Pension funds need to go further in avoiding the financial risks posed by climate change which directly affect their savers and investors, according to a major...
Investors believe that current investment risk calculation “undervalues” how climate change could affect some stocks in their portfolios, according to a new report by the think...
We’re hearing a lot about rising energy bills and whether ‘green taxes’ are to blame. Sarah Butler-Sloss, Ashden founder director, doesn’t think so. Let’s get real. As...
New analysis by Friends of the Earth has said that because the planet houses more carbon than we can safely burn, the UK government must be...
A Dutch artist has designed a system that he says could solve China’s air pollution problem, using what is essentially a giant static vacuum cleaner. Daan...
An alliance of 70 major investors with a collective $3 trillion (£1.85 trillion) of assets has called on the world’s largest fossil fuels firms to explain...
Campaigners marched outside HSBC’s Canary Wharf HQ on Tuesday to deliver the bank a box of coal. The gift was used as a symbol in calls...
The classic German legend of Faust, popularised in the 1806 play by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe but perfected two centuries earlier (1592) by William Shakespeare’s contemporary...
Carbon dioxide emissions related to energy consumption in the US fell to the lowest point for nearly two decades in 2012, according to a new report....
Two separate studies have found that the controversial process of fracking may cause less direct environmental damage than its critics have suggested, but might not have...
Gary Horvitz, an activist working on 350.org’s divestment campaign in the US, looks at why Harvard University is so seemingly reluctant to ditch its investments in...
Mike McGinn, the mayor of Seattle, has responded to Harvard University president Drew Faust’s comments on the pitfalls of fossil fuels divestment, saying that it’s a...
The UK government has announced plans to make the UK “a global centre of expertise” in opening up the Arctic to exploitation by oil and gas...
Investment bank Citi’s new Energy Darwinism report predicts that 71% of the money invested in power generation between now and 2035 will be in renewables or...
As student campaign group People & Planet prepares for its Fossil Free UK tour, others across the country are speaking out against universities investing in the...