Many oil projects make “neither economic nor climate sense”, with as much as $1.1 trillion (£650 billion) of investor money at risk as a result, according...
Ethical supermarket Sainsbury’s has seen its pre-tax profits for the year to 15 March increase by 16.3%, reaching £898 million. The company said the food retail...
Renewable energy supplier Good Energy will invest in a pioneering tidal energy project that is expected to provide clean power to more than 155,000 homes in...
Investment in Britain’s road infrastructure will need to increase “substantially” over the next decade to keep up with the expected growth in traffic, MPs have warned....
How do we make democracy sustainable? That’s a question we set out to answer in The Guide to Sustainable Democracy 2014, which is published exactly a year...
The chancellor George Osborne has criticised the impacts of and the lack of information around the EU financial transaction tax (FTT), after it was revealed some...
Conservation charity the World Land Trust (WLT) has announced it has successfully raised £1m in order to help it protect orangutans and other wildlife species in...
A group of young climate change campaigners gathered outside parliament on Wednesday, demanding that politicians from the three main parties give voters environmental options, as the...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has called on everyone, from business leaders and politicians to investors and citizens, to work together to tackle climate change. He argues...
Supermarket giant Morrisons has joined other retailers in offering cruelty-free beauty and personal care products, after being awarded the Leaping Bunny mark by Cruelty Free International...
The board of trustees at the prestigious Californian university Stanford has decided not to make any more direct investments in coal mining companies, saying the energy...
Lord Myners’ has labelled the Co-operative Group’s board as “manifestly dysfunctional” in his review into the governance structure of the organisation. He added that the group...
One of Australia’s richest men has left almost his entire fortune to charity, after he died last week following a short illness. Paul Ramsay, who made...
Ten social entrepreneurs have been announced as winners of the Big Energy Idea, an initiative set up by the Ignite social investment fund to address key...
The CEO of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), one of the largest Sharia-compliant lenders in the region, has said that Islamic banking is for everyone and...