Sources: Compiled from the quarterly results of each company, publicly available on the investor pages of each company's websites. $135 billion Not the 2010 GDP of Hungary or Kuwait, no it's slightly more than either of those. In fact,...
It was not probably the Valentine’s present the leading climate sceptic organisation, the Heartland Institute, was expecting. But after years of exploiting ClimateGate and leaks from climate scientists, yesterday they were on the receiving end of their very own leak....
On a warm summer evening in July this year, in the prestigious and ornate College Garden of Britain’s historic Westminster Abbey, 250 guests listened to a five-piece band. The music was the start of an inaugural summer party organised by...
When British Prime Minister, David Cameron staked his reputation on leading “the greenest government ever” he knew that many people would hold him to account to make sure his words translated into action. People also knew that he had a...
BP’s AGM tomorrow is set to be a tumultuous affair with the oil giant having to absorb criticism over the legacy of the it's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, its investment in the dirty Canadian tar sands...
About 10,000 activists marched yesterday in Washington on the "Make Big Polluters Pay" march. The march was the culmination of the third "PowerShift" event. Over the weekend activists had heard speeches from the likes of former Vice President Al Gore,...
A year ago at the Copenhagen conference, the talk was all about deals and final agreements that would put the world on the road to a low carbon future. This year, at Cancun, the expectations are so low that just...
This is a cross post from Brad Johnson and Noreen Nelson at the Center for American Progress. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, now under Republican control, is holding a hearing right now to discuss blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
The Washington Post this morning asks a fundamental question that has been played out in countless meetings of oil companies, government officials and environmental NGOs: “Will the oil spill make a drop of difference regarding our attitudes?” Some five months...
Only a couple of weeks ago Iran's OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi was saying the crude oil market is oversupplied and prices of $70 and $80 are more nominal than real. "If we compare the current prices with the real...
