🦋 Climate change and nature loss pose the greatest risk to humanity, according to the World Economic Forum 2024 Global Risks Report. A partial collapse of ecosystem services could reduce global GDP by US$2.7 trillion by 2030. A step-change is needed to reset our relationship with nature. This is a core leadership challenge for business, finance and governments. We need an approach that integrates nature into the fabric of our economic system and is driven by a shared vision of growth that values natural resources and the impact of our activities on them. Today, ahead of #COP16, we're launching our campaign, Restoring Nature: Reimagining Growth, activating leadership to reshape our economies and rebuild markets so they properly value, respect, protect and restore nature. Nature needs to be central to the story of how we build future prosperity for all. 👉Visit our campaign hub to find out more: https://lnkd.in/e3Gayk-j #CISLNature #Nature #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth Lindsay Hooper, Eliot Whittington, Martin Porter, Richard Calland, James Cole, Anna Nitch-Smith Beverley Cornaby, Ben Kellard, Dr Nina Seega, Alice Spencer, Adele Williams, Ursula Woodburn
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
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CISL, part of the University of Cambridge, develops leadership and solutions for a sustainable economy.
About us
CISL is an impact-led institute within the University of Cambridge that activates leadership globally to transform economies for people, nature and climate. Through its global network and hubs in Cambridge, Cape Town and Brussels, CISL works with leaders and innovators across business, finance and government to accelerate action for a sustainable future. Trusted since 1988 for its rigour and pioneering commitment to learning and collaboration, the Institute creates safe spaces to challenge and support those with the power to act.
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The Periclès Building
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🗨️ Finishing our series of events looking ahead towards #COP16 and #COP29, yesterday we hosted a panel discussion with Cambridge Zero Policy Forum at the Entopia Building. CISL’s interim CEO, Lindsay Hooper, moderated a panel of expert speakers: - David Moran (UK Climate Adviser, Caspian Policy Center, and former COP26 UK Regional Climate and Energy Ambassador for Europe and Central Asia) - Stephen Davison (Deputy Director, Cambridge Zero and Higher Education Lead for the Climate Champions Team) - Dr Joanna Depledge (Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG)) - Millie May (Political Sciences BSc student, University of Cambridge, ActNow Film Assistant and COP28 Delegate for Young European Leadership (YEL)). 👉 How did it go? https://lnkd.in/euaC64JW #CISLNature #NaturePositive #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth
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#COP16Colombia, the #biodiversity COP, kicks off on 21 October. Are you going? We’ll see you there! Take a look at our events: 📆 24 Oct: Achieving #NaturePositive: how can we scale pivotal business model and financial system transformations? This workshop will be framed around research recently conducted at CISL. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5Q-ua9a 📆 25 Oct: Scaling Finance for Nature: Operationalising private commercial capital. There is a c$700 billion/year gap between current & required financing to meet 2030 targets of the GBF. Public & private finance have a central role to play. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ed9-9sTn 📆 25 Oct: Connecting for change: Business leadership for a #NaturePositive world. CISL will be co-hosting this invite-only networking event with Suzano, IUCN and WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Drinks and an array of Colombian dishes will be provided 😋 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHQMEqCe 📆 26 Oct: Accelerating innovation towards nature positive. CISL is pleased to host this panel event exploring the role innovation can play in meeting the goals of the GBF. 👉 https://lnkd.in/etpqaJAU 📆 26 Oct: The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)’s approach to scaling market capacity for nature-related assessments and disclosures. Dr Nina Seega of Centre for Sustainable Finance (CISL) will be speaking at this event. 👉 https://lnkd.in/etpqaJAU 📆 28 Oct: Just transformations for nature and people: taking knowledge, evidence and action to scale. This official side event is a collaboration between CISL, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute as primary partners + support from Cambridge Zero. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gRx3STeF 📆 30 Oct: Restoring nature, reimagining growth – building a new narrative for action. This panel discussion will focus on the systemic shifts needed in economic markets to achieve GBF targets. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5Q_DztA 🌎 Read more about #COP16 and what it means for people, nature and business here: https://lnkd.in/e8qmmsnQ You can also see details of all our events. Watch this space for more updates from Cali! #CISLNature #NaturePositive #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth
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🇨🇴 We’re proud to be going to #COP16Colombia, where we’ll join representatives from around the world to find biodiversity conservation solutions. Here’s how two Cambridge teams are hoping to make an impact on everything from finance to regenerating nature: 🌱 Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) works to activate leadership globally to transform economies for people, nature and climate. CISL is proud to be joining COP16 with partners and networks. This is a pivotal opportunity for leaders to set a bold pathway towards a nature positive future. CISL’s Director for Sustainable Finance, Dr Nina Seega and Chief Innovation Officer, James Cole will attend COP16 with a delegation from CISL and our partners from CCI. CISL's focus is on supporting leadership that will reshape economies and rebuild markets so they properly value, protect and restore nature. 🤝 Find CISL at these events: https://lnkd.in/eBsU8CFZ 🌱 Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a partnership between the University and 10 leading biodiversity conservation organisations. Isabelle Soskice, CCI's Head of Fundraising, and Executive Director Melissa Leach, will attend the event alongside several CCI partners, with the specific aim of amplifying their messages. Also attending is Chris Sandbrook, Professor of Conservation and Society at CCI partner, the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute. Together with the CISL, they will showcase how evidence-action linkages can protect nature, advancing the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework. 🤝 Attend the event: https://lnkd.in/ef42qghk #CambridgeForOurPlanet #CambridgeUniversity
