Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Sustainable Investment Bootcamp on Thursday raised some fascinating issues. One of the most pervasive myths of sustainable investment is that you must...
A UN sustainable development forum has been set up to provide “political leadership grounded in solid science”, secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said during an inauguration ceremony on...
When it comes to climate change and environmental protection, the Conservative party is often seen as having a big green dividing line down its middle, with...
If ‘living sustainably’ was a colour, it would be green. Green: the colour of the countryside, rolling hills, nature and where being part of your environment...
In delaying climate change action, we are making the biggest dice roll in recent memory, argues Jae Mather. There are three stages people go through in...
Whaling: rugged Scandinavian men with spears and harpoons chasing poor, defenceless whales out of their natural habitat, before slaughtering and eating them. It’s fair to say...
There’s an old Faroese saying – betri er at vera fyrivarin, enn eftirsnarur (it’s better to be prepared than swift afterwards) – that can be used...
It was 7am and the sun in Gjógv, on the northern tip of the Faroe Islands, was peering through the clouds on the horizon, casting a...
“The Faroe Islands: is that near Egypt?” I smiled as I stood in the queue at Gatwick, while the woman I was on the phone with...
It makes an unlikely poster boy, but the blobfish, a rarely seen species of deep-sea fish, has been voted the ‘world’s ugliest animal’ and adopted as...
Investment house Alliance Trust invests in non-fossil fuels, but makes an exception for natural gas, which it describes as a “beneficial transition fuel”. It adds that...
80 percent of Chinese cities are failing to balance economic growth, resource efficiency and sustainable development, a new study has claimed. The research, undertaken by consulting...
Peter Ainsworth looks back on his time working in the investment world with fond nostalgia. But even in 1992 – when he left the industry to...
James Cameron takes a look at the investment portfolios of pensions and urges real alternatives to high-carbon yields. This summer, the archbishop of Canterbury got into...
The governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney recently unveiled new plans to get banks lending to businesses again. But is turning to the same...