Campaigners from Transform Scotland are calling for greener, faster and safer rail services across Scotland, to help “bring cities closer together”. Its new campaign was launched...
The CBI’s budget submission calls for rebalancing the economy away from consumption to secure a sustainable recovery. However, the organisation’s proposals include freezing the Carbon Price...
Environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are “failing the population challenge”, according to research from environmentalist and writer Jonathon Porritt and the charity Population Matters. Porritt argues that population...
The city council of Los Angeles has voted to start drafting rules that would ban the controversial process of fracking within its jurisdiction. Following concerns raised...
The controversial pilot badger culls carried out in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset last year were inhumane and ineffective, new analysis has found. According to reports...
As much as a third of all the food the world produces is never eaten, causing huge inefficiencies in economic, energy and natural resource use, according...
The Church of England has placed a job listing for the position of head of responsible investment. The posting follows strong criticisms around the church’s investments...
Mt Gox, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan following reports that it lost almost half a billion dollars’ worth...
The Italian Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF) has launched the second edition of its sustainable investment award, celebrating institutions that excel in responsible finance. Last year the...
American ice-cream brand Ben & Jerry’s is supporting a campaign launched by the Fairtrade Foundation to make retailers pay more for bananas, as it believes businesses...
Exposure to a certain type of man-made pollutant has been linked to the development of certain metabolic complications of obesity in humans by a pioneering new...
Criminal gangs who tricked British investors out of millions of pounds have been targeted in the biggest ever international crackdown on boiler room fraud. The operation...
The recently observed increase in summer sea-ice cover in Antarctica’s Ross Sea is likely to be short-lived, according to the findings of a new study that...
The leader of the Green party Natalie Bennett has said she would like to see the party represented at leaders’ debates in the run up to...
The energy regulator Ofgem has ordered the big six energy firms to return money owed to former customers. It estimates that at least £400m has been...