A crowdfunding campaign in the US has raised $313,000 (£194,000) in just 24 hours to help finance four solar projects across the country. The company behind...
Rupert Murdoch has given his backing to an article that claims the world is “growing greener” because of the increased presence of carbon dioxide in the...
Nearly 10,000 people have signed an online petition to urge a Canadian magazine to include an ethical investment ranking in its annual university guide, in the...
A group of climate scientists from Austria have concluded that swift political action is needed in order to truly curb international greenhouse gas emissions. The researchers,...
Twenty-six years to the day since rejecting the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) 15% suggested oil price rise, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates...
The government revealed yesterday that the controversial gas extraction technique, hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), would be restarted in the UK. Reaction has been mixed within the...
Waitrose has revealed that its planned partnership with Shell, which would have seen the pair collaborate at petrol stations across the UK, has been put on...
Twelve years ago today, the US Supreme Court gave a ruling that declared George W Bush the country’s 43rd president. Now that the dust has settled...
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column yesterday lauded fracking as “an answer to the nation’s prayers“. But, in a piece that originally appeared on his blog, Tim Fenton unpicks Johnson’s article, which...
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has secured over 30,000 signatures in a petition for supermarket chain Waitrose to drop its affiliation with oil giant Shell. Waitrose announced...
Oil investors could be exposed to “serious financial risk” if they fail to challenge multinational firms over their responsibility, a report by the University of Essex...
A report by responsible investment campaigners FairPensions has ranked 20 of the largest ethical investment houses into a responsibility ranking. Ethical fund providers were scored on...
The excellent Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister gave us three brilliant characters, Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard. It also gave us some perfect one-liners....
The chancellor George Obsorne delivered his fifth set piece financial statement that we’ve covered. He opened with the bold statement that the economy is healing. While...
The UK’s economy would be £20 billion better off by 2030 under a scenario in which offshore wind investment continues steadily, rather than investing heavily in...