China’s former health minister Chen Zhu has estimated that up to 500,000 premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution – now the fourth biggest...
The trade body for the sustainable investment industry is seeking its members’ opinions on how it can improve its work for 2014, in the form of...
The Investment Management Association’s (IMA) latest investment statistics show a 20% increase in the amount invested in ethical retail funds in the year to November 2013....
More than a third of financial services executives agree that their peers should be held criminally responsible for reckless behaviour, as this would be good for...
Scientists and engineers from Harvard University have developed a new type of battery that they say could revolutionise the way electricity is stored on the grid,...
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, worth $820 billion (£498 billion), is reportedly close to receiving approval for expansion into more asset classes in a bid to meet...
China is seeing an increase in its number of high net-worth individuals, driven by relative stable economic growth over the last five years amid the global...
Ben Goldsmith answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Goldsmith is an environmentalist, philanthropist and a partner at sustainable investment business WHEB, which he co-founded...
The UK government’s claims that it is spending more money on flood defences than ever before are incorrect, environmental campaigners have said. While just under 100...
This outstanding, detached, single-storey barn conversion is situated in Netherby, Carlisle, and is available to book now through cottages4you. The property stands in a courtyard alongside...
Fund management business Alliance Trust Investments is set to change its policy to a more precautionary view on unconventional gas, which includes fracking, following concerns raised...
The conservation of historic sites, habitats and the local ecosystem has catapulted the Azores Islands, 850 miles west of Portugal, to the upper end of rankings...
Global venture capital investment in clean technology (cleantech) totalled $6.8 billion (£4.1 billion) in 2013, with energy efficiency, transportation and solar the most profitable sectors, according...
In some areas of the US, where below-freezing temperatures are driving up energy demand, the lights have been kept on thanks largely to the contribution of...
Big six energy firm Npower has announced price cuts of 2.6%, amid growing pressure from consumer groups to pass on savings to customers after the government’s...