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Join Dr Tanja Collavo and Dr Theo Hacking on Thursday 17 October for the first LinkedIn Live Meet the Directors webinar since applications opened for our Sustainable Business and Sustainable Built Environment part-time postgraduate programmes. Whether you’re passionate about building a sustainable future, driving change in business, or you're at the beginning of your sustainability journey, this webinar will equip you with what you need to know to start your application for 2025 entry. Here’s what you’ll gain: 🏗 In-depth insights into our Sustainable Built Environment programmes 💼 A comprehensive overview of our Sustainable Business programmes 💻 Expert guidance on writing a standout application ❓ Real-time answers to all your postgraduate programme questions #CISL #SustainabilityLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #SustainableBusiness #SustainableBuiltEnvironment #ProfessionalDevelopment #PostgraduateProgrammes #SustainabilityEducation
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🍃 We're proud to have collaborated on the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) briefing note, "From COP15 to COP16: Is the financial system on track?" It provides an update on how the financial sector is aligning with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), highlighting actions taken and challenges ahead. 👇 Explore how finance can drive the transformative change needed to achieve global biodiversity goals: https://bit.ly/3NmiRDz Contributors Dr Nina Seega Sara Taaffe #COP16 #BiodiversityFinance #CISLNature #NaturePositive #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth
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🍃Two years ago in Montreal, the world witnessed a landmark achievement: an ambitious global agreement to protect and restore nature by #2030. 🤝It was the first time that the private sector showed up in force at a nature summit. As part of this, over 400 companies with revenues totalling over $2 trillion asked policymakers to make nature disclosures mandatory. 🌲But, for all the talk and optimism, economy-wide solutions remain virtually non-existent. Business responses are often focused on small nature projects with insufficient focus on the market infrastructure and incentives needed to drive action at scale. Addressing these issues will require a different level of dialogue between the public and private sectors, going beyond platitudes to redesign markets, subsidies, and economic incentives. 💡This is why Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Institute for Sustainability Leadership is working with partners from across Europe on the A-Track project to tackle these systemic problems, looking at how to support and scale business models. 🚀Our two new reports, released today as part of the project, demonstrate how businesses and financial institutions can go beyond low return, piecemeal actions to systemic changes that incorporate nature and generate positive value for the environment and economy. 📖"Scaling finance for nature: barrier breakdown" and "Better business: rethinking value for nature positive outcomes" look at how scaling nature-positive-aligned business models must be adopted to halt and reverse nature loss and how private commercial capital can be used already today to reduce pressure on nature and enable these systemic changes. 👉Read the reports: https://lnkd.in/enp3-XtK These reports are the first in CISL's Restoring Nature campaign, which is activating leadership to reshape our economies and rebuild markets so they properly value, respect, protect and restore nature. These reports were written by Sara Taaffe (CISL), Corinne Martin (CISL), Robert Barker (CISL), with significant contributions from A-Track consortium partners Capitals Coalition UNEP-WCMC IDEEA group and TECNALIA Research & Innovation (Scaling Nature Finance) Anum Yousaf Sheikh with support from Sanna Markkanen, Edmund Dickens and Harry Greenfield (Better Business) at CISL. The authors are grateful for the contributions of Eliot Whittington, Beverley Cornaby, Ben Kellard, Sam Laakkonen, Jie Zhou and Jordan Viola (CISL); Guy Duke, Rosimeiry Portela, Graeme Nicholls and Tom McKenna (Capitals Coalition); Nadine McCormick (WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development) Fernando Círez Oto (TECNALIA Research & Innovation) #CISLNature #NaturePositive #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth #ATrack #NaturePositive #Sustainability #SustainableBusiness #SustainableFinance Lindsay Hooper Centre for Sustainable Finance (CISL)
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🍂“The crux of the problem is that it remains more profitable in the short term to destroy nature than to protect it.” Are businesses merely paying lip service while nature collapses around us? Our CEO Lindsay Hooper weighs in and provides her learnings on developing strong biodiversity strategies for systemic change in edie this week. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/eet77RtM CISL's Restoring Nature campaign activates leadership to reshape our economies and rebuild markets so they properly value, respect, protect and restore nature: https://lnkd.in/e3Gayk-j #CISLNature #NaturePositive #RestoringNature #ReimaginingGrowth
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💡 Our Director of Business Strategy, Ben Kellard will be speaking at Westminster Insight's ESG Reporting conference #ESGwm in London on Wednesday 16 October, discussing how to successfully integrate sustainable, purpose-driven processes in business. 🎟️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/e3RFchnp #CISLBusinessLeadership #BusinessLeadership #ChangingTheStory
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⚡ "Marketing is such a strategic, commercial function. It sits at the intersection of business and society; it is the engine room of the economy, the sibling of economics, and if we want to transform the economy, we need to transform the marketing that is driving it." - Charlie Thompson, Co-Convenor of CISL's "Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative" 8-week online course. Alexis Eyre and Paul Randle, CISL Alumni and Assessors, joined Charlie in a CISL Conversation about marketing's role in leading sustainable transformation. This event celebrated their "Sustainable Marketing" book. ⏰ Late registrations close on 16 October. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e3kQb5Fe #SustainableMarketing #Marketing #Sustainability #CISLBusinessLeadership #BusinessLeadership #ChangingTheStory ⚡