MPs have demanded to know how budget cuts to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are going to affect its ability to do...
A new study investigating the details of the finance behind climate change denial has revealed a system of ‘dark money’ and untraceable funding. Environmental sociologist Robert...
A new online platform that allows individuals to pledge money to projects that deliver measurable benefits to communities and the wider society has been launched by...
An alternative finance firm has said that businesses shouldn’t solely rely on banks if they want to grow and help drive the economy forward. Research across...
The Treasury announced on Monday that it would be looking at renewable energy as part of a series of infrastructure development projects worth £33 billion. The...
Santa Clara Valley Water District has withdrawn investment in fossil fuels companies over concern about threats to water supplies caused by global warming. The US water...
There is something in the air. Collaborative working spaces, social innovation, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, impact investing, social impact bonds, venture-philanthropy, social enterprises, triple-bottom lines, social return...
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have returned a £520,000 donation left to “whichever government is in office” by an elderly woman in her will. The parties...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Philanthropy & Giving 2013. Whereas in the past we’ve focused on investment, banking and the stock market, our latest report...
Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Philanthropy & Giving 2013. Whereas in the past we’ve focused on investment, banking and the stock market, our...
Tony Poulter, partner and global head of consulting at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has been named as senior independent director of the Green Investment Bank (GIB)...
On Wednesday, David Cameron and Ed Miliband traded blows on each other’s party funding structure. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) will on Thursday say MPs’...
The firm behind the “world’s first” tidal lagoon at Swansea Bay in Wales has signed a memorandum of understanding with a manufacturer of hydroelectricity equipment, as...
Community funding platform Abundance Generation has launched a new solar energy project in Kent that allows investors to pledge as little as £5 to help fund...
Crowdfunding is one of the best ways for small businesses with brilliant ideas to raise much-needed finance early on in their existence. Think of it as...