Six years ago the United Nations established the Principles of Responsible Investment for asset managers and asset owners globally. In this holiday series, Simon Leadbetter explores...
A 500 kilowatt wind installation in the Forest of Dean – the first funding project from community finance platform, Abundance Generation – has reached its £300,000...
The feed-in tariff (FiT) for domestic solar installations comes down to 16p per kilowatt (kW) hour today, but this shouldn’t put people off investing in the...
A report published by a trio of institutional investment groups has found that whilst a majority of investors were increasingly aware of climate change and its...
Today, the government published the banding review for the Renewables Obligation. It says the UK’s economy will get a £20-25 billion boost because of it. Here’s...
The government has published its much-anticipated plans for renewable energy subsidies. It claims the new banding for the Renewables Obligation (RO) will “support jobs and deliver...
Just nine days remain until Westmill Solar Co-operative’s share offer closes, and the project is within touching distance of its £4m target, as well as a...
A record $10.8 billion (£6.9 billion) was spent on new solar power projects in 2011, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), with continental Europe and...
The Co-operative Bank has struck a deal to buy 632 Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham and Gloucester (C&G) branches in the UK, in what it’s calling the...
A solar power project in Jordan could receive $200m (£128m) worth of investment from a Chinese firm. Photovoltaic specialists Trina Solar, the fourth largest solar panel...
An innovative new funding model, Abundance Generation, has taken its first steps to investing £250m in renewable energy in the next five years, after it launched...
The Bank of America’s wealth management arm, Merrill Lynch, has set ‘investing and values’ as the theme to this year’s edition of its annual Global Investing...
The Australian government has announced the launch of a Clean Technology Innovation Programme worth an estimated A$200m (£131m), as it looks to control its greenhouse gas...
Investing your money sustainably – in companies and funds that take into account the planet, its people and prosperity – reaps a 15% better return than...
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and Thomson Reuters have published the results from their tenth annual Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) & Sustainability Survey....