Budget 2013: green measures neglected as Osborne favours fracking
George Osborne offered tax breaks for shale gas developments, scrapped a rise in fuel duty and gave backing to more new roads, in a budget statement this afternoon that sent out little support to the sustainability sector. The statement, Osborne’s fourth as chancellor of the exchequer, included only a...
Budget 2013: renewables industry expects ‘measures to boost investment’
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has said it wants George Osborne to say that renewable energy will play a key role in creating jobs and encouraging economic growth in the UK, when he reveals his 2013 budget this afternoon. Referring to Lord Heseltine’s No Stone Unturned report about creating conditions...
Budget 2013: green businesses call for sustainable ISA incentives
George Osborne could “mobilise billions for investment in sustainable sectors” by installing tax incentives for green ISAs, according to two leading sustainable finance organisations. The chancellor will reveal the Treasury’s spending plans for the coming year in a speech in the House of Commons at 12.30pm today, and both ethical...
Metric launched to help investors compare sustainability of firms
A collaborative project by sustainable investment specialists RobecoSAM and climate change reporting platform the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is set to make it easier for investors to compare information about different companies’ sustainability. RobecoSAM, which recently co-developed the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index, will be asking businesses about...
Charity Bank drops charity status and sets sight on sustainable growth
One of the UK ethical banking sector’s biggest names, Charity Bank, is to drop its status as a registered charity in an effort to boost its lending to the charitable and social sectors. The shake-up comes after new banking regulations made it difficult for the organisation to operate as...
Melbourne picked as host of global ethical banking conference in 2014
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) has announced that Melbourne, Australia, will host its ethical banking conference next year. Twenty-two of the world’s leading sustainable banks from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin and North America will attend the week-long annual general meeting (AGM) in 2014, hosted by Australian-owned...
‘The government just needs to stop politicking and meddling in renewables’
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 take place on Thursday in London, and are preceded this year by a conference for the first time. Alex Blackburne caught up with one of last year’s winners – Adrian Reed, a managing director at Altium Capital, which won Advisory Firm of...
Investors down under call for ethical investment
Forty per cent of investors from Australia and New Zealand have said that their superannuation funds should take into account environmental and ethical impacts, according to a survey. The research, conducted by The Australia Institute, shows that more of the countries’ investors want their fund managers to incorporate these...
TED talks: who controls the world? – James B Glattfelder
After the publication of our Guide to Ownership 2013 today, it seems only right that in this week’s featured TED talk, James B Glattfelder talks about how the natural environment’s interconnected systems need to be transferred to the field of economics. In the video below, Glattfelder, a Swiss physicist, says,...
Reductions in solar costs has boosted clean energy deployment
The falling costs of clean energy, particularly solar PV, have boosted the widespread deployment of renewables technologies, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2013 report. The study, released on Tuesday by cleantech research firm Clean Edge, shows that solar PV has experienced a rapid decline in cost. Only five...
Introducing: The Guide to Ownership 2013
Active ownership is one of the most crucial parts of investment and long-term wealth creation. And communicating that very fact is the reason we’ve published this Guide to Ownership. A parliamentary reception took place earlier this week to celebrate Ownership Day – an event co-ordinated by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance...
The Guide to Ownership 2013
Active ownership is one of the most crucial parts of investment and long-term wealth creation. And communicating that very fact is the reason we’ve published this Guide to Ownership. A parliamentary reception took place earlier this week to celebrate Ownership Day – an event co-ordinated by the UK Sustainable Investment and...
Values-based banks call for transparency, sustainability and diversity
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a coalition of some of the world’s foremost values-driven banks, has released the Berlin declaration – a three-step guide that aims to help shift the financial system onto a more sustainable, long-term footing. Written up at the network’s annual meeting in...
Why share ownership is better than share rental
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) launched a new initiative, Ownership Day, with a parliamentary reception on Tuesday. Here, George Latham, managing parter at WHEB Asset Management, writes how taking ownership of shares is much more beneficial than simply holding them. ‘Ownership’ is another term we now...
Pope Francis: assuming responsibility for nature?
The world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have a new leader, after Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis I in an historic ceremony at the Vatican last night. The new pope must take a strong position on climate change and environmental degradation – but as luck would have it,...
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