Local elections preview: Labour
Struggling to decide who to vote for in the local elections on Thursday May 2? Don’t worry, as all this week, Blue & Green Tomorrow is outlining the energy, environment and investment credentials of all five major parties. For a full list of local authorities that are voting, and for...
Responsible investment terms: what is norms-based screening?
We have previously explored what socially responsible investment (SRI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) are. But how do investors know if a company is behaving responsibly? Which are the tools to assess a company’s commitment to ethical standards? This is when norms-based screening comes into force. This term indicates...
Fossil fuel firms are failing to address the low-carbon imperative
Chris Monks, lead researcher for environmental management at EIRIS, reflects on the latest Unburnable Carbon report by Carbon Tracker and the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute. The overvaluing of assets based on an underestimation of associated risk in the carbon bubble report clearly draws strong parallels with...
Encouraging pension funds to divest from land grabbing activities
Friends of the Earth is running an ethical pension campaign to encourage investors to ask their providers if they invest in land grabbing activities. Emma Websdale spoke with campaigner Kirtana Chandrasekaran to discuss why it is such an important issue. According to Friends of the Earth, land grabs are on...
Local elections preview: The Conservatives
Struggling to decide who to vote for in the local elections on Thursday May 2? Don’t worry, as all this week, Blue & Green Tomorrow will be outlining the energy, environment and investment credentials of all five major parties. For a full list of local authorities that are voting,...
On this day in 2010: BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Three years ago today, the world experienced the largest oil spill in history, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, releasing 5m barrels of oil into the surrounding environment. One year later, a US court found the British oil giant guilty of negligence. It...
Articles you may have missed: April 12-18
These are the articles that have attracted the most interest on our site in the past week, and we’re republishing the links here to ensure you don’t miss out. A week ago today, we published an article by Ecology Building Society’s Anna Laycock, who wrote how saving the world and...
TED talks: how to expose the corrupt – Peter Eigen
Peter Eigen is an expert in corporate corruption. That is, helping to expose it. A former World Bank director, he has worked in economic development for a quarter of a century. Transparency International, the NGO founded by Eigen in 1993, describes corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for...
Swimming against the tide: ethical banks as countermovement
The recent financial crisis laid bare the problems of our current capitalist economy, which is increasingly dominated by financial interests. Investments in the real economy are assessed as to the risk they pose to, and the financial returns they achieve for investors. The impact of economic activity on the...
Ethical IFA of the week: Ethical Futures
There are plenty of independent financial advisers (IFAs) across the country who give advice on ethical and environmental investments. Our job is to tell you about them. Ethical Futures was established in 2005 by financial advisers Julian Parrott and Martin Wight. Based in Edinburgh and with clients throughout Scotland...
‘You want us to produce one of those corporate socialist reports?!’
Seb Beloe, partner and head of sustainability research at WHEB Asset Management, looks back at the history of sustainability reporting to see how it has evolved. “You want us to produce one of those corporate socialist reports?!” This incredulous response, from the CEO of a large US conglomerate, may...
The growth, drivers and choice behind ethical investment
Mark Robertson recently left his post as head of communications at responsible investment research firm EIRIS. Here, in a valedictory article that originally appeared in The Guide to Ethical Funds 2013, he looks back on the rise in prominence of sustainable investment. 2013 marks 30 years since EIRIS was...
In the business of ‘investing for generations’
“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.” This sentence, from Barack Obama’s second inauguration speech in January, was a welcome – if a little overdue – call to arms in the fight against...
Reflections on a debate: has CSR reached its sell-by date?
As media partner to Monday’s debate, we had thought our contribution would have been sitting in the audience tweeting, taking notes and slipping away at the end if anything urgent had arisen. This was not to be the case as one of the panellists was unable to attend and...
How old is the climate change debate?
A lot of people have fallen into believing that climate change is an issue raised in the very latter part of the 20th century. In fact, climate change has been well known by scientists and been in the public domain for over 189 years. Climate change is a term...
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