An alliance of over 100 organisations, including major businesses, investors, charities and trade associations, has urged the UK government to listen to the recommendations of the...
An academic who in 1991 published a book outlining the need for alternative measures of economic success or failure has described its recent reissue as “depressing”,...
Christian charity Operation Noah has said described a stakeholder survey by the Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) on possible fossil fuels divestment as...
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth has been discovered in newly analysed satellite data to be an astonishing -93.2C (-135.8F). Unsurprisingly, the coldest place on...
Energy secretary Ed Davey has inaugurated biomass power plant Drax, which will produce electricity from wood pulp and cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Drax power station...
Lloyds Bank, which remains partly owned by the government, has sold its remaining stake in wealth management firm St James’s Place, raising £680 million. The bank...
Payday lenders have come under more fire after figures released by watchdog Ofcom found that almost 400,000 adverts for the controversial companies were shown on TV...
On Tuesday night, BBC Panorama is set to accuse Comic Relief of investing in the tobacco, alcohol and arms industries. Hiding behind the laws of fiduciary...
Israel, Jordan and Palestine have agreed to build a pipeline in order to replenishing the rapidly declining Dead Sea. In a ceremony at the headquarters of...
The implementation of responsible investment (RI) policies is ‘stagnating’, according to European-wide research. Although more investors are using RI strategies they remain ‘skin-deep’, a report by...
Conservation charities have warned that numbers of 16 out of the 107 most common birds in Britain have declined because of habitat loss, while 32 species...
China is inadequately prepared in the fight against the impacts of climate change because of a lack of planning and public awareness, the government admitted on...
Research from the Financial Services Consumer Panel has said that the annuities market is in urgent need of reform. The report argues that millions of pensioners...
Divestment groups have asked a number of institutions in Britain to come clean about links with the fossil fuels industry and drop investment. Student campaign network...
The number of energy customers switching providers is at a three-year high, after all of the big six suppliers announced price increases in 2013, figures released...