The University of California (UC) has agreed to take environmental issues into account over investment decisions but has not considered the option of total divestment from...
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 government has outlined an action plan to ensure a global climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ahead of UN conference in Paris in 2015...
A campaign launched by a coalition of teachers, charities and publishers has revealed that 40% of poorer children in the UK are not proficient readers, with...
The workforce of the UK’s cities is becoming increasingly divided between high and low wage jobs, with opportunities in the middle fading and social mobility failing,...
By prioritising profits over the needs of smallholder farmers, agricultural public-private partnerships (PPS) across Africa may be worsening poverty, the Fairtrade Foundation has warned. In a new...
Governments, businesses, NGOs and investors have met in Addis Abeba during the African Green Revolution Forum to discuss economic opportunities for the continent’s agricultural sector, as...
Last year global capacity for renewable power grew at its fastest pace to date, with almost 22% of power generation coming from clean sources, data in...
Responsible investment charity ShareAction has warned that investors should be concerned by Shell’s revived plans to drill in the Arctic, after the oil giant admitted it...
A leaked draft report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the impacts of climate change may soon be irreversible. The draft,...
New research has linked higher numbers of reported flooding cases in the UK to urban expansion and population growth rather than climate change. A study from...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned that South Asian economies face a 8.8% loss in their annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2100, because of...
As investors begin to ask for more information around the risks of high-cost oil projects, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) has revealed that some of the...
Arapaima, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, has been fished to extinction in some communities in South America, a new study has found. The arapaima...
Climate change could be affecting circulation patterns in the atmosphere leading to more extreme weather events during summer, including heatwaves, according to new research from a...