In a speech given by Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney at the Arthur Burns Memorial Lecture in Berlin, Carney reiterated his concerns that climate change will impose a cost on future generations that ‘the current one has no direct incentive to fix’.

Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, has reported that its match funding for refugee relief efforts has now raised more than $16.5 million.

A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, World Energy Investment 2016, provides a detailed analysis of investment across the global energy system, reporting a drop in energy investment of 8 per cent in 2015, with oil and gas upstream spending reductions outweighing and masking a significant rise in investment in renewables, electricity networks and energy efficiency.

Over half of the UK’s major NGOs and charities have concerns that Brexit will have a negative impact on corporate partnerships, according to a report released today by C&E Advisory.

The Electrolux Group has announced its ambition is to contribute more in addressing major global challenges such as hunger, poor nutrition, food waste and responsible consumption, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is calling on asset owners and managers around the world to place their capital in impact investments.

London has been ranked as the fifth most sustainable city in the world on the 2016 Sustainable Cities Index from infrastructure consultancy Arcadis, ahead of international competitors including Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

There is the old saw that children want to be train drivers when they grow up. Quite how this relates to future careers in neither clear nor scientific, however it is an indicator of the ambitions of youth in the most general terms – what they are interested in and see as relevant even as they grow older. A recent survey by Currys PC World has shown that those desires have changed with the times.