To unlock the full potential of our cities and solve pressing problems, we must re-imagine the existing urban infrastructure, says Scott Burnham. Across the world, innovative...
Against a backdrop of urbanisation and increasing environmental and social threats, Miles Davey, co-founder and director of Lewis Davey, writes about the future evolution of our...
The impressive Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London was the location for the Economist Events’ Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, during which a wide range of international...
Seb Beloe, head of sustainability research at WHEB Asset Management, outlines a new model of sustainable investment that is leaving traditional negative screening strategies in its...
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a new initiative to promote ‘smart cities’ across the UK, which are expected to have a...
A range of environmentally-focused companies have financially outperformed the wider industry average over one year, bringing in returns of 29% compared to 16%, according to new...
If ‘living sustainably’ was a colour, it would be green. Green: the colour of the countryside, rolling hills, nature and where being part of your environment...
Pollution in China has reached such extreme levels that the authorities have proposed executing polluters, writes Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management. A recent piece of...
The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has identified some of the biggest challenges faced by the world as the eradication of extreme poverty and promoting sustainable consumption....
Fifteen years ago today, Hong Kong ceased to be governed by Britain and became a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. Nowadays, it...
Economist Peter Henry, dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business, tells Big Think why the future of cities simply must be sustainable. The definition of...
A report by researchers at the University of Westminster has called for worldwide collaboration in attempting to shift the biggest cities on the planet onto a...
A case from environmental law firm Client Earth against the government over its failure to meet legal limits for air quality will be heard today by...
Mexico City’s dramatic transformation of its transport network has seen it recognised with the 2013 Sustainable Transport Award by a panel of global experts. The award,...