Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
@cisl.cam.ac.uk
CISL is an impact-led institute at the University of Cambridge that activates leadership to transform economies for people, nature & climate. We work across business, finance and government to accelerate action for a sustainable future. www.cisl.cam.ac.uk
As COP30 kicks off, CISL's Director for the Centre of Sustainable Finance, Dr Nina Seega, discusses how the conference presents an opportunity for the UK to 'lead on the world stage' on LBC
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
As COP30 kicks off, CISL's Director for the Centre of Sustainable Finance, Dr Nina Seega, discusses how the conference presents an opportunity for the UK to 'lead on the world stage' on LBC
🎙️Listen here: https://youtu.be/DhIggprK-Uk?utm_source=hootsuite
🎙️Listen here: https://youtu.be/DhIggprK-Uk?utm_source=hootsuite
📢 We're pleased to support the Ellen MacArthur Foundation #2030PlasticsAgenda for
Business.
🔗 Join us to take the lead, have the opportunity to shape the market and set up for long-term resilience: https://ow.ly/XG9Y50XmAvz
Business.
🔗 Join us to take the lead, have the opportunity to shape the market and set up for long-term resilience: https://ow.ly/XG9Y50XmAvz
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 We're pleased to support the Ellen MacArthur Foundation #2030PlasticsAgenda for
Business.
🔗 Join us to take the lead, have the opportunity to shape the market and set up for long-term resilience: https://ow.ly/XG9Y50XmAvz
Business.
🔗 Join us to take the lead, have the opportunity to shape the market and set up for long-term resilience: https://ow.ly/XG9Y50XmAvz
Business leaders today are caught between two stories: one of unstoppable progress, the other of mounting risk and eroding trust. Here, CISL CEO Lindsay explores the tension between these narratives—and how leaders are navigating and shaping the future of markets: www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/blog/am...
From Ambition to Strategy: shaping what comes next | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
16 September 2025 - Lindsay Hooper, CEO at CISL, discusses the tension shaping business leadership today: the promise of innovation and momentum toward sustainability versus the systemic risks and pol...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Business leaders today are caught between two stories: one of unstoppable progress, the other of mounting risk and eroding trust. Here, CISL CEO Lindsay explores the tension between these narratives—and how leaders are navigating and shaping the future of markets: www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/blog/am...
👋 We welcomed @commonseac.parliament.uk
to Cambridge yesterday alongside experts from finance, aviation, policy & the built environment to support MPs in shaping bold, green policy.
🔗: cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-we...
@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
to Cambridge yesterday alongside experts from finance, aviation, policy & the built environment to support MPs in shaping bold, green policy.
🔗: cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-we...
@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
👋 We welcomed @commonseac.parliament.uk
to Cambridge yesterday alongside experts from finance, aviation, policy & the built environment to support MPs in shaping bold, green policy.
🔗: cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-we...
@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
to Cambridge yesterday alongside experts from finance, aviation, policy & the built environment to support MPs in shaping bold, green policy.
🔗: cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-we...
@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social
❓Are we on the edge of a disruption to the food and agricultural industries that is comparable to the energy transition already underway?
CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues in @financialtimes.com that a major market disruption is coming to the global food system
Read here: on.ft.com/4n5cZ1p
CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues in @financialtimes.com that a major market disruption is coming to the global food system
Read here: on.ft.com/4n5cZ1p
Renewable food is on the horizon
Industrial agriculture is failing us — but markets have found a solution
on.ft.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
❓Are we on the edge of a disruption to the food and agricultural industries that is comparable to the energy transition already underway?
CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues in @financialtimes.com that a major market disruption is coming to the global food system
Read here: on.ft.com/4n5cZ1p
CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues in @financialtimes.com that a major market disruption is coming to the global food system
Read here: on.ft.com/4n5cZ1p
👩⚕️Continuing our focus on where real market transformation takes place, this week we're shining a spotlight on health systems and how to unlock win-wins that support people’s health and the economy, and how businesses can support a healthier society.
👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
August 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
👩⚕️Continuing our focus on where real market transformation takes place, this week we're shining a spotlight on health systems and how to unlock win-wins that support people’s health and the economy, and how businesses can support a healthier society.
👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
📢We're pleased to announce a new project with RICS.
This collaboration aims to align CISL’s sustainability leadership expertise with RICS’ mission to achieve a built and natural environment that is sustainable, resilient and inclusive for all.
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This collaboration aims to align CISL’s sustainability leadership expertise with RICS’ mission to achieve a built and natural environment that is sustainable, resilient and inclusive for all.
