Oh the irony, the poor starve, yet the rich squabble over subsidies. European biodiesel producers have triggered a fresh transatlantic trade war by urging the EU to impose punitive duties on cheap imports from the US.
They claim that low-priced imports of biofuels are putting many European producers out of business. Their American rivals immediately hit […]

Developing countries, including China and India, are unwilling to sign up to a new global climate change pact to replace Kyoto because the rich world has failed to set a clear example on cutting CO2.
That’s the blunt message from Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He argues that too […]

Top climate negotiators from more than 160 nations launched a new round of talks in Bangkok today aimed at setting out what is meant to be the most ambitious treaty yet for battling global warming.
Opening the five-day meeting with a video message, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to work together to find a […]

Last week, on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War, hundreds of people stood with Oil Change International in the streets in front of the American Petroleum Institute demanding a Separation of Oil & State. They know, just as we do, that oil was the central motivation of the war in Iraq, that oil […]

One can only be highly skeptical about the news that Tony Blair is to lead a new international team to try to tackle the intractable problem of a deal on climate change which has the backing of both China and America.
The former British prime minister believes he can help prepare a blueprint for an agreement […]