Former mayor New York City Michael Bloomberg has been named as the new United Nations (UN) envoy for cities and climate change. The billionaire businessman and...
A new study has warned that drug cartels are clearing forests to facilitate their smuggling activities, and causing “narcodeforestation” in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. According to...
More than a third of executive directors at FTSE 100 companies have seen their pay and incentives rise at a quicker pace than company performance, according...
The mayors of 10 US cities have joined forces in an effort to promote energy efficient buildings, saying that reducing waste could lower energy bills by...
In their new book looking at the issue of cheap meat, Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott highlight why the world is heading for a major global...
Ecology Building Society has teamed up with the Plunkett Foundation to launch a bespoke mortgage package specifically for community-owned shops. The initiative aims to tackle the...
Nine universities in London have a combined £7.4m invested in the arms industry. The findings follow an investigation that found very few have strong ethical investment...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has emphasised the important role private investors must play in transforming the global economy onto a low-carbon trajectory. Opening a World Economic...
Russian energy giant Gazprom and textiles firm Gap have been named as the worst businesses for human rights and environment violations at the annual Public Eye...
Climate campaigners have urged the elite individuals attending the World Economic Forum in Davos to recognise “the reality of the carbon bubble” and commit to divestment...
A leading third sector pension fund is launching a review of its investment portfolio in order to understand where there might be “value at risk” –...
A leading thinktank has warned the government that most Britons are not saving enough for their retirement, calling the issue a “pensions timebomb”. Policy Exchange claims...
The Church of England has announced it is unlikely to drop its fossil fuel investments, despite voices within the faith expressing concern about climate change. The...
Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne is a busy and vibrant place for people to live, work, socialise and explore. What come with such a thriving economy...
We want to connect investors and consumers with fast growth, highly innovative sustainable companies. In this second instalment in a new series profiling some of the...