Probably the most important climate meeting in the run up to the main December Copenhagen conference is happening this weekend.
No its not a scientific get-together, but its big business being given unprecedented access to the UN climate negotiations, in cohorts with the hosts of the December meeting, the Danish government.

With less than 200 days to go until the Copenhagen Climate talks, progress is said to be “steadily and slowly” being made.
“There is a constructive atmosphere in the negotiations and I’m very encouraged,” Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change said last week.
But the “slow and steady” political progress [...]

Years and years ago I sat in a meeting entitled “Talking with the Enemy” where a bunch of enviros sat down with leading corporate executives and talked about the topical issues of the day.
One of the participants was the man from Volvo who talked about the company’s prototype vehicle the LCP 2000, that could, in [...]

Of all the oil majors, Shell prides itself on undertaking cutting edge energy forecasting, that not only inform the group’s thinking but also dove-tail into policy making by decision makers across the energy spectrum.
It is one of the few companies to get out its crystal-ball and try and predict what the energy future will look [...]

Tomorrow is the Shell AGM: the show case of the company’s year. Shell will be under fire from investors over corporate pay, but its record in Nigeria should be the real reason the company is in the spotlight.
In the Hague, the main venue for Shell’s main AGM, the oil company’s top brass will be out [...]