Today more than 500 members of the public will hear whether they have been chosen to attend the UN Climate Summit in September. Environmental activists from...
The Dutch public employees’ pension fund ABP has ignored an appeal from activists, including South Africa’s Desmund Tutu as well as 1.8 million petition signatories, to...
Figures from the Bank of England have revealed that lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SME) through the government’s flagship Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme...
Last year global capacity for renewable power grew at its fastest pace to date, with almost 22% of power generation coming from clean sources, data in...
A new report by Counting in Women has placed the UK 65th in a global leader board that compares the political representation of women, who make...
Responsible investment charity ShareAction has warned that investors should be concerned by Shell’s revived plans to drill in the Arctic, after the oil giant admitted it...
US defence and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has announced it will develop a pioneering laser system to track the growing threat of space debris. Working with...
The Yale Corporation’s Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR) has not recommended that the Ivy League school divests from fossil fuels, despite pressure from students. Instead shareholder...
A new guide by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been launched to help banks in Singapore implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice...
Bradford council gave the green light for the destruction of an ancient 100-foot high lime tree to make room for a new Aldi store, despite pleas...
Just three weeks after Samsung Electronics announced it is to reduce trade with a parts supplier after revelations of child labour, the tech giant has come...
According to a paper from UBS, the world’s largest private bank, the solar industry is set to transform energy systems over the next two decades and...
There is a good chance that the southwestern United States will suffer a 30-year drought this century as a result of climate change, scientists have warned....
Nestlé-owned coffee brand Nespresso has announced it wants to invest CHF500 million (£330m) over the next six years into a programme to create “significant benefits for...
The construction of a new wave of coal plants designed to burn Europe’s reserves of lignite could scupper the EU’s efforts to curb climate change, campaigners...