As Qatar prepares to host the World Cup in 2022, it has announced labour reforms following accusations of forced labour, exploitation and modern slavery. The proposals...
Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, writes how new planned powers for HMRC flout crucial Magna Carta principles. Plans to allow Britain’s tax authorities, HMRC,...
The Chinese government has passed the first amendments to its environmental protection laws since their introduction 25 years ago, adding tougher penalties for polluters in the...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Two seemingly unrelated events suggest we might be at a tipping point for discussions about climate change. What does Russia’s effective capture of Crimea and a...
Two submissions to the Law Commission on fiduciary duty say the law gives investment trustees the ability to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. However,...
George Latham, managing partner of WHEB Asset Management, writes how Comic Relief could have avoided the recent criticism of its investment strategy with a more informed...
It is 29 years to the day since a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands and impacted countless others....
At the start of National Ethical Investment Week, the sustainable investment industry was left reeling from the shock revelation that some funds would actually be banned (from...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
A sub-committee of a pre-Norman institution will discuss a medieval legal instrument on Wednesday, in the hope of using it to regulate a modern newspaper industry....
Twenty-two of the activists arrested by Russian authorities aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise will be held in jail for two months without charge, a Murmansk...
The Greenpeace activists who attempted to board a Russian oil rig are “obviously not pirates”, according to the country’s president Vladimir Putin. However, he insists they...
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is close to arriving at the port of Murmansk after being boarded by Russian authorities last week. The environmental group’s lawyers...