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...
Budget 2013: Osborne is keeping the UK ‘hooked to fossil fuels’, campaigners say
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that George Osborne is ignoring the vast potential of the UK’s wind, wave and solar resources, by instead pushing investment in “dirty” energy such as shale gas and North Sea oil. It says that the UK should plan to invest...
‘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...
On this day in 1967: the Torrey Canyon tanker spill
Forty-six years ago today, over 10,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the supertanker Torrey Canyon and into waters just off the south-west coast of England – in what was only the fourth spill in history. Nowadays, many more than this number occur every single year. Despite the Torrey...
Defenders of a free press are being dishonest
Lord Justice Leveson’s epic inquiry and report laid out a clear route to a self-regulated press underpinned by statute. It had flaws, but any solution would. Despite promising to implement anything but a “bonkers” plan, the prime minister has ruled out the recommended statutory underpinning, opting instead for a...
Your budget: tell us what you want to see
George Osborne is set to give his 2013 budget speech next Wednesday, March 20 – and now’s your chance to tell us what you want the chancellor to say. We described last year’s budget as “unsustainable”, and questioned why the environment wasn’t given high importance by the so-called “greenest government ever“. This...
Haïdar El Ali: leading Africa’s green political charge
After kicking off this series profiling environmentally-minded politicians yesterday with Marina Silva of Brazil, Charlie Wood writes about Haïdar El Ali, the Senegalese ecology minister, who is at the forefront of the Africa’s green movement. An achingly slow green revolution has been burgeoning in Africa over the last 40...
Government admits to breaching legal air quality limits
The government has admitted that in 15 regions across the UK, air quality laws will be breached come 2020, in a Supreme Court hearing lodged by environmental law firm Client Earth. Whilst confessing that legal limits will be broken, the government also claimed that the laws are “unrealistically strict”....
Government in court over air pollution ‘scandal’
A case from environmental law firm Client Earth against the government over its failure to meet legal limits for air quality will be heard today by the Supreme Court. A win could force the government to take drastic action reduce UK air pollution. The case pushed forward by Client...
Report ‘ends comfortable myths about poverty’
The media has created myths that blame the most vulnerable people for our economic and societal woes by twisting and misusing statistics, according to a hard-hitting report from a group of churches. The report, entitled The lies we tell ourselves: ending comfortable myths about poverty, was published on Friday by...
Scotland could be go-to place for ethical banking and Islamic finance
Recent figures from the Islamic Finance Council UK (IFC) show that more than 50% of Scots want to see some of their money invested using green or ethical criteria – meaning the country has an opportunity to become a hub for ethical finance. The IFC invited governmental representatives, as...
Sustainable investment needs to be ‘core to how we live our lives’
Joe Keefe, president and CEO of US firm PAX World Management, has written a piece for the Huffington Post about the importance of sustainable investment in all aspects of life. Speaking about investment in fossil fuels, Keefe says there are three general approaches: to continue to invest (A), to...
Honesty, subtlety and complexity in science reporting
Newsflash: science is complicated. A lot of jobs, being a politician or columnist for example, can be mastered with very little hard work. This is not true of postgraduate science. Obviously natural flair matters and the best of those two aforementioned ‘professions’ have that flair in spades. But science...
E.ON revealed to have called for ‘dissuasive’ sentences for eco-activists
Energy company E.ON, referring to a group of activists due to be sentenced for aggravated trespass at its Kingsnorth coal power station, has warned that sentences should try to avoid accidents in the future. Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) papers show Paul Golby, chairman and CEO of...
Ofgem: increased energy imports could raise bills
Energy regulator Ofgem warned yesterday that consumers will face higher bills because of the decline of gas produced in the UK – meaning more will have to be imported in the coming years. Chief executive Alistair Buchanan said plans to renovate old, polluting power stations will cause a fall...
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