Seventy-three per cent of independent financial advisers (IFAs) get requests for ethical investment options from clients, according to a Blue & Green Tomorrow survey of the...
Forty-six per cent of financial advisers that recently completed a Blue & Green Tomorrow survey reported that the retail distribution review (RDR) will harm the interests...
Nearly two years after the Fukushima disaster, Japan has its sights set on filling the void left by its suspended nuclear fleet with the “world’s largest...
Barack Obama has said that a global failure to respond to climate change would mean “[betraying] our children and future generations”, as he embarked on a...
A report by one of the world’s largest reinsurance firms has highlighted the important role insurers must play in tackling climate change and developing renewable energy....
Ramped up responsible investment into agriculture could help tackle poverty and hunger across the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It says...
The Social Investment Organisation (SIO) in Canada has confirmed that the country’s socially responsible investment (SRI) sector has witnessed a 16% growth in just two years....
Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins has sent a memo to the bank’s 140,000-strong global staff base, calling on employees to quit if they don’t agree with...
Industrial giant Siemens and investor leadership group Ceres are among the firms to be recognised by the Zayed Future Energy Prize in a ceremony in Abu...
High street banks including Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Nationwide have revealed what they will charge for financial advice, following the introduction...
French president François Hollande has called upon governments across the world to invest heavily in renewable energy in the coming years, in order to avoid the...
Fines of up to £500m in value are likely to be given to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as early as next week, as UK...
Seventy per cent of people in the EU think renewable energy should be given priority in their country’s energy mix over the next three decades, according...
Investment in renewable energy was lauded as a “global opportunity” by delegates attending discussions at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2013. Some 30,000 people from across...
Google’s investments into renewable energy now exceed $1 billion (£620m), after the internet firm announced it would be pumping $200m (£124m) into a wind farm development...