Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter Inc. has re-incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation. In their announcement they say they’re spelt out exactly what it means. Founded in 2009 by Perry Chen, Yancey...
Volkswagen has instructed U.S. dealers to halt sales of 2015 diesel cars after regulators discovered software it designed for the affected vehicles gave false emissions data. The...
Peace One Day is a non-profit organisation whose objective is to institutionalise the International Day of Peace. It was founded in 1999 by British documentary filmmaker...
China is investing £2bn in the delayed Hinkley Point nuclear power station, guaranteed by the UK government. This clears the way for French energy EDF to proceed with...
The research was commissioned by Alzheimer’s Research UK and carried out by the Office of Health Economics. It set out to calculate the number of people born...
New data published in the Sunday Herald yesterday revealed that Scottish local authority pensions have an astonishing £1.7 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, such as Shell...
As revealed in yesterday’s Sunday Herald the number of people being killed of by air pollution every year in Scotland may be nearly twice what was previously...
Climate Week NYC 2015, convened by The Climate Group kicks off today with a live streamed opening press conference at the United Nations Headquarters, New York. In...
Today we see the launch of an executive briefing for the public sector “Scaling Up Green Bond Markets for Sustainable Development” at the star-studded International Seminar –...
The Higher Education sector in England is further away from achieving its 2020 emissions reduction target compared to last year. The sector target of 43 per...
The EU’s negotiating position for the global climate talks in Paris in December, adopted by its Environment Ministers today, calls for climate neutrality – a full...
Christian Aid today called on the UK Government to stop financing coal extraction abroad, as a meeting of rich countries deferred the decision to pull government...
The Indonesian government appears to be taking a tougher line on forest fires, but the haze is worse than ever. Southeast Asia’s haze is back. Forest and...
Today, outside the meeting of Europe’s Environment Ministers discussing the EU’s negotiating position for global climate talks in Paris in December, climate groups staged a symbolic...
Triodos Bank has announced the £2.73 million debt financing of a community owned ground solar installation to be constructed at Braydon Manor farm near Swindon. The...