Mayor of London and EU commission BSI to draw up transport specification for public and private sector

In the second in our series on green banking, Victoria Pennington explores how reputational risks are forcing financial services firms to embrace the environmental agenda

UN report backed by latest figures from wind and solar sectors

Small businesses and individuals can produce their own biofuels

World Bank and IFPRI call for action on grain-based ethanol production to avert further food-price crisis

Defra report says scheme would be too unpopular and set-up costs would outweigh financial gains

Department of Energy to fund two major projects to assess suitability of geological formations as carbon stores

"Water is not just an environmental issue – it is a poverty and development issue, an economic issue, and therefore a business issue"

In the first of a three-part series, Victoria Pennington explores how environmental issues are affecting the financial services industry and informing banks' credit and market risk assessments