Lincolnshire is set to receive £30m investment from French-based oil and gas firm Total SA to investigate the county’s shale gas potential. Hydraulic fracking, or fracking, is...
Using GDP as the sole metric for prosperity is “woefully inadequate”, according to the Worldwatch Institute. Its latest report argues that most approaches to global economic...
Campaigners in London have called on major retail brands to condemn the violence displayed by police officials in Cambodia, where four people were shot during a...
Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future, by Michael Blowfield and Leo Johnson, outlines the steps required towards a more sustainable economy and prosperous society. Now’s your...
Julian Parrott, a partner at Edinburgh-based financial advisory firm Ethical Futures, gives advice to clients on sustainable, responsible and ethical investment. He talks to Blue &...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories from around the web every morning. We start with our picks from Blue & Green Tomorrow over...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICS to refer collectively to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
McDonald’s has set itself a target of only buying “verified sustainable beef” from 2016, though some commentators have questioned the authenticity of such claims. In a...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill looked at the new set of emerging economies. He’s calling them MINT: Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria...
Alternative investments like fine wine, art, stamps, classic cars and watches are reportedly more profitable than shares. That’s according to the latest Coutts Index, which says...
China’s former health minister Chen Zhu has estimated that up to 500,000 premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution – now the fourth biggest...
The trade body for the sustainable investment industry is seeking its members’ opinions on how it can improve its work for 2014, in the form of...
More than a third of financial services executives agree that their peers should be held criminally responsible for reckless behaviour, as this would be good for...
China is seeing an increase in its number of high net-worth individuals, driven by relative stable economic growth over the last five years amid the global...
Ben Goldsmith answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Goldsmith is an environmentalist, philanthropist and a partner at sustainable investment business WHEB, which he co-founded...