The Scottish Government introduced the 5p single-use carrier bag charge to retailers across the country in October 2014. Now, more than one year on, I don’t...
Scotland’s circular economy experts Zero Waste Scotland on Friday (18th March) launched an £18m fund to help small and medium-sized enterprises explore and pioneer ways to...
Zero Waste Scotland today welcomed the announcement by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of a new £70m programme to develop and grow the circular economy in Scotland,...
RBS bank today announced new provisions for litigation and mis-selling compensation, totalling £2.5billion in the latest blow to Britain’s biggest lender. The news sent RBS shares...
Official figures published later this week are expected to show that average wages grew by 1.9-2 per cent in November, representing a further slowdown in the...
Responding to a new report today by the World Economic Forum identifying climate change as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, Friends...
A new system of creating value is starting to have a major impact on our economy, the way we produce, the way we consume and the relationship...
Over the last decade almost $600 billion (£390bn) worth of climate-related bonds have been issued, with the last year seeing a 20% increase, according to the...
In order to meet carbon targets set for 2050 the UK government needs to take action now and set out an ambitious policy package to transform...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
A new report has set out ten key economic opportunities that could help close the emissions gap while allowing economies to continue growing. The paper, from...
In order to “rewire the economy” and build synergy between ecological, social and economic goals there must be an “unprecedented level of cooperation and integration”, Prince...
Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD, has called on governments to rethink the role of coal in energy supply, arguing the scale of investment being...
Investors representing $1.5 trillion (£960bn) in assets under management have issued a statement supporting the White House’s move to reduce methane pollution from the oil and...
One hundred philanthropic trusts, foundations and family offices, with over $5 billion (£3.2bn) in assets under management, have now committed to divesting from fossil fuels and...