The Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC) has launched the London Principles – a statement of intent that looks to give purpose and direction to the industry....
Leading multinational energy firms Chevron and ExxonMobil are lagging well behind competitors when it comes to addressing sustainability issues, according to a new study, which says...
Some 2,436 City bankers received annual wages in excess of £870,000 in 2011, according to the European Banking Authority (EBA), as the row over excessive pay...
François Hollande has reaffirmed that France will not support fracking for as long as he is president, after a ban was placed on all shale gas...
A conference is to be held in October, where the issue of internet privacy will be discussed in relation to sustainable and responsible investment (SRI). The...
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has signed a letter, together with other influential NGOs and institutions, calling for a review of resource depletion,...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC),a subsidiary of the World Bank, has begun the first round of financing for start-up businesses in the clean technology industry. The...
Twenty-eight years ago today, French secret service agents blew up the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, killing one man. The tragedy took place in Auckland harbour. The...
Twenty-two years ago today, after the Bank of England’s Operation Sandstorm inquiry uncovered “widespread fraud and manipulation”, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was...
The Church of England will consider whether to completely divest from fossil fuels, after the diocese of Southwark passed a resolution backing such a move. The...
Bill McKibben and his team at 350.org have done something that at one point it seemed inconceivable the environmental movement would ever do again. He has...
We’re all too familiar about the power of money to generate ever greater inequality. But Niall Cooper asks whether we can turn the power of money on...
American anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous quote about a “small group of thoughtful, committed people” being the only thing that has ever changed the world could have...
It is almost five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but only now are we seeing the first stirrings of something that was almost universally...
As Russia partners with Shell to exploit natural resources in the Arctic, Greenpeace has claimed that oil companies from the country spill over 30m barrels a...