CPSL Thought Leadership

Peter Willis, the South African Director of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, was recently interviewed by Chris Whitfield for GIBS FN. They spoke about the importance of a sustainability strategy.he “Actually the way we frame it is we are talking about the sustainabilty of the human project.” Click here to download Part... [Read more]

SA has no detailed climate change policy, as the government acknowledges. It is too late to develop one before next month’s Copenhagen conference. This is disappointing, given that SA is a Group of 20 economy and the world’s 13th-biggest CO² emitter, but not fatal as long as detailed, informed policy measures are in the pipeline. Most troubling... [Read more]

Regular readers may be a little surprised by this column. I am regularly arguing that the science shows we are inevitably approaching, or may have past, a tipping point where widespread, rolling ecological and economic crises take hold. But there’s another critical tipping point, of a very different character – where the world’s political and... [Read more]