A lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through premature deaths and hygiene-related diseases, a study found.
A major new Calvert study identifies which public companies have made the most strides in building greener and cleaner homes.
Hedge funds increased short selling in U.S. renewable energy stocks to the highest level in a year, boosting bets against First Solar Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc.
Their mission: making big endowments and big business socially responsible.
Responsible investors focus on this dirty industry's brighter spots and alternatives.
The main man-made greenhouse gases blamed for global warming increased to record post-industrial concentrations last year, the United Nations said
Companies with environmental problems pay a premium to finance debt and their bonds are assigned lower credit ratings, says a prize-winning study.
More than 2 billion people don't have access to clean water, and millions are dying from drinking polluted water. Even in the U.S...
Government policies are needed to slow global warming and close the widening climate investment gap.
Levi Strauss, The Gap and Nordstrom were among the companies recognized for performing the best on a survey of global supply chain compliance programs of apparel brands and retailers.
President Barack Obama must fight to defend rules cutting global-warming emissions that some lawmakers have vowed to block, said the head of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
NASDAQ OMX announced today that it launched another 10 Green Economy indexes, bringing its total number of green indexes to 77.
Prudential Financial Inc. expects to save $3 million in energy costs as a result of installing solar panels on three office buildings.
The Environmental Protection Agency's effort to give states a leading role in curbing pollution tied to global warming failed to satisfy the agency's critics in business and the U.S. Congress.
SRI assets grew more during the financial crisis and are continuing to grow at a faster pace than professionally managed assets as a whole, according to a new trends report from the Social...
The world's largest stock exchange company has made a big commitment to green investing with the introduction of 66 new indexes that track the clean energy and environmental sectors, as well as...
President Barack Obama distanced himself from the "cap-and-trade" program he once backed, saying he wants to work with Republicans to find other ways to curb carbon emissions.
California voters rejected a ballot measure backed by oil refiners that would have suspended the state's global-warming law.
Investors are pressing corporations to help stop forced labor, child labor and sexual exploitation.