The financial value of carbon stored in the world’s forests may have been seriously underestimated, according to the findings of a new survey. Using a pioneering...
Leading companies including Shell, Unilever and EDF Energy have written to prime minister David Cameron, urging him to maintain the UK’s fourth carbon budget to strengthen...
A new online mapping tool launched to monitor global deforestation in “near-real time” has been welcomed by businesses, who say it will help encourage sustainability and...
The younger generation of jobseekers is increasingly selecting positions within businesses that hold similar ethical values to them, according to Mark Price, managing director of Waitrose...
Alex Blackburne speaks to Penny Walker: author, environmentalist and inspirational sustainability change agent. “It wasn’t so much that I suddenly realised there was a problem; it...
Businesses must be more than just numbers on a balance sheet, says Harish Manwani in this week’s featured TED talk. Manwani is chief operating officer at...
A new study has found that more than half of corporations are emitting unsustainable levels of CO2 when the figures are assessed from a science perspective....
Many who know the man will find this hard to believe but, by his own admission, Will Day describes himself as a slow learner. In fact,...
An alliance of over 100 organisations, including major businesses, investors, charities and trade associations, has urged the UK government to listen to the recommendations of the...
Wilmar, the world’s biggest palm oil company, has launched a new ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy in order to improve its sustainability credentials. The...
Survivors of Christmas spending are being encouraged to start the holiday season with a charitable spirit, by a viral campaign, backed by prominent philanthropists such as...
Paul Polman, chief executive of the consumer goods group Unilever, has become the first sitting CEO of a major multinational company to be awarded the WWF...
Swiss sustainability rating agency Inrate has released a new index that ranks Stoxx Europe 50 companies on their environmental and social performances. Companies from the clothing,...
The World Bank, together with the UK, US and Norway, has launched a new BioCarbon Fund initiative to slow down deforestation through sustainable farming and landscape...
Anglo-Dutch consumer goods firm Unilever has announced that by the end of 2014, any palm oil in its products will be traceable in order to determine...