Customers affected by the storm that ravaged the UK over the festive period are to receive payments as a “gesture of good will”. Power companies were...
More than half of councils in England that preside over greenbelt land are preparing to offer some of it to developers, while perfectly suitable brownfield sites...
The Bank of England has announced that plastic banknotes are to be brought into circulation in the UK by 2016. It says they will bring greater...
Governments are being urged to withdraw funding from energy projects led by the World Bank, as the institution asks for donations to pay for a controversial...
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has written to MPs, urging them against cuts to the agriculture industry’s subsidies. The plans, which will see financial support for...
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith has criticised George Osborne’s efforts to push ahead with plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport, saying that a review...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has agreed to pay US regulators $100m (£61m) following allegations that the bank violated sanctions against Iran, Burma, Cuba and...
Energy supplier E.ON has announced that its customers face a 3.7% dual fuel price rise from January – the last of the big six firms to...
Investors are now able to assess how climate policy and risks can affect their shares in fossil fuel companies and have consequences on earnings and stock...
George Osborne has said that the government will be reducing the cost of energy bills by cutting back on green levies. Appearing on The Andrew Marr...
The solar photovoltaics (PV) industry is increasingly evolving from an investor’s market to an energy savings market, according to the PV Parity Project. PV is a...
Beijing, Shanghai and Mexico City have each kickstarted carbon credit schemes in an effort to boost clean technologies and push companies towards less polluting practices. Over...
Switzerland has voted no in a referendum that would have seen a cap placed on the gap between the highest and the lowest wages companies can...
Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is expected to order an inquiry into how Paul Flowers was appointed chairman of the Co-operative Bank, despite admitting that...
The chairman of the Co-operative Group Len Wardle has resigned from his post after the Co-operative Bank’s former chairman became embroiled in a drugs controversy. Wardle,...