Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Croydon Council’s pension committee has decided to move the pension funds of council employees from tobacco to a socially responsible fund, after saying they will get...
American Reynolds and Lorillard are in ongoing talks this week regarding a merger that would redefine big tobacco as a global industry. The move, which would...
The British Medical Association (BMA) has become the first body of its kind to divest from the fossil fuel firms responsible for worsening climate change –...
Regina Schwegler and Judith Reutimann, of Switzerland-based sustainability rating agency Inrate, discuss the role of exclusion screenings in sustainable investment. Excluding certain stocks from an investment...
Five of the largest local authority pension funds have announced a commitment of £152m to the UK social impact investment market. In May last year, the...
More than 100 leading public health specialists from around the world have signed a letter to the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), urging for...
New analysis of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) suggests it has reached the mainstream. In terms of performance, sustainable stocks are already beating their unsustainable counterparts...
More than 600 medical professionals have written to the British Medical Journal expressing concern over the need to hastily publish draft resolutions enforcing plain cigarette packaging....
Scientists have urged regulators not to introduce restrictions on the use of electronic cigarettes, arguing that limiting the use of such products could cost millions of...
Comic Relief has concluded a review into its ethical investment strategy, following revelations last year it invested in companies that appeared to conflict with its mission....
Dunedin City Council has announced it intends to withdraw investment in fossil fuels companies that contribute to climate change, as part of its new ethical investment...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
At a recent sustainable investment event, I inadvertently launched into unscripted criticism of the tobacco industry. This led one delegate to accuse me of dictating “how...
Wales has become the first place in the UK to consider a ban on the use of electronic cigarettes in public places, amid fears of normalising...