An agreement has been signed between Macquarie Capital and DONG Energy to acquire a 50% and 35% ownership interest respectively in the Taiwanese offshore wind project Formosa 1...
Although it doesn’t feel so long ago, it has been two years since I wrote about the mounting risk of investing in fossil fuels; in short,...
Global food systems are increasingly susceptible to acute disruption and systemic shocks could lead to food price rises, food riots and changes in stock market values....
Another boat capsizes and 800 people drown. Many of those who died were children, trapped deep in the hold of the boat. Their final moment would...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said in a new report that the falling cost of photovoltaic (PV) technology is likely to make solar power the...
As the global population grows food supply may be unable to meet rising demand, with potentially devastating impacts for countries already reliant on imports, a new...
The Dutch public employees’ pension fund ABP has ignored an appeal from activists, including South Africa’s Desmund Tutu as well as 1.8 million petition signatories, to...
India’s less iconic species, such as pangolins and tortoises, are being hunted or illegally traded, according to campaigners who say that more conservation efforts are needed...
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), as part of an ongoing investigation into the business’ illegal bribery practices, now faces claims that it bribed Syrian distributors to increase...
Conflict has always been a lucrative business, as battles tend to use and destroy a lot of things that need to be replaced. But as the human...
The Middle East is again engulfed in conflict as US president Barack Obama has ordered airstrikes against Iraqi militants and the ceasefire in Gaza has ended. ...
As the conflict in Gaza intensifies with no end in sight, campaigners are urging investors of all types to ditch their holdings in companies profiting from...
Up to two thirds of cheetah cubs are being smuggled through Africa to be sold as luxury pets in the Middle East, putting the species at...
The fate of the conflicts in Iraq and Syria could be decided by one of the world’s most important resources – water – security experts have...
Speculation, evacuation and an escalation in fighting between Iraqi governmental troops and rebel Sunni fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have unsettled...