TED economics-star and author of Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty, has agreed to join Shadow Chancellor McDonnell’s team of seven economic advisers. He joins Danny Blanchflower, Mariana...
Card tricks for beginners: In a deft, almost dazzling sleight of hand, global Big Oil has pulled off a classic bait and switch move in the...
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has today confirmed a presumption against fracking and unconventional gas developments in Northern Ireland. The new Single Planning Policy Statement states: “in...
On 15th September Moneyfacts announced that EdenTree Investment Management has won their Ethical Investment Provider Award for a seventh consecutive year. EdenTree stated: “We are particularly...
Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge Environment and Energy Section are bringing the new WHOLE EARTH? photographic exhibition to Cambridge next month. The exhibition...
The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) has announced its support for the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué, calling for reform, and ultimately,...
Volkswagen fitted 500,000 VW and Audi diesel cars with code that tricked regulators into under-recording noxious emissions. The turbodiesel engine cars had been marketed as “clean...
On 25 September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Development Agenda titled ‘Transforming our world’. In it world leaders have committed...
The Rt Hon David Cameron MP called on the leaders of developed countries to deliver on their promises of aid and work together to eradicate extreme poverty. 27...
A PETA US donation of $1 million (£657k) in high-tech simulators will modernise physician-training programmes in seven countries and spare the lives of thousands of animals...
Shell announced today that it was abandoning further work on the controversial Burger J exploration well, located in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. The Burger J well is approximately 150 miles...
Students from Fossil Free Warwick University announce campaign targeting BP following divestment victory three months ago. Students from Fossil Free Warwick University have launched a new...
Yesterday the government pledged a further £5.8 billion of funding to the most vulnerable countries protect themselves from the effects of climate change. The UK is a leader...
Yesterday the UK government committed to substantially increase the amount of funding they are providing to help the most vulnerable countries protect themselves from the effects of...
UK-based Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) welcomed Australian power company AGL’s Energy’s commitment to a 2-degree Celsius constrained business model. Avaaz says: “AGL Energy’s climate policy...