Business Schools for
Climate Leadership
Welcome to Business Schools for Climate Leadership
BS4CL
Welcome to Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL), a pioneering research and thought leadership partnership aimed at equipping current and future business leaders with the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the complex landscape of the climate crisis.
Launched at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 the BS4CL alliance brings together nine prestigious European business schools in a shared mission to generate, disseminate, and amplify evidence-based research, actionable insights, and thought leadership for corporate executives, students, educators, and policymakers who are at the forefront of driving the climate transition.
Business Schools taking coordinated action to prepare present and future business leaders for climate leadership
As leading European Business schools, the founding members have the responsability to accelerate business activities towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Global PhD Course: Organizing the Climate Transition
January 23, 2025 - April 3, 2025
Preparing the next generation of management, strategy, and organisation studies scholars for generating impactful, in-depth knowledge about and approaches to the challenges that organisations are currently facing as they navigate the climate transition.
Global PhD Course: Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability
February 4, 2025 - April 29, 2025
Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability seeks to be an important, timely, and catalytic development in the climate finance space designed to develop the next generation of scholars and educators in this field and to create a community of researchers in this field.
BS4CL Forum 2nd Edition
Saturday, June 1st, 2024 - INSEAD Europe Campus
Who pays for the climate transition? The role of business in driving solutions.
BS4CL brings together leading alumni from its eight schools to explore ways to leverage its aggregate alumni community to accelerate the climate transition. The focus of the 2024 conference is on financing the transition.
COP28 - Launch of BS4CL Middle East
Dec. 5th 2023 / COP 28-Green Zone, Greening Education Hub, Dubai
The initiative was officially launched during COP 28 by eight leading PRME Middle East Business Schools. The expansion of the Business Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) into the Middle East follows its success in Europe and Africa. It aims to adapt strategies to the region’s specific environmental and socio-economic challenges such as extreme temperatures, water scarcity, agricultural risks and economic dependence on fossil fuels.
Tapping the deep and broad expertise across BS4CL Schools to produce our Climate Leadership Toolkit for executives
Business Schools for Climate Leadership has put together this digital toolkit to help business leaders pose key questions and assess their readiness to act effectively to tackle this planetary emergency.