Oh yeah? Don't believe a word of it. You may have thought the long debate over whether humans are warming the Earth was finally over, especially given the recent warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But today Channel...
Now the Independent newspaper has launched into biofuels with a front page lead in today’s paper. The biofuel bonanza is set to reach a landmark this week the US President, George Bush, arrives in Brazil to kick-start the creation of...
UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair will complete a U-turn over green energy next week when he supports an ambitious 20 per cent mandatory target for renewables at an EU Summit. Blair is said to have overruled Alistair Darling, the Trade...
Despite growing unrest and violence in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, and daily kidnappings Nigeria’s Oil Minister Edmund Daukoru has said that “there is reason to believe the worst is over” for Africa's Number one producer. "It is a very, very...
Good article in the New York Daily News about Iraq’s new oil law. “Throughout nearly four years of the daily mayhem and carnage in Iraq, President Bush and his aides in the White House have scoffed at even the slightest...
Leading world politicians and industrialists have reached a new, non-binding agreement at a meeting in the United States on tackling climate change. The two-day meeting brought together legislators from countries including the Group of Eight rich nations plus Brazil, China,...
We have blogged this story before, but it has fresh legs. UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair will hold a mini-summit with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin tomorrow amid signs that he really wants to crown his 10-year premiership...
Far from wrecking the economic growth, climate change will boost the global economy, according to Barclays Capital, a leading investment bank. It believes the need to increase energy capacity by 50 per cent by 2035, while simultaneously reducing dependence on...
Tony Blair’s Government may be forced by opposition MPs to adopt tougher targets to reduce carbon emissions in order to step up its fight against climate change. A Tory policy review group favours an 80 per cent reduction which is...
Happy New Year 2. The Seattle Times reports gloomily: “Food shortages, cars abandoned, another depression. It's the stuff of nightmares — and the type of future an eclectic group of engineers, computer experts and others in Seattle believe could await...
