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...
Over 21,000 people have signed a petition, created by a 15-year-old girl, against national curriculum changes that will prevent climate change from being taught to under-14s....
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...
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 is set to celebrate green energy and clean technology innovators, entrepreneurs and investors in a ceremony at the London...
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 offered tax breaks for shale gas developments, scrapped a rise in fuel duty and gave backing to more new roads, in a budget statement...
George Osborne could “mobilise billions for investment in sustainable sectors” by installing tax incentives for green ISAs, according to two leading sustainable finance organisations. The chancellor will...
A collaborative project by sustainable investment specialists RobecoSAM and climate change reporting platform the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is set to make it easier for investors...
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV) has announced that Melbourne, Australia, will host its ethical banking conference next year. Twenty-two of the world’s leading...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 take place on Thursday in London, and are preceded this year by a conference for the first time. Alex...
The budget takes place this Wednesday. Faced with the loss of the UK’s AAA rating and the inexorably rising public debt, the chancellor will feel his...
Forty per cent of investors from Australia and New Zealand have said that their superannuation funds should take into account environmental and ethical impacts, according to...
UN officials have stressed that challenges around eradicating poverty and promoting education, social development and health, “must be addressed” in the sustainable development goals (SDGs). After...