Environment

NGOWatch – March 2015

Nadine Hawa, (Mar 10, 2015)

Circular economy’s potential job boost, new campaign to fight the global water crisis, Oxfam’s World Tax Summit, and China’s crackdown on labour advocates

PolicyWatch – March 2015

Stephen Gardner, (Mar 4, 2015)

Grants for electric vehicles, the EU’s improved food labelling, dam suspension in Panama and curbing conflict minerals

Essay: Past, Present and Future: The Road to a Sustainable Agri-sector

Lucas Simons, (Mar 3, 2015)

The palm oil sector is on the verge of important structural change, but it’s still a long way from true sustainability

Infographic: Fossil fuels & emissions

Greg Cohen, (Feb 27, 2015)

Some of the most insightful statistics on the subject of the environment, fossil fuels and emissions as taken from the February 2015 issue of the Ethical Corporation magazine

Analysis: Emissions trading – The EU emissions market: raising the floor

Stephen Gardner, (Feb 9, 2015)

Europe aims to revive its emissions trading system with mechanisms to ensure pollution comes at a price

NGOWatch – February 2015

Nadine Hawa, (Feb 4, 2015)

Greenpeace energy exposé, China fines polluters, ocean plastic debris, and big brands lag behind on sustainable packaging

Analysis: Emissions disclosure – Sharpening the focus on Scope 2

Sam Phipps, (Feb 3, 2015)

New guidance helps companies curb emissions from the electricity they buy

Analysis: Climate talks – Global carbon offsetting makes slow progress

Nadine Hawa, (Jan 6, 2015)

International offsetting mechanisms remained stunted in Lima

Analysis: UN climate conference – A fair COP?

Stephen Gardner, (Jan 5, 2015)

The 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Lima, Peru, emphasised pragmatism over ambition

Green finance fuels hopes of climate deal

Sam Phipps, (Dec 5, 2014)

A batch of positive funding news, in both public and private sectors, has raised hopes of progress at international climate change talks

US-China deal – a climate harbinger?

Jeni Yaghoubi, (Dec 5, 2014)

The US and China have reached a deal on greenhouse emissions. It has its detractors, but some see it as a potential catalyst for a global change of direction

Energy Briefing: Company carbon targets – Paving the road to Paris

Ellen Delisio, (Dec 2, 2014)

It’s time for countries, industries and corporations to put their money where their decarbonisation goals are

Energy Briefing: Investor perspective – The cost of divestment

Ellen Delisio, (Dec 2, 2014)

Pension fund manager KLP announce divestment from companies that "derive a large proportion of their revenues from coal"

NGOWatch – December 2014

Nadine Hawa, (Dec 2, 2014)

Human rights a concern before Baku European games, Mercedes shamed, help with UK household energy bills and Oxfam report on wealth ineqaulity

Analysis: Climate talks – Turning money greener

Eric Marx, (Nov 4, 2014)

Big funds are pulling large sums out of fossil fuel investments, although the momentum towards their green alternatives is gathering only slowly

NGOWatch – November 2014

Jeni Bauser Yaghoubi, (Nov 4, 2014)

Conflict minerals, Oxfam rankings, action on Ebola and forced labour in electronics industry

Business school bulletin – November 2014

Oliver Balch, (Nov 4, 2014)

Expectational gaps and China’s green business drivers

Cambodia’s wage protests: Fashion brands support garment workers

Paul French, (Oct 9, 2014)

While garment workers’ minimum wages are rising in many Asian economies, in Cambodia, unusually, it is western brands that are responding to public pressure, not the government

Scotland leads on zero waste economy

Sam Phipps, (Oct 9, 2014)

Scotland shows independent-mindedness when it comes to the circular economy

Analysis: Tapping the barometer

Eric Marx, (Sep 12, 2014)

Government and business leaders meet this month in preparation for next year’s global climate negotiations, and much has changed since the last such gathering

Pages