Decades after BP became aware about the serious consequences of climate change, and as the world faces a climate emergency, the company’s outgoing boss, Bob Dudley, seems more content about saving BP, than the planet itself.
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Week Two: UN Climate Talks Need to ‘Kick Polluters Out’ Now
It is time to kick the polluters out of the UN climate negotiations. They should have been kicked out decades ago. But it needs to happen now. Once and for all.
Climate Denying Trump Administration Rebrands Fossil Fuels as “Freedom Gas”
The Trump Administration is redoubling its assault on the climate. Part of that is trying to redefine fossil fuels as “molecules of U.S. freedom” and “freedom gas.”
Elite British Cycling Team Sells Out to Shale Boss
One of Britain’s elite cycling teams has just announced that its new sponsor will be the UK’s richest man, petrochemical and fracking boss, Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
UN head warns it is not only “immoral but suicidal” if we don’t act now on climate
Just as the people of the Niger Delta have been demanding justice from Shell for decades, many of us have been demanding climate justice for decades too. But the hour glass has nearly run dry. The time to act is now. We cannot allow another COP to pass with just empty promises.
As the World Warms, King Coal Rules the UN Climate Talks
It is that time of year again, when the annual international UN climate negotiations take place. This year, the Conference of the Parties – or COP for short – is happening in Katowice, in Poland. It starts next week.
How UK Gov. Is Spinning Pro-Shale Science in the Media
As the UK’s fledgling shale industry lurches from crisis after crisis concerning public acceptability and causing repeated small earthquakes, the UK Government last month appointed what it termed an independent “Shale Gas Commissioner” whose job it is to listen to the concerns of local residents
BP’s Blatant Climate Hypocrisy on Show As it “Buys” Vote to Defeat Carbon Tax
As millions of people digest the saturated press coverage of the mid-terms, and wonder what the next two-years of a chaotic and destructive Trump Presidency will mean with the Republican loss of the House, it is easy to miss other issues that were also voted on this week.
BP and Big Oil Drive Society Over the “Climate Cliff”
What is a “world class” reserve of oil to BP, is “world destroying” to everyone else.
An Early April’s Fool? Statoil Rebrands itself As Equinor
The Norwegian company, Statoil, is proposing to change its name to “Equinor”. The rebranding exercise – or what some may call greenwashing exercise – will cost as much as 250 million kroner or $32 million.