The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) is launching a new task group to debate the definition of ‘zero-carbon’ for non-domestic buildings. In 2008, the Labour government...
National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) is underway, and we’re publishing daily interviews, conducted by Greenhouse PR, with a different ethical investment pioneer each day until Friday. Wednesday’s pioneer...
Global investment in clean energy dropped by 14% in the third quarter of 2013, making it “almost certain” that annual investment in renewable and energy-smart technologies...
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to...
The climate variation pattern, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), will be strongly influenced by global warming in the future, a new study has found. Scientists from...
A mixture of the global financial crisis and lethargy from senior politicians has contributed to climate change slipping down the agenda in the UK, according to...
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...
At the start of National Ethical Investment Week, the sustainable investment industry was left reeling from the shock revelation that some funds would actually be banned (from...
The United Nations has highlighted the important role women play in responding to climate change, during the International Day of Rural Women. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary...
National Ethical Investment Week(NEIW) 2013 is underway, and a wide range of national newspapers and media outlets have already written about some of the themes associated...
Raj Thamotheram and Tim MacDonald dig into the impact sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) has had so far. They argue the industry could be the foundation from...
FTSE 350 companies must allow accountancy firms to bid for their audit work every 10 years in a bid to improve competition in the market. The...
Leading US social and environmental investment firm Sonen Capital has launched a new report which suggests that impact investment can outperform traditional asset class strategies. The...
Pregnant women exposed to pollutants and heavy traffic are more likely to have babies underweight and with smaller head circumferences, according to a new study. The...
Greenpeace has launched a legal challenge to stop companies from fracking in England, and to halt what it calls “reckless and presumptuous” plans for shale gas...