Big business needs to “ramp-up” its board-level understanding of built environment issues, such as dealing with problems related to carbon targets, a new report has warned....
After the wettest British winter since records began in 1910 caused severe flooding across the country, the Environment Agency has completed a “health check” of defences...
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage firms, such companies are usually high potential high-risk. Investors perceive long-term growth for their investment with an exit...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report has implications for us all. But given it warns of the unsustainability of our approach to energy...
Pitzer College, California, has said it will have divested $125m (£74m) worth of holdings in fossil fuel companies by the end of the year – a...
Investment in the clean energy grew 14% to $61 billion (£36 billion) in the first quarter of 2014, with the offshore wind, solar and energy efficiency...
Lord Myners, who resigned from the Co-operative Group last week, has defended his review into the governance structure of the organisation, saying he wants to “protect...
What are the odds that climate change is the work of natural processes, rather than human activity? As small as one in a thousand, according to...
New data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past...
Britain is an “extremely attractive” place for investment in renewable energy, the energy minister Greg Barker has said. Speaking ahead of the release of the UN...
British drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been accused of bribing doctors to promote its products in Lodz, Poland. The allegations follow similar claims in China last...
Researchers have discovered that acidification caused by the presence of carbon dioxide (CO2) in oceans makes fish “bolder” and less fearful of predators, potentially disrupting the...
The chancellor George Osborne has unveiled tougher measures to crack down on people hiding their money in overseas accounts in order to avoid paying income tax...
The emergence of ‘super-rich’ Africans has been met with the development of western-style philanthropy, a new report has found. The study, from the African Grantmakers Network...
A new survey has revealed that almost two-thirds of Britons would choose to live near a wind farm over a fracking site. The findings have led...