Business

Copenhagen is awash with lobbyists of all creeds and colours, but those representing big business interests have more power than most. Here are their demands...

Climate Radio turns its focus on the actions of big business and asks why we need to stop them stopping climate action

Green claims are everywhere: surely there must be some simple way of measuring exactly what impact a company is having on the climate?

Accusations that NGOs have got far too cosy with big business have been around for years. But where does the blame really lie?

Cincinnati has passed a new law introducing 'environmental justice permits', and will use police powers to force polluting businesses to clean up their acts or get out of town

Bill Drayton is a slight, eager man who straddles worlds. He knows his stuff, having graduated from Harvard, Oxford and Yale, and has a theory of everything.

Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.

Tracy Worcester's film <i>Pig Business</i> exposes the abuses of factory farming and challenges consumers to make a stand. Phil Moore meets a woman on a mission.

Knowing something of the energy consumed by flat screen displays I couldn't help noticing the appearance of an enormous (6 x 3 metres) digital advertising hoarding outside Richmond Fire Station in London.

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint by Friends of the Earth against Shell over the oil company's claims that it uses its waste CO2 to grow flowers.

Environmental groups have welcomed the collapse of the latest round of Doha trade talks, which fell apart on Friday.

The East India Company was the first multinational corporation - until its abuse of power caused a public backlash. Nick Robins examines its legacy to reveal how it set the corporate blueprint for today's firms to operate unchecked

Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?

Where trade is concerned, one size does not fit all. Andrew Simms argues the case for economic self-sufficiency through localisation

If you want to understand why globalisation is so destructive, you need look no further than the invisible food giant Cargill. By Brewster Kneen.