The Angry Mermaid Strikes Back
All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December. This will please the corporate lobbyists no end. The...
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Republican Outrage at EPA Move to Regulate CO2
Talk about sending mixed messages to the Copenhagen talks. Yesterday, Steve blogged about how one Obama government agency - the Import -Export Bank had approved $3 billion for an Exxon gas project. The move was a clear sop to the...
Climate Change “could be left out” of Obama’s Speech
Predicting political speeches is always fraught with difficulty, but there have been enough leaks to suggest that Barack Obama’s State of Union address will scale back his ambitious plans on both health-care as well as climate change. Instead the President...
Battle Lines Drawn Over Senate Climate Bill
So the Senate Climate Bill has finally been released. After months of meetings and waiting, two Democratic Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have released their 800 page tome - the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. But note...
Outrage as China Protects its Renewables Industry
It is meant to be a visit to talk about China’s commitment to tackling climate change, but on the sidelines is the thorny issue of China’s protectionist tactics to become the world leader in renewable energy. In many ways China...
Lockerbie: Freedom for Oil?
Is the special relationship between the US and UK going to be stretched to the limit over Lockerbie? It is expected that this afternoon the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi will be freed from prison on compassionate grounds as he has...
Obama “May Delay” Copenhagen Climate Deal
There is growing evidence that President Obama will be forced to delay signing up to any new agreement on climate change in Copenhagen due to the scale of opposition in the US Congress. Senior figures in Obama’s administration have warned...
Portugal Leads the “Green” Car Revolution ….
As the auto industry crisis continues in Washington after the impasse in Congress late last week, you could argue that the American car industry is paying a heavy price for ignoring the warning signs of a coming economic crunch and...
There’s nowt like high oil prices
While all the indications are that we are heading for an oil crunch soon, in the short term the high oil prices have finally had an effect on demand. There is an old saying in the world’s financial institutions that...
The Trillion Dollar Wake Up Call
Tackling climate change can have a significant impact on your company’s value to the total of $7 trillion, according to a new report by the London-based Carbon Trust. The report, based on analysis by McKinsey & Co, found that companies’...