For a number of years, many in the ‘mainstream’ investor community have rebuffed attempts to get them to take sustainability concerns into account in their investments,...
It is a quarter of a century since the Brundtland report outlined the concept of sustainable development—development that meets the needs of the present without compromising...
Mike Scott writes about how the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, perhaps wasn’t all as bad people have made out. “We recognise that the...
Things are not looking good for the global economy at the moment – the eurozone is in crisis, the Middle East remains a hotbed of discontent...
Mike Scott writes how there is little doubt that the UK’s attempts over the last year to get a grip on its solar incentives programme were...
Last week saw the incorporation of the UK’s Green Investment Bank (GIB) as a company, another step towards “the world’s first investment bank solely dedicated to...
Sustainable investment, ethical investment, socially responsible investment – call it what you will; it is what the veteran investment guru Matthew Kiernan calls “investing as if...