The majority of British citizens think that addressing climate change while also promoting economic growth should be the government’s priority, according to a poll by Carbon...
Solar crowdfunding website SunFunder has been announced as the winner of the Cleantech Goes Social competition, organised and run by Facebook and Cleantech Group. After being named...
Populist, pandering and pathetic are all adjectives that lend themselves to George Osborne’s fourth budget speech. Entrepreneurs, businesses, scientists, local communities, parents and NGOs will be rightly dismayed....
George Osborne is set to give his 2013 budget speech next Wednesday, March 20 – and now’s your chance to tell us what you want the...
The recent growth in popularity and size of impact investment shows that social and environmental challenges can be tackled using finance. Through impact investing, individuals decide...
Whether the businesses involved are in environment protection, human rights or clean energy, socially responsible investment (SRI) can provide the right balance between investors’ interests and...
Samuel Johnson once said, “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” So how would the threat...
A record number of investors have asked more than 5,000 of the world’s biggest listed companies to report their carbon emissions and climate change strategies through...
Companies with good environmental, social and governance (ESG) records are more likely to strike deals with private equity firms, according to research released earlier this month....
A new online ethical investment platform has launched today, which its founder believes is “the first step in creating a collaborative community of ethical investors”. Ethex allows...
The mainstream financial services sector is suffering from a lack of new talent, according to a major survey of the industry. But for budding bankers, there...
The resources on which business relies are becoming more difficult to access and more costly. Changing patterns of economic growth and wealth are likely to strain...
A recent survey has predicted that impact investment – which focuses on the difference that can be made by investing – will grow by 12.5% in...
The United Kingdom has the seventh largest economy in the world measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), down from fifth in 1979. Despite our slow overall...
Few people realise that almost all ethical investing is about what you don’t invest in, not what you do. This is called negative screening and it...