Polly Courtice, founder director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), has won the coveted Stanford Bright Award 2015 for her efforts in guiding thousands...
Card tricks for beginners: In a deft, almost dazzling sleight of hand, global Big Oil has pulled off a classic bait and switch move in the...
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has today confirmed a presumption against fracking and unconventional gas developments in Northern Ireland. The new Single Planning Policy Statement states: “in...
The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) has announced its support for the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué, calling for reform, and ultimately,...
On 25 September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Development Agenda titled ‘Transforming our world’. In it world leaders have committed...
The Rt Hon David Cameron MP called on the leaders of developed countries to deliver on their promises of aid and work together to eradicate extreme poverty. 27...
Shell announced today that it was abandoning further work on the controversial Burger J exploration well, located in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. The Burger J well is approximately 150 miles...
Students from Fossil Free Warwick University announce campaign targeting BP following divestment victory three months ago. Students from Fossil Free Warwick University have launched a new...
UK-based Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) welcomed Australian power company AGL’s Energy’s commitment to a 2-degree Celsius constrained business model. Avaaz says: “AGL Energy’s climate policy...
The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known as the Brundtland Commission gave us the much quoted definition of what sustainable development should embrace: “development...
The recently adopted Global Goals for Sustainable Development are a positive step towards tackling climate change and creating a poverty-free and more equal world. However, we...
It’s not often that the entire globe can agree on a deal that is politically challenging and technically complex. That is what happened today when the...
A new joint campaign is being launched today by the Solar Trade Association and RenewableUK opposing the Government’s plans to cut financial support to small-scale renewables,...
With today’s adoption of the Global Goals for sustainable development, here’s the reaction from various organisations. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, writing in the Huffington post, said: “In a...
More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit...