Tag: University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

New tool launched to help business diagnose hurdles to implementing nature-based solutions

Stuart Mitchell

 A new diagnostic tool from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has been launched to offer practical guidance for adoption of nature-based solutions (NbS). The open access tool has been designed after consultation with more than 35 leading companies, including ASDA, Coca-Cola, Iceland, Mars, Nestle, Pepsico, Primark, Sainsbury’s and Unilever. Decision-making in a nature positive world aims to help companies understand what NbS are and how to use them to address and solve strategic business and environmental challenges. This includes carbon emissions, climate change resilience, and the loss and…

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Winner of 2019 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards announced

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership announced that Emmanuel Emodek, founder of digital platform ChapChap, has been chosen from eight winning entrepreneurs as the recipient of this year’s HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneurs Prize. ChapChap is a digital platform that helps small businesses balance the books and keep track of transactions all from their very own smartphone. Half of all small and medium businesses in Africa fail because of poor book-keeping, a lack of inventory management, and bad business practices. With SMEs accounting…

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Bottled water and soft drinks producers drive plan to eliminate plastic packaging waste from their sectors by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a group of leading bottled water and soft drink manufacturers have launched a report today at the House of Commons, which sets out an ambitious roadmap to eliminate plastic packaging waste from the bottled water and soft drinks value chain by 2030. The report, the first of its kind, is set out to enable and encourage other industries and countries to create their own systemic roadmaps and visions to eliminate plastic packaging waste. The report, developed collaboratively by the industry…

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