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 longer they can delay action on climate the better.
But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is striking back. [...]

At the end of the day energy comes down to economics.
Drilling oil out of the deserts of the Middle East is inherently more profitable than boiling them out of Canadian boreal forest.
Any deal at Copenhagen will hinge on how much the rich are prepared to pay the poor.
There will be no clean coal, unless the [...]

Headline on the BBC’s flagship radio show, the Today programme at 8.00 AM this morning: 20-odd Greenpeace protestors have spent the night on the House of Commons to highlight the government’s lack of action on climate change.
Next headline: a report by the Government’s own advisors on climate change says the government must do more to [...]

Environmental activists across the globe are celebrating this morning after the energy giant E.On shelved its controversial plans for a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent in the UK.
Blaming the recession and not the sustained three-year campaign to stop it, E.ON, said the fall for electricity had caused it to re-think.

Twelve years ago the oil giant Shell announced it had established a fifth core business – called Shell International Renewables or SIR- which was designed to exploit the growing renewable market.
Over a decade later, the oil company has beat a humiliating retreat out of the main renewable market. In March this year Shell came clean [...]