A sustainable versus unsustainable recovery
This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for more effort by the UK government to stimulate a strong and sustainable recovery. Simon Leadbetter lays out what would define a sustainable recovery. A sustainable recovery is one that creates a viable economy over the long-term, not short-term growth in time...
On this day in 2006: Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth premieres at Sundance Film Festival
Seven years ago today, former US vice-president Al Gore’s documentary film about global warming – An Inconvenient Truth – premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, it has become one of highest grossing documentaries of all time, won two Academy Awards and turned into a seminal film for the...
L’investissement responsable: a glance at France’s responsible investment market
They have spectacular architecture, some of history’s finest artists and produce over 240 types of cheese. And when it comes to sustainable and responsible investment (SRI), our neighbours across the Channel in France are very much key players. What does SRI mean? Is it socially responsible investment or sustainable...
Entrepreneurs selected for social investment project
A group of 30 social entrepreneurs have been selected to take part in Big Venture Challenge – an “investment accelerator” that looks to improve the way investors put their money into organisations that focus on delivering social benefits. Social enterprise foundation UnLtd selected the final 30 from 140 applicants....
Pension fund trade body launches responsible investment guide
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has launched a guide to responsible investment, which encourage its members to take factors other than financial returns into account when investing. NAPF members, who collectively manage £900 billion worth of assets, are invited in the guide to integrate environmental, social and...
Clean energy can save UK £45bn and slash emissions, says climate watchdog
Investing in clean energy will bring about significant financial benefits, to the tune of around £1,600 per UK household, while also helping slash greenhouse gas emissions, according to the government’s official climate change advisers. The Committee on Climate Change’s latest report, Next steps on Electricity Market Reform – securing...
Responsible investment can help crack down on tax avoidance
This week, two corporate giants, Amazon and HSBC, hold their AGMs and although the worlds of the internet and investment may be very different, their shareholders are raising the same concern: that aggressive tax avoidance strategies may be hurting the long-term value of the company. Amazon has been criticised...
What’s gone wrong with finance?
In the last 12 months, the mainstream banks have become embroiled in yet more scandals, crises and irresponsibility. In an extract from a recent talk, Ecology Building Society chief executive Paul Ellis investigates the scale of their troubles, and ponders why the current system is unsustainable. How do you...
Introducing: The Guide to Limitless Clean Energy 2013
There’s a quote by Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, the motion picture camera and many other things, about renewable energy. Speaking in 1931, he said, “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of...
The Guide to Limitless Clean Energy 2013
There’s a quote by Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, the motion picture camera and many other things, about renewable energy. Speaking in 1931, he said, “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of...
Al Gore: sustainability adds realism to investment
Assessing investment using an environmental, social and governance (ESG) lens gives you a much “fuller” image, according to former US vice-president Al Gore. Using light as his analogy, Gore explained how mainstream investors focus value: a narrow part of the spectrum. According to Bloomberg, he told 200 delegates at...
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Report seeks to bridge communication gap between farmers and renewables
A recent survey said that while 95% of farmers believe that renewable energy plays a vital role in the UK’s farming future, 42% said they were confused about their options. So in an effort to bridge the communications gap, a cleantech agency has released an instructional report. The study...
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...
Is Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of investment research an ‘open-minded’ climate sceptic?
Dictionaries define research as, “The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.” By any standard, impartial research into climate change has set a very high bar in proving human causation. Climate change will affect investment performance. When the world’s...
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