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We work with partners to share, value and showcase the role and power of business schools in meaningfully taking action to address the climate emergency.

At the United Nations Climate Conference, COP26, in Glasgow in November 2021 eight leading European business schools joined together to collaborate in supporting business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency.

The founding members of Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) are Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, INSEAD, International Institute for Management Development and London Business School. Collectively, we train more than 55,000 students and executives per year, and are stewards of alumni bodies in excess of 400,000 people.  

At COP27 in 2022 six leading African business schools joined the Business Schools for Climate Leadership community. The Cairo Declaration for Business Schools for Climate Leadership Africa (BS4CL Africa) recognised the critical role higher education can play in addressing climate change. The African Chapter of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) includes: the School of Business at The American University in Cairo, ESCA Ecole de Management in Morocco, the Institute of Business Science in South Africa, Lagos Business School in Nigeria, the School of Tourism and Hospitality at Strathmore University in Kenya and Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa

In December 2023, at COP28 in Dubai our community expanded yet again to include eight distinguished PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Business Schools from the Middle East: University of Dubai, Canadian University Dubai, Zayed University, Hult International Business School, American University of Beirut, American University of Kuwait, Qatar University, and Sultan Qaboos University. 

Reimagine is a fascinating podcast about people who are inventing the future. Peter Drobac, the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship meets the social entrepreneurs who see things differently.

During the Covid-19 pandemic we ran a special series of events tackling the big challenges that business faces and looking at the world we want to build as we emerge from the pandemic and an economic crisis. The webinars ranged from asking how capital markets can take sustainability to the next level to young people setting the agenda on the Race to Zero in transport and fossil fuels and food and agriculture. 

The business playbook: How to declare a climate emergency and take climate action launched at COP25. Developed in partnership with B Lab UK and the B Team, this tool provides case studies and practical steps businesses can take to address the climate emergency.