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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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New poll indicates strong business appetite for net zero regulation

Stuart Mitchell

An overwhelming majority of business leaders surveyed in seven major economies agree government policies are necessary to deliver the net zero transition.   A new YouGov poll commissioned by the University of Cambridge institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) finds eight in 10 leaders of large businesses across five continents say they believe regulation is needed for their net zero ambitions and for economy-wide decarbonisation.   In the wake of this year’s IPCC mitigation report which suggested progress in policies, regulations and market mechanisms could be scaled up and applied widely to produce…

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BEI announces new Chair and Vice-Chair

Stuart Mitchell

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) has announced ABN AMRO Global Head of Group Sustainability Richard Kooloos as its new Chair and former Bank of England Senior Advisor Michael Sheren as Vice-Chair.  The new appointments reflect Richard’s and Michael’s deep sector knowledge as well as their passion for driving progress on sustainability in the finance arena.  Their skills and experience will support the BEI’s goals of supporting decarbonisation of the global economy, protection and restoration of nature, and building inclusive and resilient societies.    The…

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