Whatever you call it – sustainable investment, responsible investment or ethical investment – the challenge for 2014 is not how to make niche funds mainstream, but...
With one week to go before voting closes, energy firm Gazprom, football’s governing body Fifa and a trio of pesticide firms are among the frontrunners for...
The US navy is to publish a new strategy in the coming weeks detailing how it plans to address the increase in commercial shipping traffic, oil...
“We’re going all out for shale gas”, the shiny man says. All out for a technology whose availability is unproven and undefined, its impacts unclear and...
A combination of rising global population, economic growth and climate change means that more than half of the world’s inhabitants will live in ‘water-stressed areas’ by...
Just one in five Britons would “definitely” support fracking near their homes, whilst 33% would support it elsewhere in the country, a poll by Viewsbank has...
The Dallas Safari Club in the US has auctioned a licence to kill an African black rhino in Namibia – a move that conservationists have labelled...
Buying food from local sources will help retailers and consumers avoid scandals akin to the horsemeat contamination of British food products in 2013, the chair of...
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...
Oil giant BP has lost out in its bid to limit compensation payouts to those affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which saw some 5m...
Green spaces in urban environments provide “significant and sustained improvements in mental health” that can last years and have positive effects on public wellbeing, a new...
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...
The polar vortex, which has brought severe disruption and record low temperatures to the US in recent weeks, has gone on to warm areas of Scandinavia,...
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 &...
The government has come under fire over claims that it is “bribing” local authorities across the UK, by allowing them to keep 100% of business rates...