Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has announced it is “putting the building blocks in place” to restart drilling for oil in the Arctic in 2014, after being...
Financial services giant Morgan Stanley has launched a new institute that it hopes will help mobilise private capital towards sustainable investment, and direct $1 billion to...
Unilever, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer, each of which are renowned for placing a strong emphasis on sustainability and responsible business, are among the top...
We will “[continue] to have regard for the highest standards of ethical principles”, the Co-operative Bank stated in an advert on Monday. This is despite being...
Climate change will threaten the world’s food supply in coming decades, damaging production while demand is expected to soar, scientists say. According to the New York...
The world is on track to use up its carbon budget for the rest of the century – which researchers say must not be exceeded if...
David Bent, director of sustainable business at Forum for the Future, describes the new frontier for leading companies. In my 10 years at Forum for the Future,...
In 2008, financial adviser Filip Slipaczek made the headlines. Ethical investment, he said, “is no longer within the domain of the lentil-chewing sandal-wearing lefties of the 1960s....
The world is in danger of making the same mistakes with sub-prime carbon assets as it did with the sub-prime mortgages that led to the financial...
Halloween is a big business. In the UK between 2001 and 2010, retailers reported an astronomical rise in Halloween-related spending, from £12m to £280m. This year,...
Fashion brand Komodo has sustainability and fair trade at the heart of its business. It is considered one of the pioneers of ethical fashion. Joe Komodo...
The impressive Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London was the location for the Economist Events’ Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, during which a wide range of international...
A report from Greenpeace suggests that pulp and paper firm APP is moving towards sustainability within its supply chain. In February this year, APP launched its...
Major pension funds and investors that already see the long-term financial risks associated with investing in high-carbon industries are “ahead of the curve”, according to pensions...
On Thursday last week, I had probably my most positive and interesting meeting with a fund manager, when I met Charlie Thomas of Jupiter Ecology fund,...