Up until this year, I banked with HSBC. I’d done so since receiving a shiny red money box from them at the age of seven. It...
HSBC was today fined £1.2bn (1% of market capitalisation) over US claims that it was engaged in money laundering for terrorists. Its “profoundly sorry” CEO, Stuart...
David Cameron is set to answer questions on the government’s environmental credentials at 4pm this afternoon, when he faces the House of Commons liaison committee. The...
After global climate negotiations in Doha wrapped up at the weekend, Steve Trent, executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EFJ), writes about how climate change...
A PWC study this month calculates that the global carbon intensity improvement required to meet a 2°C warming target has now risen to 5.1% a year,...
With gas such a crucial fuel in the transition to a low carbon economy Schroders talk about how this will affect the climate change strategy. US...
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column yesterday lauded fracking as “an answer to the nation’s prayers“. But, in a piece that originally appeared on his blog, Tim Fenton unpicks Johnson’s article, which...
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has secured over 30,000 signatures in a petition for supermarket chain Waitrose to drop its affiliation with oil giant Shell. Waitrose announced...
Oil investors could be exposed to “serious financial risk” if they fail to challenge multinational firms over their responsibility, a report by the University of Essex...
It’s been just over a week since the government unveiled the energy bill. The pantomime politics around its publication have made for an energy drama that...
Will and Sally Sutcliffe are ethical investors. Their investment journey began in the late ‘90s when they inherited a “sizeable sum” of money that they realised...
A report by responsible investment campaigners FairPensions has ranked 20 of the largest ethical investment houses into a responsibility ranking. Ethical fund providers were scored on...
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has appointed Peter Knott as its chief risk officer. The former Deloitte & Touche executive was Chief Operating Officer of Risk...
In the renewables industry, it’s often the case that campaigners enjoy much of the limelight. But without firms to invest in, install and build the technologies,...
Governments from the UK and Germany have combined during climate change negotiations in Qatar to launch the NAMA Facility, a project that aims to assist poorer...