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Green finance guide launched for UK credit unions

Apex body All Together Money, which is supporting the handbook, says the sector can support its…

Belgian co-ops build major battery energy storage system in Ruien

A Belgian co-operative consortium is building a 100-MW/250-MWh battery energy storage system complex in Ruien, western…

Pakistan’s co-ops plan to boost livelihoods and rights for waste pickers

Government representatives, labour organisations, technical experts, and international partners discussed the scheme in Lahore

Estonia sees launch of first co-operative renewable energy project

A co-operative solar park has just opened in Obinitsa, Setomaa, marking the genesis of community-based energy…

P&V Group becomes first Belgian insurer to gain climate action plan approval

Its science-based climate action plan positions mutual ownership as the key to long-term, credible climate action'

Community energy experts gather in Latvia to grow the movement

Delegates from more than 30 countries will share insights and explore emerging challenges and opportunities

Farmer-owned Openfield co-op to run trials of biofuel HGVs

The grain co-op is working with Scania and CNG Fuels to trial a low-emissions lorry as…

Co-operatives and the global energy crisis

With climate change getting ever worse and the Iran war threatening energy supplies, Shaz Rahman looks…

Co-op Group expands electric home delivery fleet in £1.5m deal

The retailer says the move will help it reach its net zero goals and expand its…

Solar plant win for Hawaiian energy co-operative

Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative hopes to power the equivalent of over 16,000 homes annually through the…

Boost for community energy as UK government launches £1bn power plan

Energy security secretary Ed Miliband promises 'funding, hands-on support, better business models and policy ambition and…

You are a co-operative – and here’s the scientific reason why

Colin Talbot looks at a work by evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak, Supercooperators