Ill health costs the British economy over £100bn a year - the same as the cost of running the NHS for a year, a report is set to say.

Company bosses should have their bonuses cut if their firms do not act responsibly to help communities tackle teenage binge-drinking and recycling under Conservative plans to be announced today.

Centrica will push ahead with one of the UK's most ambitious offshore wind generation building programmes after it secured a long-term contract on the MV Resolution, the world's largest turbine-installing barge.

Britain's climate change emissions may be 12% higher than officially stated, according to a National Audit Office investigation which has strongly criticised the government for using two different carbon accounting systems. There is "insufficient consistency and coordination" in the government's approach, the NAO said.

Many companies now espouse carbon reduction messages but how many are driving their programmes from the very top?
Some high-profile chief executives and chairmen, such as Sir Stuart Rose at Marks & Spencer and James Murdoch at BSkyB, have become well known for embedding action on climate change into their companies. However, the failure of other organisations to respond fully can often be laid at the door of a lack of top-level involvement.

Smaller Irish companies aren’t setting up anything like as many corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes as they should, according to the organiser of a new executive programme in CSR.

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