The government has contested an EU proposal for a tougher 2025 emissions target for motor vehicles, because it believes that this will delay earlier targets in...
Centrica, the firm that owns British Gas, has recorded greater profits in the first four months of 2013 than it did in 2012 – because homeowners...
In April, the Sunday Times revealed its 2013 Rich List – an annual rundown of the UK’s most affluent tycoons and families. Alex Blackburne looks at...
Government plans to introduce a cap on new biomass developments to limit public spending are “not without risk”, according to trade body the Renewable Energy Association...
The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) has produced a consultation paper that would force firms listed on global stock exchanges to reveal their environmental, social...
What links geocentricists to tobacco/cancer link deniers and to the current crop of human-caused climate change deniers? There have always been vested interests, which will do...
Land grabbing by two large Vietnamese firms has driven communities in Laos and Cambodia off their land and forced people to work on rubber plantations, according...
Hundreds of millions of people will become displaced from their homes because of climate change, while the populations of one-third of common land animals will severely...
Chile is said to be considering geothermal energy as part of its energy mix, in an effort to boost its renewables sector and achieve energy self-sufficiency....
Recommendations on how to transform Britain’s “broken” financial system were suggested on Friday at a conference in London, attended by campaigners, economists and financiers. Speakers at...
Here, Blue & Green Tomorrow rounds up some of April’s biggest headlines – a month in which Earth Day took place, the EU voted to ban...
Blending social investment, public funding and social enterprise, social impact bonds are a groundbreaking way of raising private funds to finance essential public services. Public contracts...
Asda, Morrisons and Greggs have appeared at the bottom of a table that ranks 20 commercial bakers on their use of palm oil in their products....
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has divested from a global mining corporation because of concerns over human rights violations and environmental damage, which it says are...
Investment in Africa that focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors can bring both financial returns for investors and improvements for local communities, a new...