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...
ABP, a Dutch pension fund, has sold its €18m (£14.9m) stake in troubled Japanese utility company Tepco, which was responsible for a series of incidents following...
A sustainability manifesto for businesses and cities, Michael Blowfield and Leo Johnson’s Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future outlines the steps required towards...
The UK has too few honeybees and faces food security issues in the future as a result of this lack of pollinators, a new study has...
Geoengineering could be a solution for northern Europe and parts of Asia but at the expense of regions in Africa, North and South America and south-east...
The Climate Assets fund, Quilter Cheviot’s flagship sustainable investment fund, has been awarded a three crown rating by investment data firm Financial Express. The rating signals...
We want to connect investors and consumers with fast growth, highly innovative sustainable companies. In this first in a new series profiling some of the most...
The highest paid employees at FTSE 100 companies earn more from 24 hours of work than their average co-worker gets in a year – around £26,500...
The Chinese government has revealed that 3.33m hectares of its land – an area nearly as large as Belgium – is too polluted to grow crops,...
Ministers from some of the EU’s largest economies have called on the European commission to set an ambitious 2030 target for renewable energy use. The UK,...
The environment secretary has reaffirmed his support for genetically modified (GM) food, lauding the opportunities it offers to British farmers. Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference,...