Gerald Kutney picks out some of the highlights from his upcoming book, Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol, to be published by Routledge in...
Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has called for governments to take climate change seriously and step up to their responsibilities...
James Gifford, the founding executive director of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), is stepping down from his role in November, it has been announced. The...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon used a speech welcoming the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative to talk about sustainable investment. The full...
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has used a speech at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street to encourage the investment industry to opt...
Blue & Green Tomorrow caught up with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation – the world governing body for the travel and tourism industries – about...
Sir John Stanley, chairman of the House of Commons committee on arms exports control, has raised concerns over licences that were granted by the government in...
Senior UN officials have called on the international community to address social and economic inequalities in order to achieve sustainability. At a General Assembly debate, UN...
A UN fund set up to help developing countries fight the causes and effects of climate change could be ready to launch in 2014, it has...
The last 10 years were the hottest since modern measurements began, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). A new report says the years...
Over 16% of the world’s 7 billion inhabitants lack access to electricity, while a further 40% are forced to rely on wood or biomass for heat...
The role of sustainable transport is vital in creating safe and liveable cities in Asia and fighting climate change, the UN secretary-general said this week in...
A top UN official, José Graziano da Silva, has stressed how the fight against hunger and climate change will depend on the success of sustainable development of...
UN member states will meet in Istanbul over the coming days to discuss the role of forests in ensuring social and economic development. With the ‘Earth’s...
Best-in-class investment means investing in companies that are frontrunners in meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in their particular universe, asset class or category. To...