👉 ow.ly/EJPk50WG89L
August 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📢We're pleased to announce a new project with RICS.
This collaboration aims to align CISL’s sustainability leadership expertise with RICS’ mission to achieve a built and natural environment that is sustainable, resilient and inclusive for all.
👉 ow.ly/EJPk50WG89L
This collaboration aims to align CISL’s sustainability leadership expertise with RICS’ mission to achieve a built and natural environment that is sustainable, resilient and inclusive for all.
👉 ow.ly/EJPk50WG89L
🏆 The Entopia Building – CISL’s retrofit HQ in Cambridge – has been shortlisted for the 2025 RIBA Reinvention Award!
Already a multi-award winner, Entopia is a Living Lab for sustainable innovation in the built environment.
More: bit.ly/EntopiaRIBA
Already a multi-award winner, Entopia is a Living Lab for sustainable innovation in the built environment.
More: bit.ly/EntopiaRIBA
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏆 The Entopia Building – CISL’s retrofit HQ in Cambridge – has been shortlisted for the 2025 RIBA Reinvention Award!
Already a multi-award winner, Entopia is a Living Lab for sustainable innovation in the built environment.
More: bit.ly/EntopiaRIBA
Already a multi-award winner, Entopia is a Living Lab for sustainable innovation in the built environment.
More: bit.ly/EntopiaRIBA
Last week, we welcomed leaders to the formal launch of the #LivingLab – a collaborative innovation community in our award-winning Entopia HQ.
👉 Join a knowledge, innovation & action community driving systemic change across the built environment sector: ow.ly/lNy450WzVcz
👉 Join a knowledge, innovation & action community driving systemic change across the built environment sector: ow.ly/lNy450WzVcz
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Last week, we welcomed leaders to the formal launch of the #LivingLab – a collaborative innovation community in our award-winning Entopia HQ.
👉 Join a knowledge, innovation & action community driving systemic change across the built environment sector: ow.ly/lNy450WzVcz
👉 Join a knowledge, innovation & action community driving systemic change across the built environment sector: ow.ly/lNy450WzVcz
🏡Did you know that Cambridge homes = 27% of the city's emissions?
To hit #NetZero by 2030, @camcitco.bsky.social and @cisl.cam.ac.uk new report on scaling up retrofits details the 6 key actions with transformative climate, health and job benefits.
Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/NZUg50WwBsb
To hit #NetZero by 2030, @camcitco.bsky.social and @cisl.cam.ac.uk new report on scaling up retrofits details the 6 key actions with transformative climate, health and job benefits.
Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/NZUg50WwBsb
July 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🏡Did you know that Cambridge homes = 27% of the city's emissions?
To hit #NetZero by 2030, @camcitco.bsky.social and @cisl.cam.ac.uk new report on scaling up retrofits details the 6 key actions with transformative climate, health and job benefits.
Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/NZUg50WwBsb
To hit #NetZero by 2030, @camcitco.bsky.social and @cisl.cam.ac.uk new report on scaling up retrofits details the 6 key actions with transformative climate, health and job benefits.
Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/NZUg50WwBsb
🏗️The built environment shapes how we all live, work and move.
Find out how CISL is working with businesses, innovators, investors and policymakers to incubate new solutions, drive green building standards, and scale sustainable infrastructure cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
Find out how CISL is working with businesses, innovators, investors and policymakers to incubate new solutions, drive green building standards, and scale sustainable infrastructure cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
July 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🏗️The built environment shapes how we all live, work and move.
Find out how CISL is working with businesses, innovators, investors and policymakers to incubate new solutions, drive green building standards, and scale sustainable infrastructure cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
Find out how CISL is working with businesses, innovators, investors and policymakers to incubate new solutions, drive green building standards, and scale sustainable infrastructure cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
👋We're delighted to have welcomed a distinguished group of new Fellows and Senior Associates to our global network of sustainability leaders over the past year.
Read the full story www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Read the full story www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
July 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
👋We're delighted to have welcomed a distinguished group of new Fellows and Senior Associates to our global network of sustainability leaders over the past year.
Read the full story www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Read the full story www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
🌍 A major market disruption is coming to the global food system.
In our new paper, CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues: transformation isn’t optional—it’s inevitable.
Will we act fast enough to build a renewable food system, or face crisis?
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/OfnV50WuuR9
In our new paper, CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues: transformation isn’t optional—it’s inevitable.
Will we act fast enough to build a renewable food system, or face crisis?
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/OfnV50WuuR9
July 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🌍 A major market disruption is coming to the global food system.
