Bruce Davis, Abundance: ‘we can do something different with money’
After helping launch peer-to-peer lending site Zopa 10 years ago, Bruce Davis is now co-founder of renewable energy platform Abundance Generation. Here, in an extract from a recent talk, he looks at why alternative finance is better for everyone. It’s surprising how long it’s taken for people to get...
CSR is about ‘having mechanisms to fix market inequalities or injustices’
On April 15, an event in London will question whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) has reached its sell-by date. Hosted and produced by Responsible 100, Be Inspired Films and Kyocera Document Solutions, the interactive panel discussion forms part of Business in the Community’s Responsible Business Week 2013. In the run-up to April 15,...
Are capitalism and conservation incompatible?
An article we wrote in February, Free markets need to be free, prompted a little Twitter debate when published. There is the honestly and strongly held belief that free markets are the implacable foe of sustainability. The demands of a free market economy are incompatible with the needs of viable...
Time to offload the high-risk, low-return carbon assets
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors of oil and coal assets face a swiftly deteriorating deal. In a landscape of increasing operative and regulatory risks and low interest rates,...
MPs deem global companies’ tax avoidance as ‘an insult to British businesses’
Starbucks, Amazon and Google are among those to be criticised for avoiding tax in a report published by the House of Commons’ public accounts committee. The report showed how global companies were able to “exploit” both national and international tax schemes in order to pay as little corporation tax...
Labour’s legally-binding financial returns would wreck sustainable investment
Labour leader Ed Miliband has threatened to break up big banks and cap pension charges at his party’s annual conference, but it’s his stance on imposing a legally-binding return threshold on financial services firms that will significantly worry ethical investors. Miliband’s proposals would mean that pension funds and banks...
New Energy Awards 2012: an overview
At a time when it’s becoming increasingly vital to embrace alternative sources of energy, the fifth annual New Energy Awards takes place at the Science Museum on March 29, and it’s set to be a corker. “Recognising commitment to alternative sources of energy” is the awards’ tagline, and just a...
EIRIS launches system to measure sustainability performance
EIRIS, a company that has been doing sustainable and ethical research for nearly 30 years, has distilled all of its experience into a new sustainability rating service. EIRIS research has always focused on key environmental, social and corproate governance (ESG) risk areas, such as human rights, climate change, biodiversity, the...
Ernst & Young survey highlights corporate sustainability gulf
A survey conducted by professional services firm, Ernst & Young, has found that companies in the US are missing out on potentially lucrative financial rewards, simply because of a lack of collaboration between their sustainability and tax departments. The survey, called Working Together: Linking sustainability and tax to...
Fighting pollution on Britain’s beaches
The Marine Conservation Society and Marks & Spencer are teaming up to help clean up Britain’s beaches and protect the seas. The high street retailer is encouraging its customers to sign up and help out the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) to stop fishing nets, ropes and bottles from polluting the...
Guinness launches £10m renewable energy investment fund
Guinness Asset Management has launched a new Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fund that will seek opportunities in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The fund is the third of its kind to be unveiled by the investment management company, and will “target attractive risk-weighted returns by making investments in Sustainable Infrastructure...
World must act against land grabbing extractive industries
A report led by the Gaia Foundation claims that the world is edging towards destruction because of a current trend in land grabbing for mining. Land grabbing is a practice common in the mining, coal and oil industries that involves private investors buying out huge plots of land for the...
RenewableUK and Unite rally together in push for green jobs
RenewableUK, the trade and professional body for the wind, wave and tidal industry, has joined forces with Britain’s largest union, Unite, in a bid to create 120,000 jobs in the green energy sector. The two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding – a legal document detailing the...
Enslaved by free markets
Promising freedom to a select few, free markets appear to have enslaved the vast majority. Is this what we wanted? As Fairtrade Fortnight begins, Simon Leadbetter explores what free markets have ever done for us. Julian Parrott’s recent article poured scorn on the bloated excesses of capitalism. Some readers...
Barclays’ half billion “aggressive” tax avoidance
Just days before the Move Your Money Month campaign begins, Barclays Bank has given its customers as good a reason as any to consider switching to a more ethical and socially responsible alternative. The Government has decided to clampdown on “two aggressive tax avoidance schemes” recently...
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