World bond market sets quarterly record after boom in first-half activity August 8, 2019 The world’s green bond market hit a record quarterly high in the last three months, as investor appetite in environmental assets picked up pace. Issuers brought $66.6bn (£54.8bn) of green bonds to market globally in the second quarter of 2019, propelling issuance in the first half of the year and shattering records. Read more: Climate [...]
Extinction Rebellion threatens to gatecrash London Fashion Week in latest climate change protest August 7, 2019 Extinction Rebellion have threatened to disrupt London Fashion Week, saying the annual star-studded event is a huge risk to the environment. Activists warned they “must take matters into our own hands” if the British Fashion Council does not cancel the show. Read more: Police ban Extinction Rebellion’s boats from London protests The climate change protest [...]
Men-u’s mission to fix the cosmetic industry’s plastic problem July 31, 2019 There are no two ways about it: the cosmetic industry has a problem with plastic. Most households are plugged with rows of cosmetics, largely contained in single-use plastic pots. Globally, the beauty industry produces more than 120bn units of packaging every year, the majority of which is not recyclable, according to Zero Waste Week. This [...]
Stop all that corporate drivel and get to the point July 29, 2019 Lots of recent heavy-duty research suggests that millennials and generation Z are different from other consumers. According to such studies, these younger generations care more about ethical issues and the environment, they want to know what their pensions and investments are being used for, and they want to buy from companies that have a higher [...]
The Metropolitan Police’s website and Twitter suffer from bizarre hack July 20, 2019 The Metropolitan Police’s website was hacked on Friday night as it posted a series of bizarre emails and tweets. A stream of unusual emails were sent from the force’s press office at around 23:30 BST last night. Read more: Police open probe into ambassador’s leaked Trump emails While a number of tweets, which have since [...]
Police ban Extinction Rebellion’s boats on last day of London protests July 19, 2019 Extinction Rebellion’s trademark boats have been banned from London protests on the climate change activists’ last day of planned summer action. The protesters’ boats – daubed in bright colours and with the group’s signature logo – have grown into a symbol of their disruption in key locations around London. Read more: The Extinction Rebels seem [...]
The Extinction Rebels seem to care more about capitalism than climate July 19, 2019 If your commute to work this week has been blocked by a giant colourful boat, you have Extinction Rebellion (XR) to thank. The self-defined “non-violent civil disobedience activist movement” has begun its summer of disruption, shutting down traffic in five UK cities to protest against climate change “inaction”. A worthy and vital attempt to safeguard [...]
Hard going: Extinction Rebellion targets London’s largest concrete factory July 16, 2019 Extinction Rebellion has voiced its anger over climate change outside the Houses of Parliament, the Bank of England, and the Royal Courts of Justice in recent months. But today demonstrators in the capital descended upon a less typical place of protest: London’s largest concrete factory. Read more: Extinction Rebellion launches summer uprising across the UK [...]
Extinction Rebellion launches ‘summer uprising’ across the UK July 15, 2019 Climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion has today launched a wave of protests, taking to the streets in five cities across the UK. The group said it aims to cause “major disruption” in London, Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and Glasgow as part of a so-called summer uprising. Read more: Extinction Rebellion threatens to use drone in [...]
Oil and gas companies have no reason to fear divestment July 11, 2019 Petrol heads pay good money at the pumps