The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) revealed it made a £5.17 billion pre-tax loss in 2012 – more than three times the £1.2 billion it lost...
Ecosystem services are crucial to our survival; we literally can’t afford to lose them. Increasing investment in and protection of these hugely important environmental assets can...
Campaign website Avaaz is calling on people to sign a petition to the EU parliament, in order to ensure transparent financial transactions within banks in a...
Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke has warned about the possible consequences of a global water shortage – a threat that will hit the food industry particularly hard....
Today is International Polar Bear Day – an event led by the world’s leading polar bear conservation group, Polar Bear International (PBI), to celebrate and protect...
Financial information firm Dow Jones and sustainable investment specialists RobecoSAM have developed a joint index that looks to measure the sustainability performance of companies from emerging...
Protests drive progress. From Rosa Parks on an Alabama bus to the ‘tank man’ in Tiananmen Square; these are the people that have effected real societal...
Despite the economic downturn, energy company British Gas has reported that it made profits of £606m in 2012 – up from £544m in 2011. But environmental...
Oil and gas companies are celebrating a three-decade peak in North Sea investment, as well as thriving jobs and tax reliefs, but our future energy mix...
Libya could generate five times the amount of energy from solar panels alone than what it produces from crude oil, according to research by Nottingham Trent...
The United Nations has launched a new programme to develop technologies that help tackle climate change, following an agreement made during climate change negotiations in Doha...
Some of the world’s largest food and beverage companies fail to meet ethical and environmental standards in developing countries, a report by Oxfam has revealed. The...
Citizens from 48% of countries across the world are at serious risk of human rights violations, meaning global businesses ought to be wary about where they’re...
Ecclesiastical’s recent Amnity Insight report “Human Rights: Human Wrongs” examines human rights as an emerging corporate risk and what businesses should do to address this. In...
Scandinavia has managed to reduce its carbon emissions and achieve considerable economic growth. As a result, countries like Denmark and Sweden have become some of the...