The Scottish government has brushed off claims that the country’s independence would jeopardise its ambitious renewable energy targets. According to a UK Economic and Social Research...
Scotland’s plan to produce 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 is unlikely if the country becomes independent, according to an academic report. Energy...
Lancashire county council’s pension fund has invested £12m in the UK’s first community-owned solar development in South Oxfordshire. Westmill, which is also believed to be the...
Good Energy, the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, is funding a PhD course in renewable energy at Birkbeck, University of London. Over the course of...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will pay penalties totalling over £390m to three regulators for its role in fixing the Libor rate, it was revealed...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013, which take place in London on March 21, will be complemented by a conference called Fostering relationships between cleantech,...
Ethical investment is becoming the chosen vehicle for many investors who demand more than just financial growth from their money, writes James Howard of Emerald Knight....
In January, years of planning finally came to fruition as Good Energy launched the UK’s first local tariff for those living near one of its wind farms...
Europe’s capacity to anticipate social and environmental disasters “appears to be limited” according to a comprehensive report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) last week. Raj Thamotheram offers...
On the night of January 31 1953, a high spring tide and a cyclonic windstorm created a storm surge that raised sea levels by 5.6 metres...
Companies with good environmental, social and governance (ESG) records are more likely to strike deals with private equity firms, according to research released earlier this month....
Co-operative Asset Management’s £750m range of ethical funds will no longer invest in Barclays, following concerns regarding the bank’s involvement in rigging the Libor rate. Barclays...
An article published in the British Medical Journal last week said that 40% of girls born this year will live to the age of 100 – with...
Martin Ellis is an ethical investor. Despite having only begun his investment journey three or four years ago, it was clear to him from the off...
Last year, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US found that the Arctic sea ice cover was at its lowest ever point....