A leading firm in clean energy investment is hosting an invitation-only event during National Ethical Investment Week. The event will explore a future vision with guest...
Arctic summer ice cover reaches its lowest extent since records began. Antarctic land ice is being lost and those losses are accelerating. Forest cover has fallen...
In a speech that was light on policies in general and sustainable policies specifically, Ed Miliband made one comment very early on that resonated at Blue...
Readers of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2 to the aficionados) will know the significance of 42. When the super computer Deep Thought is...
£25,000. It seems quite a lot of money. And it is a lot of money, by most people’s standards. Why are we looking for this amount...
In our month-long run up to National Ethical Investment Week 2012 (October 14-20), Simon Leadbetter asks, what’s in a name? Ever since the idea behind Blue...
Twenty-five years ago today (September 18, 1987), US secretary of state George Shultz and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze agreed the principles of the Intermediate Range...
Crowdfunding, or crowd-financing, is a very simple model. Rather than ask a small number of people for a large investment in an enterprise or project, ask...
Fifty years ago today, JFK made his seminal “we choose to go to the moon” speech at Rice University. Less than a decade later, Neil Armstrong made “one small...
The fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the starkest symbols of Soviet oppression, heralded the end of socialism. The collapse of Lehman Brothers will probably...
Yesterday the news broke that News Corporation was to set up a global ethics team at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, and in the wake of...
UNPRI is a set of six aspirational and voluntary principles, which we have explored over the last nine days. As more and more asset owners and...
The sixth principle states that signatories will “each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles.” While principle three dealt with disclosure concerning companies...
The fifth principle states that signatories will “work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles.” In any emerging trend, it is often beneficial that...
The fourth principle states that signatories will “promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry.” At time of publishing the following UK asset...