Cumbria will not become the host community for the government’s £12 billion nuclear waste disposal facility, after its county council voted in favour of withdrawing from...
Homebase has become the third major hardware retailer to phase out the sale of neonicotinoid insecticides that have been linked to the fall in bee numbers....
Ecclesiastical and Kames were unveiled as the top two fund providers as voted for by Ethical Investment Association (EIA) members. But completing the top four are Jupiter...
One of the cleantech industry’s leading intelligence firms has joined forces with Facebook to offer a cash prize for an idea that will help promote clean...
Crowdfunding is one of the best ways for small businesses with brilliant ideas to raise much-needed finance early on in their existence. Think of it as...
Companies with good environmental, social and governance (ESG) records are more likely to strike deals with private equity firms, according to research released earlier this month....
Following the National Audit Office’s (NAO) November report on Sellafield and its running costs, Joseph Iddison takes a look at the history of nuclear energy and weighs up...
The coalition’s decision not to include a decarbonisation target in last month’s energy bill has been pulled into question, after the Scottish government revealed its plans...
Thousands of campaigners have called for the government to take action over dwindling bee numbers, urging David Cameron to adopt a national bee action plan. Environmental...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) could almost match the expected amount it will be fined for its part in the Libor scandal in funding for...
Recommended by two-thirds of Ethical Investment Association (EIA) financial advisers, Kames Capital’s funds came second in a recent Blue & Green Tomorrow survey, just missing out...
One day after detonating its biggest nuclear device in the South Pacific, president Jacques Chirac announced that France would no longer test nuclear weapons. In a...
Co-operative Asset Management’s £750m range of ethical funds will no longer invest in Barclays, following concerns regarding the bank’s involvement in rigging the Libor rate. Barclays...
George Osborne spoke with passion when asked by the BBC to give the “economic case” for HS2 yesterday. Alex Blackburne writes how the chancellor’s answer revealed...
Simon Webber, Fund Manager of the Schroder Global Climate Change Fund tells us that efforts to tackle climate change will be the next industrial revolution and...