In our new paper, CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues: transformation isn’t optional—it’s inevitable.
Will we act fast enough to build a renewable food system, or face crisis?
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/OfnV50WuuR9
In our new paper, CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues: transformation isn’t optional—it’s inevitable.
Will we act fast enough to build a renewable food system, or face crisis?
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/OfnV50WuuR9
🛒We need a systemic approach to local problems such as losing supermarket cafés, argues CISL Fellow @cazzerlee.bsky.social in her latest op ed for @thegrocer.bsky.social.
Read👉https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-opinion/losing-supermarket-cafes-means-losing-vital-community-spaces/705859.article
Read👉https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-opinion/losing-supermarket-cafes-means-losing-vital-community-spaces/705859.article
July 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🛒We need a systemic approach to local problems such as losing supermarket cafés, argues CISL Fellow @cazzerlee.bsky.social in her latest op ed for @thegrocer.bsky.social.
Read👉https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-opinion/losing-supermarket-cafes-means-losing-vital-community-spaces/705859.article
Read👉https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-opinion/losing-supermarket-cafes-means-losing-vital-community-spaces/705859.article
🚜🌾Land, food, and agriculture sit at the heart of society, playing a critical role in our economy, health and culture but also providing a powerful connection to climate and nature challenges.
Discover how CISL is helping transform these systems 👉https://ow.ly/plS250WswA4
Discover how CISL is helping transform these systems 👉https://ow.ly/plS250WswA4
July 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🚜🌾Land, food, and agriculture sit at the heart of society, playing a critical role in our economy, health and culture but also providing a powerful connection to climate and nature challenges.
Discover how CISL is helping transform these systems 👉https://ow.ly/plS250WswA4
Discover how CISL is helping transform these systems 👉https://ow.ly/plS250WswA4
📢👑We are pleased to announce our partnership with @thecrownestate.bsky.social to accelerate sustainable innovation and collaboration in the built environment and support nature recovery across the UK.
Read the full story here: www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-an...
Read the full story here: www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-an...
July 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢👑We are pleased to announce our partnership with @thecrownestate.bsky.social to accelerate sustainable innovation and collaboration in the built environment and support nature recovery across the UK.
Read the full story here: www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-an...
Read the full story here: www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-an...
📢 Announcing the Ibero-American Business Network for Green Growth: a coalition of 17 groups driving sustainable, inclusive growth in Latin America. Ahead of #COP30 in Brazil, we commit to a just, resilient energy transition. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/greenIABN
July 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📢 Announcing the Ibero-American Business Network for Green Growth: a coalition of 17 groups driving sustainable, inclusive growth in Latin America. Ahead of #COP30 in Brazil, we commit to a just, resilient energy transition. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/greenIABN
🔋The shift to electrify energy is accelerating, with innovations opening the door to a cheaper, efficient, cleaner & secure energy system.
🔦Find out how CISL is supporting this shift to accelerate #renewables, phase out #FossilFuels, & ensure access 👉 ow.ly/awtz50WpjMz
🔦Find out how CISL is supporting this shift to accelerate #renewables, phase out #FossilFuels, & ensure access 👉 ow.ly/awtz50WpjMz
July 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🔋The shift to electrify energy is accelerating, with innovations opening the door to a cheaper, efficient, cleaner & secure energy system.
🔦Find out how CISL is supporting this shift to accelerate #renewables, phase out #FossilFuels, & ensure access 👉 ow.ly/awtz50WpjMz
🔦Find out how CISL is supporting this shift to accelerate #renewables, phase out #FossilFuels, & ensure access 👉 ow.ly/awtz50WpjMz
🔓Blended finance is key to unlocking private capital for sustainable development in EMDEs—but risk perceptions, fragmentation & inefficiencies still block progress. Our new report explores barriers, solutions & pathways to scale.
🔗https://ow.ly/UPe850WntYw
🔗https://ow.ly/UPe850WntYw
July 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🔓Blended finance is key to unlocking private capital for sustainable development in EMDEs—but risk perceptions, fragmentation & inefficiencies still block progress. Our new report explores barriers, solutions & pathways to scale.
🔗https://ow.ly/UPe850WntYw
🔗https://ow.ly/UPe850WntYw
"Our report provides essential guidance for driving meaningful change, and offer[s] a strategic blueprint for organisations ready to lead.”
