According to the textbooks, CSR – corporate social responsibility – is broadly defined as a voluntary commitment from business to embrace responsibility for its actions and...
An article we wrote in February, Free markets need to be free, prompted a little Twitter debate when published. There is the honestly and strongly held belief...
A recent report by a coalition of religious institutions sought to dispel a number of myths relating to poverty. Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level: Why More...
1807 was a year of great progress in the battle against slavery. The US passed an act prohibiting the importation of slaves, and the UK banned...
Scientists have argued that world leaders need to introduce six new sustainable development goals (SDGs) to achieve global sustainability. Following UN meetings earlier this month, a study...
March 22 is World Water Day, an annual event that supports global sustainable water management and raises awareness of the planet’s ever-increasing dependence on clean water....
Sustainable investment house Impax Asset Management has said that investors should be looking at how to tackle future water-related challenges, as part of World Water Day...
Greed, selfishness, recklessness, inequality and isolation seem to be the hallmarks of our modern world. Yet philanthropy, charitable giving, volunteering and social enterprise are stable or growing. Doing...
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 gave his fourth budget statement as chancellor of the exchequer in parliament this afternoon, but his speech was light on support for the green...
George Osborne offered tax breaks for shale gas developments, scrapped a rise in fuel duty and gave backing to more new roads, in a budget statement...
After the publication of R Edward Freeman’s Strategic management: a stakeholder approach in 1984, a divide was formed between those businesses that believed that long-term profits...
A report by researchers at the University of Westminster has called for worldwide collaboration in attempting to shift the biggest cities on the planet onto a...
Given it’s International Women’s Day, who better to feature in this week’s TED talk than the queen of the jungle herself, Dame Jane Goodall? Filmed in...
If our Guide to Sustainable Investment 2013 has whet your appetite for essential intelligence, we recommend reading the following six excellent books on the subject. – Investing...