Emergency teams are assessing the damage caused by the cyclone Phailin, which disrupted the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states with 125mph winds on Saturday. Indian authorities...
Many readers will be familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This widely taught model suggests that humans achieve motivation in a series of stages, starting at...
Nearly 3 million investors could consider social investment within the next year, according to a study by the ethical bank Triodos. Surveying the investment habits of...
It has been the vogue in the financial press to focus on the concept that investing can be neatly divided between the ethical and the unethical....
With ethical funds recently showing greater gains over their conventional peers over the last 12 months, high net-worth investors putting an increasing portion of their wealth...
Our oceans are littered with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of discarded fishing nets, posing a major threat to sea life everywhere. In an effort to...
With George Osborne, what he doesn’t say is often more interesting than what he does. It’s been clear for some time that the chancellor of the...
Talks must begin now on the world’s ‘carbon budget’, leading economist and expert on climate change Lord Stern has warned. On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on...
The Economics of Happiness is a documentary that features voices across six continents calling for systematic economic change. The film describes the contrasting directions of governments...
Several innovative UK technology companies have won a business opportunity to visit China to explore greener approaches to manufacturing. The six-day mission was organised by the...
The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate is set to review the economic costs of climate change. It is expected that the project will build...
Almost 75% of US companies are ignoring rules that require them to inform investors of the risks that climate change may pose to their business, according...
In delaying climate change action, we are making the biggest dice roll in recent memory, argues Jae Mather. There are three stages people go through in...
New research shows that public perception is “skewed” when it comes to environmental responsibility. Whilst the public sees business at the heart of the economic recovery,...
US stock markets hit a record high and global markets rallied on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve unexpectedly said it would maintain its economic stimulus program....