Over 1,900 companies from 44 countries are being encouraged by a coalition of institutional investors worth $3.3 trillion to join the UN Global Compact as part...
The majority of British citizens think that addressing climate change while also promoting economic growth should be the government’s priority, according to a poll by Carbon...
Ethical Consumer magazine and the Rainforest Foundation have collaborated to rank over 70 chocolate brands from the UK, based on their rainforest-friendly performance. Divine Chocolate and...
George Osborne gave his fourth budget statement as chancellor of the exchequer in parliament this afternoon, but his speech was light on support for the green...
Forty-six years ago today, over 10,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the supertanker Torrey Canyon and into waters just off the south-west coast of England...
After kicking off this series profiling environmentally-minded politicians yesterday with Marina Silva of Brazil, Charlie Wood writes about Haïdar El Ali, the Senegalese ecology minister, who...
Green investment supports companies that provide and sustain environmentally-friendly practices and products, so when you make a green investment, you act with both your principles and...
Over the next month, Charlie Wood will be profiling various politicians that have gone to great lengths to push environmental policies to the fore. First up...
Given it’s International Women’s Day, who better to feature in this week’s TED talk than the queen of the jungle herself, Dame Jane Goodall? Filmed in...
The recent growth in popularity and size of impact investment shows that social and environmental challenges can be tackled using finance. Through impact investing, individuals decide...
Samuel Johnson once said, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” So how would the threat...
A record number of investors have asked more than 5,000 of the world’s biggest listed companies to report their carbon emissions and climate change strategies through...
David Cameron has outlined that the UK must be doing what is right for both the planet and the economy, in one of his most promising...
Companies with good environmental, social and governance (ESG) records are more likely to strike deals with private equity firms, according to research released earlier this month....
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) mission is displayed across many walls in Davos, Switzerland: “Committed to improving the state of the world”. Emma Websdale rounds up...