China will commit to tougher carbon reduction targets in its next five-year plan, due in 2015, but nearby Japan is expected to lower its own objectives,...
A senior IT analyst at Greenpeace has welcomed efforts by Facebook and Apple to clean up their environmental footprints. Speaking at an event on Wednesday, Gary...
Nationwide Building Society has revealed a £270m jump in pre-tax profits for the first half of 2013, up from £103m reported a year earlier. An increase...
Despite small signs of recovery in previous years, the Amazon rainforest – the ‘lungs of the Earth’ – is in danger after an increase in deforestation...
Italy’s second Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) Week finished on Tuesday in Rome. The last event had its key moment at the end of the day,...
November 15 is National Philanthropy Day in the US. Philanthropists come in all shapes and sizes, from all backgrounds and in all industries. Some donate their...
A new competition has been launched, offering £250,000 to the person who can create the best design of a new garden city to help solve Britain’s...
A new major report into ocean acidification has predicted that levels could become dangerously high in the future, threatening the livelihoods of those dependent on marine...
Unite, the UK’s biggest union, has launched a new credit union service in a bid to challenge payday lenders and other organisations that “[try] to make...
A public opinion survey has demonstrated that most US citizens think that the country’s government should be doing more to tackle climate change. The poll, which...
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan
Three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have unveiled a new report at the climate negotiations in Warsaw, calling for the establishment of the ‘loss and damage’ system discussed...
A new online platform that allows individuals to pledge money to projects that deliver measurable benefits to communities and the wider society has been launched by...
Signatories to the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) will decide on Friday whether international discussions are required to debate a pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous...
A Spanish court has ruled the country’s government has no criminal responsibility for one of the worst environmental disasters ever to occur in Europe, when the...