A new online ethical investment platform has launched today, which its founder believes is “the first step in creating a collaborative community of ethical investors”. Ethex allows...
Julie King is an ethical investor. After setting up a private pension, she began looking for ways her money would be able to make a positive...
The resources on which business relies are becoming more difficult to access and more costly. Changing patterns of economic growth and wealth are likely to strain...
In the renewables industry, it’s often the case that campaigners enjoy much of the limelight. But without firms to invest in, install and build the technologies,...
Plans to build a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn have been put into doubt, after a new report claimed that a mixture of...
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...
Few people realise that almost all ethical investing is about what you don’t invest in, not what you do. This is called negative screening and it...
The third property to be featured in Blue & Green Tomorrow’s cottages4you series is Shark Fin, a scenic coastal eco-house in Cornwall. Imagine waking up to...
Sarasin & Partners has researched and written this paper as one of a series which considers the investment implications of environmental, social and governance issues. This...
Mitt Romney is almost certain to be the next Republican Party presidential candidate. But what if he wins? Can the US, governed by Romney’s Grand Old...
A study by US non-profit organisation Net Impact has found that 65% of university students want to make some “positive social or environmental difference” in their...
Figures released by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills show that employment within Low Carbon Environmental Goods and Services (LCEGS) sectors grew to 939,627 in...
The FTSE Group has launched an environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) service unit – a move that it says is a “direct response” to growing...
An Environmental fund is a specific type of thematic fund. It is a fund which invests in companies operating in alternative energy, water purification, waste management,...
Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist at GMO, highlights the green investment opportunities of increased scarcity. In his second quarterly letter of 2011 he discusses pressures on...