The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of continuing deteriorating air quality in many of the world’s biggest cities. Its urban air quality database, which covers...
In China, a country now plagued with infamous pollution problems, 64% of people identify themselves as environmentalists, while in Europe and the US, environmental concern is...
Barclays has announced it will cut 19,000 jobs, with around half coming from the UK, between now and 2016 in its new strategy update. The bank’s...
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has called for a global mindset strong enough to “make tough decisions because we know it is the right thing to...
A House of Lords report has supported the government’s commitment to “go all out for shale” and has urged fracking to be made a “national priority”,...
Leading philanthropist and founder of asset management firm CQS Sir Michael Hintze has made an unprecedented £5m donation to the Natural History Museum, to help the...
Crowdfunder is an online platform for helping businesses, charities and community groups raise money from the communities around them. On the back of a record-breaking month...
Voting has opened for the 2014 World Responsible Tourism Awards, with the tourism industry and holidaymakers given the opportunity to reward the individuals and companies that...
Electricity prices have risen 37% in the last three years, and are set to increase well above the rate of inflation for the foreseeable future. Looking...
The International Association of Investors in the Social Economy (INAISE) has said that social financing “is working”, ahead of its annual conference at which it will...
The WWF has criticised the majority of European and UK firms that buy soy for animal feed, saying that they are not putting enough effort into...
Many oil projects make “neither economic nor climate sense”, with as much as $1.1 trillion (£650 billion) of investor money at risk as a result, according...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Ethical supermarket Sainsbury’s has seen its pre-tax profits for the year to 15 March increase by 16.3%, reaching £898 million. The company said the food retail...
Renewable energy supplier Good Energy will invest in a pioneering tidal energy project that is expected to provide clean power to more than 155,000 homes in...