David Powell, economics campaigner at Friends of the Earth, on asking investors awkward questions about the urgency of climate change, in an effort to start doing things...
The Dutch town of Boxtel is set to become the first municipality in Europe to divest from fossil fuels companies. This follows its decision to ban...
The world is in danger of making the same mistakes with sub-prime carbon assets as it did with the sub-prime mortgages that led to the financial...
An alliance of 70 major investors with a collective $3 trillion (£1.85 trillion) of assets has called on the world’s largest fossil fuels firms to explain...
It’s National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) – a great initiative to raise awareness about green and ethical investment among the financial community and public at large....
A third of UK investors (34%) want their savings and investments to help create a more sustainable economy, according to a YouGov survey conducted for National...
The Swedish Centre party has called for pension funds to ‘climate proof’ investment by ditching holdings in the fossil fuel industry. AP funds – Sweden’s national...
James Cameron takes a look at the investment portfolios of pensions and urges real alternatives to high-carbon yields. This summer, the archbishop of Canterbury got into...
Now into its sixth year, National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) has developed from a newborn event, into an infant, a toddler and finally into a healthy...
Investment into North Sea oil and gas will reach record levels in 2013, with £13.5 billion pumped into an industry whose production has dropped off significantly...
The $750 billion Government Pension Fund of Norway (GPF) has responded to a review of its investment strategy, which described its ethical footprint as “severely limited”...
The majority of investors now view climate change as a “material risk”, according to a survey of asset managers and owners whose collective assets exceed $14...
Divesting from fossil fuels is a compelling win-win for investors and claims of underperformance are wrong, writes Ominder Dhillon of Impax Asset Management. Pressure is building on...
Sustainability is to be placed at the core of the Australian National University’s (ANU) investment strategy, but it’s unclear whether this means the institution will divest...
Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management ponders whether our efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change are too late. This piece originally featured in...