An institution within the University of Cambridge has adopted a bold new focus on sustainability leadership in a move that will build on its pioneering work with some of the world’s most senior business, public sector and civil society leaders on issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and poverty.

From today, the Cambridge Programme for Industry (CPI), which has offices in Brussels, Cape Town, Melbourne, New York and Seattle (as well as Cambridge), will be known as “The University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership”. HRH The Prince of Wales has become its Patron.

Over the last twenty years, the institution has become renowned for its ground-breaking international leadership seminars on sustainability and strategy, such as The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme (BEP) and the Climate Leadership Programme. There are now over 3000 alumni of the institution’s programmes in over 40 countries, many of whom credit the organisation for providing them with a much deeper understanding of global systems and the principles of sustainability, and inspiring them to take effective action.