Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Climate Change 2013. As one of the defining issues not just of our generation, but of recent human history, manmade...
News broke recently that Amazon pays just £2.4m tax on £4.2 billion sales. Meanwhile, the public accounts committee hauled Google in to explain its tax position....
BT, Vodafone and biopharmaceutical firm Astrazeneca have made it into the top three of a new ranking that grades firms based on their greenhouse gas emissions,...
In the mid-90s, City analyst and fund manager Michael Gill came up with an idea to score companies based on their environmental performance – an environmental...
A study has revealed that the amount of financial information in FTSE 100 companies’ annual reports has declined 7% since the financial crisis in 2008 –...
High net-worth investor confidence has risen to its highest level in three years, according to research by financial advisory firm the deVere Group. The organisation found...
Two of the world’s most prominent share indices – the Dow Jones and FTSE 100 – climbed to highs unseen for a number of years on...
With 2.2 million readers daily and 4.5 million registered users, the Financial Times (FT) is the preeminent business news and information organisation globally. Little did James...
A piece in The Guardian last week posed the question, “Where can investors who worry about climate change put their pension?” and claimed that many ethical funds...
A report by responsible investment campaigners FairPensions has highlighted that despite a government consultation on excessive executive pay, 72% of institutional investors opposed plans for a...
A group of high-profile investors has called for a number of FTSE 350-listed companies that have performed poorly in reducing carbon in the past, to implement...
The financial crisis was caused in part by a moral crisis in society, in which governments made promises they could not keep and bankers sold products...
Twenty-five years ago today, Michael Fish made his fateful on-air dismissal of rumours that there was a “hurricane on the way”. A hurricane certainly was on...
Sixty-nine per cent of FTSE 350 companies have submitted greenhouse gas emissions data to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its annual Climate Change Report, with...
FairPensions is to host a training event in London in November, in order to encourage employees and shareholders to campaign for responsible investment within their pension...