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 [...]

A radical shake-up of Britain’s planning laws is going to be announced today which will make it easier for the government to fast-track or steam-roll large energy projects such as nuclear, gas or  power stations or even wind turbines.
In all the government will publish six “National Policy Statements” on energy this afternoon, including - most [...]

It’s turning into Astroturf August. Hot on the heels of the revelations about the fake oil industry PR campaign, comes the fake coal PR campaign.
We knew that the fossil fuel industry would not give up without a fight, but we did not realise that had turned into such fossil fools, by have all their devious [...]

After twelve years in power the British Labour government yesterday outlined what it has deemed a “low carbon transition plan”.
Coopting language from the growing Transition Town movement is a crafty tactic by the British government that is promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 34% by 2020 with 80% cut by 2050.
Let’s get the positives [...]