Ty Lee, senior analyst at WHEB Asset Management, delves into the troublesome world of corporate sustainability reporting, and explains why we must crack the chicken-and-egg problem...
Leading economists are failing to account for ecosystem services such as climate change, water scarcity and pollinator fall off, because of the inherent short-term nature of...
Good Energy, the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, has released its preliminary results for 2012 – a year in which the firm experienced encouraging growth...
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better is a book that explores poverty and inequality, targeting the huge social and economic gap between...
Best-in-class investment means investing in companies that are frontrunners in meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in their particular universe, asset class or category. To...
Prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben has described Australian coalmining as a “rogue industry”, despite many new developments gaining recent approval in the country. The country’s government previously...
A study by Greenpeace has highlighted the reasons behind the bee decline, and urged the EU to move faster on pesticide bans to avoid irreparable damages...
The Natural Capital Committee (NCC) has released its first report, designed to ensure that the government has a better informed understanding of the economic value of...
Previously I wrote an article that condemned corporate social responsibility (CSR) as it was currently understood and practiced by most companies. Below I set out my...
Trade association RenewableUK has revealed that all 175 turbines at London Array, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, are now generating clean power. The 630 megawatt...
Margaret Thatcher, who died yesterday aged 87, was a deeply divisive leader, but she was certainly a leader. One area of that leadership was in climate...
Today is the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Bahrain World Trade Centre – the first building in the world to integrate wind turbines into...
South Korean authorities have said that they haven’t detected any suspicious activities at the Punggye-ri site where it was thought the North was running nuclear tests....
Sustainable finance institution Ecology Building Society has revealed that it increased its net profits by 8% in 2012 – a figure that comes just two weeks...
Two philanthropic foundations have created an African impact investment fund, which they hope will go on to drive social and economic change across the continent. The...