On Monday in Paris, the world’s political leadership, diplomats and bureaucrats will gather, alongside corporations, non-governmental organisations, experts and campaigners. All of us must hope that...
Michael Fotis (pictured) writes: In the financial services space, the idea of ‘consumers as co-regulators’ is one that the FCA’s Consumer Panel has been advocating for...
A group of civil society organisations has written to MEPs calling on them to vote in favour of measures on Responsible Investment and transparency in the...
Legal liability risks from climate change for British, Australian, Canadian and South African company directors and pension fund trustees will be assessed under a new Commonwealth Climate...
Following the Government’s decision to reject the Law Commission’s recommendation that pension trustees should take account ESG issues, we spoke to Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of ShareAction, about...
Commenting ahead of the opening of the UN climate talks in Paris on Monday, which will be attended by over 130 world leaders including David Cameron,...
Unilever has announced that it will stop using coal energy by 2020, and plans to use only renewable energy by 2030. Unilever’s announcement comes ahead of COP21. Unilever, along...
This excellent article in Why Green Economy is a summary of Dario Kenner’s (pictured) working paper, The inequality of overconsumption: The ecological footprint of the richest, published by the Global...
After dropping the 2014 Circular Economy Package, Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans (pictured), promised a new “more ambitious” Package at the end of this...
On the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, taking place in Paris next week, the members of the Global Travel Association Coalition...
World renowned scientists and economists back Kiribati President’s call for No New Coal Mines in open letter published tomorrow in The Guardian UK and global edition...
Edward ‘Ted’ Franks, Fund Manager of 3D 5-star rated WHEB Sustainability Fund, always looked for a way to deliver good things through finance and economics. He spent his...
In June Lancashire County Council rejected Cuadrilla’s fracking applications on two sites in Lancashire – Roseacre Wood and Little Plumpton. Cuadrilla’s appeal against Lancashire County Council’s...
The Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC), which aims to support greenhouse gas emissions cuts by engaging institutional investors committed to decarbonizing their portfolios, is now overseeing the decarbonization...
Buy Nothing Day was founded in Vancouver by artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by Adbusters magazine, based in Canada. It is an international day of...