[caption id="attachment_27383" align="alignright" width="300"] Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati, and Francois Martel, Secretary General of the Pacific Island Development Forum, sign the Lofoten Declaration at COP23.[/caption] Today, Pacific Island leaders at the UN climate negotiations delivered a clear, powerful...
Although Canada’s controversial tar sands industry celebrated a small increase in production last year, this year’s forecast is looking gloomy, as investors continue to take flight over the climate risks and the relatively low oil price means that other oil...
Yesterday Australian climate activists blockaded the world's largest coal port and shut it down for several hours, leading to the arrest of 66 people. The protest managed to stop millions of tonnes of coal being exported for a whole day...
The political and economic reverberations of last week’s Canadian court of appeal judgement against the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline are continuing.
A new investigation by Oil Change International shows that the World Bank’s infrastructure program in Indonesia reads like a coal industry wish list stipulating policies and government subsidies that promote the fast-tracked development of over 40 coal projects in the...
There is a growing backlash on both sides of the Atlantic against biofuels
All conflicts are about power and who will ultimately exert control over a people and resources. That is why there is a persistent niggle about western intervention in conflicts, and whether there is a humanitarian aim, or one simply about...
Change may only happen in small steps, but slowly and surely the geo-politics of oil are changing. The dynamics of Middle Eastern oil are in transition. Anyone who argued that the war in the Gulf was a war about oil...
To anyone in North America, the Icelandic volcano fiasco must seem something of a distant story, unless you are trying to fly to Europe right now, when it will be a living hell. It is a hell being experienced by...
When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation. So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front...
