The Environment Agency has said that flooding cost the UK £600m in 2012, with floods occurring one in every five days. The figures say that the cost...
The risk posed to the global climate by escaping reserves of methane from under melting Arctic ice may be bigger than originally thought, according to a...
Anna Laycock, ethics manager at Ecology Building Society, reflects on recent media criticism of financial mutuals. Reading the headlines this weekend, you’d have been forgiven for...
A group of investors collectively worth €7.5 trillion (£6.26 trillion) has described the positive conclusion to the UN climate talks in Warsaw as an important step...
Threadneedle Investments and Big Issue Invest have pulled the curtain on the Threadneedle UK Social Bond fund – an investment vehicle available from January 2014 that...
The failure of UN negotiations in Warsaw to secure global carbon emission reductions, along with David Cameron’s recent comments – in which he allegedly told aides...
The comments come after a reversal of legal tactics by the oil giant, which was responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, in its...
Towards 9 Billion is a vision for a sustainable and equitable future based upon some simple yet radical changes to the purpose and processes of modern...
Given the scale of the problems the world faces, can we be optimistic about a future with sustainability at its core? In their first entry of...
Swiss sustainability rating agency Inrate has released a new index that ranks Stoxx Europe 50 companies on their environmental and social performances. Companies from the clothing,...
New research has suggested that ambitious emissions reduction targets are needed now in order to make an impact and slow the pace of climate change. The...
The UN Environment Programme’s director has called on the private sector and civil society to join forces in the name of sustainability, as climate change negotiations...
Just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of manmade greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. This includes investor-owned companies such as BP, Royal Dutch...
The long-running BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who celebrates its 50th anniversary on Saturday. Mark Wilson, a history PhD student at Northumbria University, draws parallels between a 1964 episode and Silent...
The World Bank, together with the UK, US and Norway, has launched a new BioCarbon Fund initiative to slow down deforestation through sustainable farming and landscape...