The ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ package released by the European Commission today has inconsistencies with the Paris Agreement’s objective of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, and...
ClientEarth has lodged a legal complaint to help save an UNESCO World Heritage Site. ClientEarth is urging the European Commission to halt the destructive plans to...
The threat climate change poses to human health is so great it should be considered a “medical emergency” and has the potential to undermine the last...
Leaked documents suggest that EU plans to curb air pollution and improve recycling rates could be scrapped. The two directives at risk aim to create a...
As the European Commission finalises its EU emission and renewable energy targets, business groups and trade unionists are calling for ambitious plans to encourage investment, create...
Vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) professor Jim Skea has criticised the EU’s 2030 emission reduction target, arguing that it does not go...
A new House of Lords committee has been established to consider the recent changes in the Arctic and assess their implications for the UK and its...
Energy UK has used the recent European election results to call for changes to the energy agenda and a move away from an “emotion driven and...
Charities and social enterprises are being urged to consider the ethics of their investments, following the revelations about Comic Relief last year, by the Association of...
The European parliament has voted in favour of the world’s toughest carbon dioxide emission standards for new cars, albeit with some concessions as a result of...
Two submissions to the Law Commission on fiduciary duty say the law gives investment trustees the ability to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. However,...
The parliamentary commission on banking standards’ latest report is a bit like reading the first part of The Lord of the Rings. There is incredibly dramatic and beautiful...
Forty-six per cent of financial advisers that recently completed a Blue & Green Tomorrow survey reported that the retail distribution review (RDR) will harm the interests...
The Investors Chronicle recently claimed that under a new financial advice regime called the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), advisers across the UK will be “preparing to dump their...