On Tuesday night, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary exploring the extreme weather events of 2012 and asked the question, “Is our weather getting worse?” Weather should...
Feedback is said to be the breakfast of champions. Well, we’d really like to know what you think of our efforts in 2012. Don’t spare our...
Twelve years ago today, the US Supreme Court gave a ruling that declared George W Bush the country’s 43rd president. Now that the dust has settled...
Up until this year, I banked with HSBC. I’d done so since receiving a shiny red money box from them at the age of seven. It...
After global climate negotiations in Doha wrapped up at the weekend, Steve Trent, executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EFJ), writes about how climate change...
A PWC study this month calculates that the global carbon intensity improvement required to meet a 2°C warming target has now risen to 5.1% a year,...
With gas such a crucial fuel in the transition to a low carbon economy Schroders talk about how this will affect the climate change strategy. US...
Will and Sally Sutcliffe are ethical investors. Their investment journey began in the late ‘90s when they inherited a “sizeable sum” of money that they realised...
In the renewables industry, it’s often the case that campaigners enjoy much of the limelight. But without firms to invest in, install and build the technologies,...
The excellent Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister gave us three brilliant characters, Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard. It also gave us some perfect one-liners....
A recent discussion forum organised by the EIRIS Foundation in association with Oxfam brought NGOs and investors together to explore what a responsible approach to investments...
A piece in The Guardian last week posed the question, “Where can investors who worry about climate change put their pension?” and claimed that many ethical funds...
I have been an avid watcher of the community energy sector and personally did a lot of the preparatory work into a community wind turbine, which...
The internet is a marvellous thing. But as it’s progressed, it’s inevitably become smarter, to the point where search results are now intricately tailored to suit...
Simon Leadbetter explains how the benefits of subsidising renewable energy technologies far outweigh any kind of opposition. There’s a famous scene from Monty Python’s Life of...