Four Swedish AP national pension funds have announced they will drops shares in four companies criticised for their negative environmental and social records. Following the suggestions...
A leading climate scientist has warned that attempts to use global financial markets in the fight against climate change are “doomed to failure”. After the release...
Anti-fracking protestors have begun to shut down their camp outside an exploratory drilling site near the West Sussex village of Balcombe. After two months of protests,...
Some of the UK’s biggest banks have come under fire for funding the Indonesian coal boom, which campaigners say is damaging the environment and threatening the...
The chancellor George Osborne has said that he does not want the UK to be at the forefront of efforts to prevent climate change, as the...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report says unequivocally that human activity is causing global warming. Here’s how its contents have been reported by...
The French government has said a carbon tax will be introduced in the country next year that is expected to generate some €4 billion (£3.3 billion)...
The UK has been named as one the top five countries with the most sustainable national energy systems in the world. In the annual index compiled...
Climate change-focused religious group Operation Noah has called on churches to ditch their assets in fossil fuels and take the lead in ethical investment. Its new...
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has scooped 41.5% of the votes in the German general election, and will now look to form a majority government...
Norway has stepped up measures across the country to develop a full-scale carbon capture and storage project by 2020, according to ministers. The decision was announced...
In delaying climate change action, we are making the biggest dice roll in recent memory, argues Jae Mather. There are three stages people go through in...
Twenty-five Greenpeace activists are being held at gunpoint after a protest in Russia. The country’s coastguard boarded the activists’ ship in the Barents Sea, as campaigners...
With India set to fast-track almost 100 new hydropower plants, and as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in America prepares to issue further hydroelectric projects across...
David Nicholls, a private investor, explains what motivated him to put money into the John Cleveland College (JCC) Community Woodheat Co-operative. Like most savers I’ve been despairing...