Solar project wins Facebook competition
Solar crowdfunding website SunFunder has been announced as the winner of the Cleantech Goes Social competition, organised and run by Facebook and Cleantech Group. After being named as one of the three finalists earlier this month, the organisation beat off the competition to scoop the $25,000 prize. Its development will now...
Big five banks’ profits swallowed up by fines
The big five UK banks managed to nullify their collective 45% increase in profits in 2012, due to PPI mis-selling, hefty fines and internal mistakes, according to a KPMG report. The BBC reports that the accountancy giant’s study says Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Standard...
Nominations open for FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards 2013
Some of the world’s leading sustainability-minded financial institutions will be honoured by The Financial Times (FT) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on June 13, when the 8th annual FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards take place. Financiers, investors and business leaders will flock to the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel...
WWF: government aviation framework looks to ‘wish away’ climate change impact
The government has launched the aviation policy framework – a document that aims to strengthen the industry by tackling its environmental footprint. The framework looks at ways to support aviation, which represents £18 billion of the UK’s economy and has been highlighted as a big driver of growth. “This...
Lawsuit filed against EPA over ongoing bee deaths
A group of beekeepers and environmentalists are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to curb the use of insecticides that research has shown significantly reduce bee populations. Beyond Pesticides, the Centre for Food Safety and the Pesticide Action Network are some of the consumer groups,...
Report warns investors to consider financial impact of climate change
Climate change and extreme weather conditions pose huge risks to investors, so mitigation strategies are necessary to avoid future losses, according to a report by a network of institutional investors. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), based in Australia and New Zealand, presented three reports about climate risks...
UN urged to embrace sustainable development goals
Scientists have argued that world leaders need to introduce six new sustainable development goals (SDGs) to achieve global sustainability. Following UN meetings earlier this month, a study in the journal Nature by a group of international scientists has argued that the millennium development goals (MDGs) are no longer enough to alleviate...
Government accused of ‘obscuring the truth’ by school climate change petition
Over 21,000 people have signed a petition, created by a 15-year-old girl, against national curriculum changes that will prevent climate change from being taught to under-14s. Esha Marwaha from West London set up the campaign in order to allow schools to continue teaching climate change in key stages 1,...
Articles you may have missed: March 15-21
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. News that climate change is going to be removed from the national curriculum was Blue & Green Tomorrow’s most-read article...
Framework launched to boost human rights awareness among investment firms
A new set of guidelines have been launched in order to help investment firms boost the incorporation of human rights into a company’s business goals. Written collaboratively by the Institute for Human Rights and Business, the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility and Calvert Investments, the framework aims to help...
Ecology scoops top gong at New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013
Ecology Building Society was last night named Company of the Year at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013, for its “committed” work in sustainable finance. The Yorkshire-based organisation, which featured in Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Sustainable Banking 2012, won Financier of the Year and then received...
World Water Day: why we need to tackle water poverty
March 22 is World Water Day, an annual event that supports global sustainable water management and raises awareness of the planet’s ever-increasing dependence on clean water. With more mobile phones on Earth than clean toilets, solving the water development dilemma has never been more important. According to UN statistics...
World Water Day: long-term opportunities in investing in water
Sustainable investment house Impax Asset Management has said that investors should be looking at how to tackle future water-related challenges, as part of World Water Day 2013. Impax, a specialist in resource efficiency and cleantech investment, commented on the long-term environmental, social and financial benefits of managing water resources...
Triodos Bank reaches £500m sustainable lending landmark
Dedicated ethical bank Triodos has revealed it has reached a financial milestone, after breaking the £500m barrier in its lending to sustainable businesses and organisations. Following a 15% increase in lending activity last year, Triodos’ UK arm said it had lent £486m by the end of 2012 – a...
Co-op Group records loss after ‘challenging’ year
The Co-operative Group has revealed that its retail arm and core banking section delivered figures that met its expectations and that it reduced its carbon emissions in 2012. But losses in non-core banking have adversely affected the organisation’s profits. Preliminary results show that its core banking division made profits...
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