Since founding the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership in 1988, Polly Courtice has guided thousands of business leaders to more sustainable business practices. While the Institute no longer has to convince corporate leaders of the importance of these issues, the biggest challenge the Institute faces today is how to scale up solutions quickly enough to address increasing environmental and climate threats.

Join Professor Buzz Thompson and Polly Courtice to hear more about the Institute’s projects with businesses, policymakers, and financial institutions to scale up and accelerate solutions for a sustainable economy. Dame Courtice also discusses how COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the flaws in global supply chain assumptions while also providing the opportunity to think more deeply about the role the corporate sector can play in decarbonizing the global economy, protecting and restoring nature, and building more inclusive and resilient societies.