Two London credit unions are to merge and create one of the largest such organisations in England, joining together some 11,000 members. Earlier this week, members...
Charities play a crucial role in helping our society wherever public spending is lacking and they need support from the public now more than ever, the...
A new poll has found the controversial possibility of fracking operations coming to UK national parks and private land is opposed by the majority of the...
Oil giant BP was “grossly negligent” in the build up to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a US judge has ruled. The disaster, at BP’s...
The father of social investment and chair of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force has called on governments to provide more support to social impact...
A poll commissioned by Greenpeace and conducted across 30 countries has found robust public support for the proposal to create a protected area in the Arctic...
Asset managers can create better-performing portfolios by excluding stocks with lower environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings, according to new research. The study by New Amsterdam...
MSCI, a provider of investment decision support tools, has launched a new set of carbon and fossil fuel metrics to aid investors wanting to reduce their...
Britain should form a special unit to tackle food crime in the wake of the 2013 horsemeat scandal, according to a government-backed report by food security...
Nearly 300 partnerships have been forged between governments, businesses and civil society organisations at a UN climate conference, generating $1.9 billion (£1.1bn) supporting small island developing...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has expressed his concern that the world is not acting fast enough to mitigate climate change, ahead of a UN climate summit...
Ahead of Europe’s largest consumer technology show, to be hosted in Berlin this week, Greenpeace has analysed the environmental progress being made by companies attending the...
The winner of the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize has suggested that the UK solve its housing crisis by allowing existing towns and cities to expand into...
Plans to build a new wind turbine production and installation facility in Hull have received approval from Hull City Council’s Planning Committee. In March, Siemens and...
Both president Xi Jinping of China and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi have confirmed they will not be attending the UN Climate Summit, greatly undermining the...