On November 23rd 2025, a group of activists representing ORCA tagged the office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the University of Cambridge’s premier greenwashing operation.
Through its deliberate attempts to greenwash the colonial actions of its partners – a coalition of major multinational polluters, imperialists, and arms companies, including British Petroleum, Coca Cola, and Rolls-Royce, CISL operates as a PR firm to capitulate to and justify the violent colonialism of some of the most vicious and destructive corporations in the capitalist economy. This includes profiteers of the apartheid regime in occupied Palestine, the genocide in Sudan and the Congo, and the facilitators of land-grabs in the Middle East and North Africa, with many of those companies having strong relationships with Donald Trump, Israel’s Likud party, and the Saudi royal family.
ORCA sees CISL for what it is, an attempt by capitalists and colonialists to cushion the blow of their murderous and imperialist actions in the Global South and for the university itself to hide its culpability in genocide and environmental devastation. There can be no “sustainability” while capitulating to tyrants, genocidaires, and oil barons.
For more detailed information on CISL’s shady dealings, see our campaign page CISL & Sustainable Lies.
