Institutional investors increasingly moving towards low-carbon technologies and social investment are both amongst the environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment trends to watch in 2015, according...
The UK government’s chief scientist Mark Walport has warned of the need to thoroughly look at the potential risks of innovations, including fracking, or risk unforeseen...
Today’s renewable technologies alone will not be able to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to halt climate change, Ross Koningstein and David Fork, both engineers at...
Ahead of Europe’s largest consumer technology show, to be hosted in Berlin this week, Greenpeace has analysed the environmental progress being made by companies attending the...
The amount of money invested in renewables could decrease in the years ahead because of policy uncertainty, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned in a...
Last year global capacity for renewable power grew at its fastest pace to date, with almost 22% of power generation coming from clean sources, data in...
According to a paper from UBS, the world’s largest private bank, the solar industry is set to transform energy systems over the next two decades and...
Addressing climate change could deliver better living standards and shared prosperity, according to a report from thinktank IPPR. Whilst tackling climate change is an important goal...
The government’s former energy and climate change minister has called for a “relentless and remorseless” push to drive down the costs of renewable energy technologies –...
US entrepreneur Troy Wiseman tells Alex Blackburne about his mission to make bamboo the natural world’s next disruptive technology – while making money, providing deforestation-free solutions...
The United Nations Green Climate Fund (GCF) is now ready to collect funds and mobilise finance to tackle issues around climate change adaption and mitigation, it...
In 2025, solar will be the largest source of energy on the planet, electric air transport will be a mainstream consideration and food shortages will be...
I still have in my head the notion that sustainability means green, green means countryside, and countryside means something nostalgic – a remote unreality for most...
Most internet hackers are trying to create a better world for society, says cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari in this week’s featured TED talk. Elazari, an analyst at the...
Unsustainable practices around resources risk future economic growth, price volatility and negative environmental impacts, a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) states. The report...