The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) has produced a consultation paper that would force firms listed on global stock exchanges to reveal their environmental, social...
Human rights group Amnesty International has questioned Sweden’s pension fund over its investment in companies that produce drugs used for executions. The organisation claims that the...
Three years ago today, the world experienced the largest oil spill in history, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, releasing...
Global clean energy investment in the first three months of 2013 dropped to a four-year low, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). BNEF’s...
Implementation and impact of policy related to climate change has significantly increased over the last decade according to a new study by the Climate Policy Initiative....
The huge US drought in 2012 wasn’t a result of human-induced climate change, according to scientists. Last summer was the driest in recorded history in the...
Three Gulf Coast residents travelled to the UK last week to reveal the continued devastating effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to BP’s board and...
Crowdfunding is becoming an ever-more popular way for entrepreneurs and small-scale projects to raise vital funds needed to kickstart their business. We owe a lot to...
A new online course, Fundamentals of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, has been launched to help US financial advisers incorporate sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) into clients’...
South Korean authorities have said that they haven’t detected any suspicious activities at the Punggye-ri site where it was thought the North was running nuclear tests....
A study has said that New York City could be powered by energy from wind, solar and hydro technologies with intelligent and long-sight investment into renewables. With...
Climate scientist James Hansen announced this week that he would be retiring from his role at NASA to focus more on climate activism. His decision couldn’t...
Asian countries are cutting their emissions faster than many European nations, according to the Climate Institute/GE Low-Carbon Competitiveness Index. The Climate Institute’s report, analysing data from...
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors...
The US interior department has banned oil giant Shell from extracting fossil fuels from Arctic waters until it can prove it is 100% able to deal...