Conservative MP Tim Yeo, who recently led a campaign to include a decarbonisation target in the energy bill, has temporarily stood aside as chair of the...
Investors are being urged to help “change the balance of the UK’s energy mix” by pledging money towards a pioneering tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, which...
The world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases have committed to working with one another in an effort to reduce their combined contribution to climate change...
World leaders have pledged to fight global hunger and malnutrition, signing an agreement on the same day that campaigners flocked to an anti-hunger rally in London....
The construction of a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn might not bring about the environmental and economic advantages it suggests, according to a...
Community renewable energy platform Abundance Generation is giving away a £250 share of a wind turbine as part of Wind Week 2013 (June 8-16). The winner...
As the world celebrates World Oceans Day, a new study has suggested that deforestation, more so than global warming, can put coral reefs at risk because...
A high-profile group of social entrepreneurs and business leaders have written to the BBC, urging it to widen the reach of The Apprentice so that it...
Government proposals to give communities more say over onshore wind developments could make it easier for vocal minorities to prevent projects from happening. The Department of Energy...
David Cameron unveiled a Social Stock Exchange at the Social Impact Investment Conference on Thursday, in order to help push social investment in the UK. The...
The 21 climate activists who occupied West Burton gas power station last autumn have been given conditional discharges and ordered to do community service – but...
One of the UK’s most prolific social investment lenders has welcomed new measures to help push social investment, and urged third sector organisations to seize the...
International development minister Alan Duncan has visited survivors of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, and announced that the UK will work with the overseas manufacturing...
“Social investment can be a great force for social change on the planet“, said David Cameron, during a speech at the Social Impact Investment Conference on...
The government is meeting with business leaders on Thursday to discuss social impact investment. Less than two weeks before the UK hosts the G8 summit, it’s...