In September, Canada’s Globe and Mail’s Inside the Market columnist questioned FTSE4Good’s decision to drop BP from their index following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He may have...
Chasing Ice, a documentary film by Jeff Orlowski, is released in UK cinemas tomorrow (December 14). But beneath its beautifully-crafted images of some of the world’s...
As we reported on Saturday, the responsible investment campaign group FairPensions has released a challenging report on the state of ethical funds. The critical but welcome...
Up until this year, I banked with HSBC. I’d done so since receiving a shiny red money box from them at the age of seven. It...
Will and Sally Sutcliffe are ethical investors. Their investment journey began in the late ‘90s when they inherited a “sizeable sum” of money that they realised...
The Arctic is found to have surpassed a number of records in 2012, including for sea ice loss, snow cover and Greenland ice sheet melting, according...
A piece in The Guardian last week posed the question, “Where can investors who worry about climate change put their pension?” and claimed that many ethical funds...
Starbucks, Amazon and Google are among those to be criticised for avoiding tax in a report published by the House of Commons’ public accounts committee. The...
The government has gone some way to provide investment confidence and certainty in the UK energy market, after publishing its long-awaited energy bill this morning. Energy...
A Northern Irish member of the legislative assembly (MLA) has taken part in a ceremony to mark the start of work on the country’s first community-owned...
The internet is a marvellous thing. But as it’s progressed, it’s inevitably become smarter, to the point where search results are now intricately tailored to suit...
As climate talks get underway in Doha, environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that severe flooding in the UK should “wake up” world leaders...
Last week’s energy bill announcement led to media headlines about increased household bills from subsidising renewables. What the media fails to mention is the scandalous subsidy...
The government has decided against including a decarbonisation target in the forthcoming energy bill, delaying the decision until at least 2016. An announcement by the Department...
Forty-nine years ago today, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Just over a year earlier, he made his seminal “we choose to go to the moon” speech...