of the world’s energy. They pump domestic water, power transport and keep household appliances, like washing machines, running. But there is an environmental cost. Most electric motors are made with rare earth permanent magnets, producing a huge amount of carbon emissions and toxic…

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CISL programme director heads up all-women team to Antarctica to oversee wildlife monitoring and running world’s most southerly Post Office

Stuart Mitchell

Built environment and China specialist Lucy Bruzzone is travelling 9,000 miles as part of an expedition to Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula to take up some of the most remote jobs in the world. The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) project received a record 6,000 expressions of interest and 4,000 job applications in April, and this week the charity announced Lucy as part of the four-women team that will reopen Port Lockroy for the first time since the Covid 19 Pandemic.  The expedition team will be in charge of…

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