A coalition of institutional investor groups has written a letter urging governments of some of the world’s most powerful economies to show decisive action over climate...
Governments and policy-makers worldwide are failing to shift energy onto a truly sustainable path by over-subsidising fossil fuels and failing to capitalise on energy efficiency technologies,...
It is relatively easy to make wild promises, being an unelectable third candidate in US politics. The Green Party’s Jill Stein has a tendency to throw...
At an event hosted by Ingenious Clean Energy, renowned environmentalist Jonathon Porritt asks whether we’re at the point at which our circularity with energy gets broken,...
The future head of Britain’s new banking regulator has warned that banks will be allowed to fail. Andrew Bailey will run the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)...
The United Kingdom has the seventh largest economy in the world measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), down from fifth in 1979. Despite our slow overall...
A wind power co-operative in Northern Ireland has so far raised £1.6m in its quest to build a number of community-owned turbines in the country –...
The effects of climate change on the global economy and human population are already worryingly apparent, according to a new report which claims over $1.2 trillion...
Studies continue to reinforce the risks of climate change to the global food supply as extreme US weather dominates headlines. We look at the importance of...
What makes renewable technology such a game changer? Is it just the promise of a clean, limitless energy source or is it something else, something more...
Paul Gaston, Head of UK Sales at Pictet, explains why, in today’s economic climate, there’s never been a better time to invest in water. The past...
A record $10.8 billion (£6.9 billion) was spent on new solar power projects in 2011, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), with continental Europe and...
Recent debacles in banking from various insurance mis-selling scandals (payment protection and interest rate swaps), on-going IT failures (Natwest) and Libor fixing (Barclays, the first of...
Boasting one of the worst economic failures the world has ever seen, Greece is in much need of repair after domestic mismanagement and the crisis in...
A new report has outlined the “false choice” involved in having to decide between green and growth, saying that low-carbon products and services could add £20...