The Lloyd’s of London insurance market has announced the appointment of its first female chief executive. Inga Beale, who has 30 years’ experience in the industry,...
A new report by the Airport Commission has said that new runaways at Gatwick or Heathrow are needed to expand the UK’s airport capacity by 2030....
Gerald Kutney picks out some of the highlights from his upcoming book,Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol, to be published by Routledge in...
The Cryosat spacecraft has acquired data to suggest there was around 9,000 cubic km of sea ice in the Arctic region at the end of the...
Simon Howard, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), reflects on the last 12 months in the sustainable investment industry. This article...
A new study has found that only 15 of the 521 wind farm sites it analysed suffer with noise problems – which the authors claim can...
A number of environmental organisations have appealed to the European Court of Justice to defend the ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, imposed by the European Union because...
Food bank use has gone up by 60% in the last year alone in the south-east of England, the UK’s second wealthiest area after London, according...
Sir David Attenborough has said that the natural world is being changed by mankind to such an extent that animals can no longer survive, warning that...
Despite a challenging live refurbishment, professional services firm PwC’s 450,000 sq ft headquarters in London has been given the highest ever BREEAM rating, for both new...
George Latham, managing partner of WHEB Asset Management, writes how Comic Relief could have avoided the recent criticism of its investment strategy with a more informed...
The absolute return measures the gain or loss of a portfolio as a percentage of invested capital. It looks at the appreciation or depreciation that an...
Anti-fracking campaigners have delivered a giant wind turbine blade as a ‘Christmas gift’ to shale gas firm IGas, blocking the entrance to its drilling site in...
The boss of petrochemical company Ineos, Jim Ratcliffe, has said that nobody is going to buy power from the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, as it...
This is the latest cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see...