Most of the world’s major cities, from London to São Paulo, have warned that climate change presents a very real, physical risk to the businesses that...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Climate change, along with an ageing global population, is a “megatrend” that will impact on sovereign creditworthiness, according to a report from ratings agency Standard &...
An open letter from a group of over 200 organisations has called on the chancellor George Osborne to support co-operatives in order to aid “bottom up...
Significant investment in London’s power supply network will be needed in the coming decades if the capital is to meet future energy demands, according to a...
Economic growth does not always result in social progress, according to a new global study. The research ranks New Zealand as the most socially advanced country...
March 20 is International Day of Happiness, which aims to shift attitudes away from a growing economy being considered as progress, and instead focus on increasing...
Evan Davis’s excellent two-part documentary, Mind the Gap: London v the Rest, which concluded on Monday night, explored the growing economic gap between London and the rest...
China, the world’s biggest polluter, has called on developed countries to do more to lead the fight against climate change, support developing nations and set ambitious...
A new project launched by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) will look at the way we measure economic success. It is...
Using GDP as the sole metric for prosperity is “woefully inadequate”, according to the Worldwatch Institute. Its latest report argues that most approaches to global economic...
An academic who in 1991 published a book outlining the need for alternative measures of economic success or failure has described its recent reissue as “depressing”,...
According to the World Food Programme, “People are considered food secure when they have all-time access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and...
More than 60 countries – including India and China – with a total estimated output of $44 trillion, are at high risk of extreme climate events...
Paul Hawken is a Californian civil rights activist, environmentalist, businessman and author. Fortune named him the “original hippie entrepreneur” in 2002, and he coined the phrase...