The latest CISL x BSI report covered in @yahoonews.com today 👉https://www.yahoo.com/news/circularity-tipping-point-trust-bsi-185352730.html?guccounter=1
The latest CISL x BSI report covered in @yahoonews.com today 👉https://www.yahoo.com/news/circularity-tipping-point-trust-bsi-185352730.html?guccounter=1
July 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"Our report provides essential guidance for driving meaningful change, and offer[s] a strategic blueprint for organisations ready to lead.”
The latest CISL x BSI report covered in @yahoonews.com today 👉https://www.yahoo.com/news/circularity-tipping-point-trust-bsi-185352730.html?guccounter=1
The latest CISL x BSI report covered in @yahoonews.com today 👉https://www.yahoo.com/news/circularity-tipping-point-trust-bsi-185352730.html?guccounter=1
In partnership with BSI we've launched a global study exploring trust as the key to accelerating circularity.
Read the report 👉https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-resources/publications/tipping-point-building-trust-circular-economy
Explore the campaign 👉https://ow.ly/na7y50Wm8nI
Read the report 👉https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-resources/publications/tipping-point-building-trust-circular-economy
Explore the campaign 👉https://ow.ly/na7y50Wm8nI
July 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In partnership with BSI we've launched a global study exploring trust as the key to accelerating circularity.
Read the report 👉https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-resources/publications/tipping-point-building-trust-circular-economy
Explore the campaign 👉https://ow.ly/na7y50Wm8nI
Read the report 👉https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-resources/publications/tipping-point-building-trust-circular-economy
Explore the campaign 👉https://ow.ly/na7y50Wm8nI
The global economy's future hinges on what markets value—but real impact happens in key sectors and places.
Our new initiative, Transforming Systems, Sectors and Places, targets those sectors with the greatest ability to drive change. Learn more 👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
Our new initiative, Transforming Systems, Sectors and Places, targets those sectors with the greatest ability to drive change. Learn more 👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
Transforming Systems, Sectors and Places
The transformation of the global economy will be shaped by what markets value - but it’s what happens in specific sectors and places where impact counts and change needs to happen.
cisl.shorthandstories.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The global economy's future hinges on what markets value—but real impact happens in key sectors and places.
Our new initiative, Transforming Systems, Sectors and Places, targets those sectors with the greatest ability to drive change. Learn more 👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
Our new initiative, Transforming Systems, Sectors and Places, targets those sectors with the greatest ability to drive change. Learn more 👉 cisl.shorthandstories.com/transforming...
We were thrilled to host a roundtable at Goals House during #LCAW2025 with our CIO @jamestweeets.bsky.social
and co-host Rachel Barré, marking our new partnership with L'Oréal. We explored how to turn promising sustainability innovations into scalable global solutions. 🌍
and co-host Rachel Barré, marking our new partnership with L'Oréal. We explored how to turn promising sustainability innovations into scalable global solutions. 🌍
June 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We were thrilled to host a roundtable at Goals House during #LCAW2025 with our CIO @jamestweeets.bsky.social
and co-host Rachel Barré, marking our new partnership with L'Oréal. We explored how to turn promising sustainability innovations into scalable global solutions. 🌍
and co-host Rachel Barré, marking our new partnership with L'Oréal. We explored how to turn promising sustainability innovations into scalable global solutions. 🌍
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🗣️“We can do it because the economics are on our side... it’s so clear that this is the economic opportunity of the 21st century.”
At our #BusinessLeadersSummit2025 during #LCAW, we heard from Rt Hon Ed Miliband & Rt Hon Sarah Jones MP.
ow.ly/S6hq50WgYYj
At our #BusinessLeadersSummit2025 during #LCAW, we heard from Rt Hon Ed Miliband & Rt Hon Sarah Jones MP.
ow.ly/S6hq50WgYYj
June 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🗣️“We can do it because the economics are on our side... it’s so clear that this is the economic opportunity of the 21st century.”
At our #BusinessLeadersSummit2025 during #LCAW, we heard from Rt Hon Ed Miliband & Rt Hon Sarah Jones MP.
ow.ly/S6hq50WgYYj
At our #BusinessLeadersSummit2025 during #LCAW, we heard from Rt Hon Ed Miliband & Rt Hon Sarah Jones MP.
ow.ly/S6hq50WgYYj
🌿 New report: "Building Capacity to Identify & Assess Nature-Related Financial Risks" — a collab by our Centre for Sustainable Finance team, DBS, UOB, OCBC explores financial impacts of nature-related risks. Read → cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-res...
June 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🌿 New report: "Building Capacity to Identify & Assess Nature-Related Financial Risks" — a collab by our Centre for Sustainable Finance team, DBS, UOB, OCBC explores financial impacts of nature-related risks. Read → cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-res...