Tag: University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

CISL and The Crown Estate announce major partnership

Stuart Mitchell

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and The Crown Estate have announced a major new partnership to accelerate sustainable innovation and collaboration in the built environment and support nature recovery across the UK.  As the founding partner of CISL’s new Living Lab, The Crown Estate will work with CISL to fast-track the adoption of sustainable solutions and innovations across the built environment.   Based in Cambridge’s pioneering Entopia Building, a deep sustainable retrofit, the Living Lab brings together businesses, innovators, researchers, and policymakers to collaborate, test, and…

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MUFG joins CISL’s Investment Leaders Group

Stuart Mitchell

MUFG Asset Management (MUFG AM), under its financial group MUFG, is the latest organisation to join the Investment Leaders Group (ILG), underlining its initiatives to promote sustainable investing and commitment to advancing economic, social and environmental sustainability throughout the investment chain.  Partnering with MUFG AM, a prestigious Tier 1 financial group in Japan, presents the Investment Leaders Group with the excellent opportunity to build on CISL’s strong work across Asia, combining the academic rigour of Cambridge with MUFG AM’s strong and growing sustainability foundations, while driving sustainable investment practices in…

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Four new CISL Network Ambassadors announced

Stuart Mitchell

CISL is delighted to announce the appointments of Khanyi Mlambo, Simon Wong, Perses Bilimoria and Daniel Vaughan as Network Ambassadors.    Khanyi will represent the CISL Network in South Africa, Simon in Japan, Perses in India, and Daniel in Hong Kong.    The expansion of CISL’s ambassadorship programme reflects CISL’s commitment to driving wide-reaching impact on a global scale. Promising ideas and solutions for addressing the challenges we face originate in every part of the world. CISL’s global Network is a key mechanism for identifying and scaling these. An extraordinary worldwide…

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Just Earth: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) host launch event for Tony Juniper’s new book

Stuart Mitchell

CISL and CCI recently hosted an event to celebrate the launch of Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet, the latest book by Tony Juniper CBE.   Just Earth shows how inequality underpin the biodiversity and climate crises which are ravaging our planet – and the crises cannot be solved unless society deals with the unfairness and injustice faced by our most vulnerable communities.  Tony Juniper, Chair of Natural England and CISL Fellow, began by explaining how he came to write the book: “[Carbon emissions] have been…

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CISL’s 2024 Annual Review published

Stuart Mitchell

2024 was a challenging and pivotal year for CISL and the wider sustainability movement. Action taken across the world is not keeping up with the challenges that are being thrown at it. Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing, despite renewable energy hitting new heights. The biodiversity crisis continues apace, global temperatures are rising and climate negotiations are not achieving what is needed. ‘Sustainability as usual’ has not worked and has no realistic prospect of doing so.   In a year when CISL appointed Lindsay Hooper as its permanent CEO, the…

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