What We Do

Going beyond corporate social responsibility or sustainability training, CPSL convenes corporate and policy leaders to deepen their shared understanding of sustainable business and to catalyse leadership for change.

The 2°C Challenge Communiqué calls on governments to break the deadlock in the international negotiations and take the necessary action at a national level to ensure a successful transition to green growth and a climate resilient economy.

Starting with the negotiations in Bali in 2007, previous Communiqués quickly gained wide business and NGO support, with 950 companies endorsing its message of support for an "ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change" before the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. This year, business leaders emphasise that the window of opportunity to stabilise warming to 2°C "has almost closed".

A video describing the ClimateWise initiative, the global insurance industry’s leadership group on climate change.

This video summarises the proceedings of the St James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium, which brought together 19 Laureates and over 40 world experts in climate change.

CPSL hosted The Oasis in Durban throughout the COP17 conference. We were delighted with the success of our daily COPpuccino interviews, which have been filmed and edited to short clips and are available on YouTube. Guests on the COPpuccinos included Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, two ministers and a number of internally renowned experts.

Polly Courtice, Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), talks about Britain through her eyes and the contribution CPSL makes.

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Professor Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge talks about the benefits of enrolling on CPSL's Master of Studies (MSt) in Sustainability Leadership.

Faculty from The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP) talk about what is unique about BSP.

Mike Peirce, Director, Strategy and Communications, CPSL, talks about sustainability education at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environmen, Oxford.

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In this video, Professor Melissa Lane talks about values and leadership as part of the World Bank Sustainable Development Leadership Customised Programme, in July 2010.

Climate Leadership Programme (CLP) delegates from GlaxoSmithKline, GE, J Sainsbury’s, Swire Properties and Telefónica talk about the benefits of the programme.

Natasha Walji from Google talks about the being a member of the Master of Studies (MSt) in Sustainability Leadership cohort.

Ann Dowling, Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge, talks about CPSL, the University of Cambridge and Sustainable Futures.

The Cambridge Sustainability Network is Cambridge’s international network of sustainability leaders from across the world. It brings together over 4,000 senior leaders and leading practitioners from across sectors and regions, representing business, the public sector and civil society.

Climate Leadership Programme (CLP) delegates from GlaxoSmithKline, GE, J Sainsbury’s, Swire Properties and Telefónica talk about the benefits of the programme.