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Seven in 10 U.S. citizens believe climate change is real and happening now. Yet most have never even contacted a government official about the issue, let alone volunteered with an environmental organisation or taken other action.

These findings are part of an exploration of Climate Change in the American Mind issued by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

More than 11 percent of investments under U.S. professional management were selected for companies’ financial performance and their social and environmental responsibility in 2012.

With rampant unemployment, low jobs growth and an ugly global economy, many are wondering if we are in the midst of a new stock market bubble. Below are the...

The Global Risks Report 2013 analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections, based on a survey of over 1000 experts from industry, government and academia.

This year’s findings show that the world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges. The report highlights wealth gaps (severe income disparity) followed by unsustainable government debt (chronic fiscal imbalances) as the top two most prevalent global risks. Following a year scarred by extreme weather, from Hurricane Sandy to flooding in China, respondents rated rising greenhouse gas emissions as the third most likely global risk overall. The findings of the survey fed into an analysis of three major risk cases: Testing Economic and Environmental Resilience, Digital Wildfires in a Hyperconnected World and The Dangers of Hubris on Human Health. In a special report on national resilience, the groundwork is laid for a new country resilience rating, which would allow leaders to benchmark their progress. The report also highlights “X Factors” – emerging concerns which warrant more research, including the rogue deployment of geoengineering and brain-altering technologies.

MARKETS can misprice risk, as investors in subprime mortgages discovered in 2008. Several recent reports suggest that markets are now overlooking the risk of "unburnable carbon". The share prices of oil, gas and coal companies depend in part on their reserves. The more fossil fuels a firm has underground, the more valuable its shares. But what if some of those reserves can never be dug up and burned?

New initiatives rapidly could change the way capital markets -- and, as a result, corporate executives -- value environmental, social and governance issues.

Wal-Mart, the Gap, and others discuss how to improve working conditions in Bangladesh following two disasters

Is socially responsible or so-called white hat investing better for your conscience than your wallet?

The Lonsec/Money Management Fund Manager of the Year Award for responsible investment has gone to Perpetual’s Wholesale Ethical SRI Fund.

Nearly half of the country's fracking wells are located in water-stressed regions, so we might be seeing some ugly fights over water in the West.

Happy shoppers: men and women heading to the high street and returning laden with bags of newly bought goodies. That is the image that both economic policy makers and retailers would love to see. A return to the good times.

Fast fashion

Few sectors are more emblematic of today's consumer-driven growth model than the fashion industry. With each new season comes a brand new range of must haves. This "out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new" seesaw leaves us more hip and retailers more profitable, but it's costing the planet dear. Take jeans. The cotton that goes into a single pair of Levi's® 501®s, for example, requires almost 1,500 litres of water to grow. Add in millions of T-shirts, jumpers, socks, pairs of underwear … you do the maths.

Commodities, energy and materials are the most unappreciated areas of the market these days. Here's why it may make sense to invest in these areas now.

Almost all of the top 500 publicly traded U.S. companies annually disclose information on their sustainability performance, but very few combine sustainability and financial performance data, according to a report released April 29 by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCI) and the Sustainable Investments Institute (SI2).

CircleUp, a fundraising platform for consumer product companies, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures and joined by Google Ventures, Maveron and Clayton Christensen’s Rose Park Advisors.

Do investors care about a company's environmental risk? Three high-profile investors debated it at Fortune's Brainstorm Green conference.

We’ve all heard that following weak returns, venture capital cleantech investing has retrenched. So what’s next? A style of investing that is a whole lot more rational, return-driven, shorter timelines and capital lite.

Lincoln Financial (NYSE: LNC) Field has been home to some pretty incredible football action in the first decade since its opening. Take, 4th and 26, for instance.
But as of this...