Investment

Investment in insulating homes was cut in 2013 and the rate at which homes are being improved is currently at its lowest level for more than a decade.

Parliamentarians and NGOs across Europe have signed joint statements calling for public development banks to respect human rights and stop funding fossil fuels.

A draft bill which aimed to unlock the opportunity for co-operatives to invest in green, sustainable projects to benefit communities had to be withdrawn following lack of support from government.

Councils lead charge to ‘build back greener’ by launching UK’s first local government green bond.

Climate-conscious consumers could be unknowingly investing £16 billion in fossil fuels through their ISAs.

Financial connections between some of the world’s most controversial corporations and leading UK engineering and science organisations uncovered in new research.

Greenpeace shuts down 100 Barclays branches demanding it stops its support for oil, gas and coal companies.

Call for answers over British government financing of palm oil firm’s actions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

UK’s first post-subsidy community solar farm completed.

Biggest asset managers collectively fail to drive forward action to support climate targets.

A total of 45 percent of investors say they would move their money to an ethical fund.

On the political power of investment.

Major high street banks among investors driving billions of dollars into companies involved in deforestation.

Investment services are going unaccounted for in the fight against climate crisis, but with awareness comes action.

Fossil fuels increasingly offer a poor return on energy investment, new study finds.

Businesses and consumers need to be led by a sense of 'ecopragmatism'.

Abundance has raised £7million for Orbital Marine Power and the world’s most powerful tidal stream turbine.

Local authority pension funds continue to invest in dirty oil and gas.

Financial industries and regulators must consider the ethics of investments, particularly when it comes to climate change.

Tomorrow (Saturday) thousands of people will go to Hyde Park to join The People’s Walk for Wildlife to demonstrate support for action to reverse the collapse in nature going on all around us. TONY JUNIPER reports

Community leaders from Colombia, the Philippines and Uganda have been in London challenging attendees of the Mines and Money Conference. HANNIBAL RHOADES, TATIANA GARAVITO and SEBASTIAN ORDONEZ report.

New data from Fossil Free UK reveals the shocking extent of investment in fossil fuels by UK council pension funds despite the risks. BRENDAN MONTAGUE explores the changes that need to be made in order to avoid climate catastrophe.

New polling out today shows that the public are fed up with banks that profit from polluting the environment. It’s time they heed the warning from their customers, reports JOE WARE.

Investment is one way to ensure your impact on the environment is as positive as possible - and may even change the attitudes and behaviours of the industries where green investment takes hold. All investments involve risk and you can lose your money. But some claim to have less impact on the environment, says BECKY O'CONNOR