The New Yorker magazine has an interesting article by Michael Specter on the science and ethics of measuring carbon footprints.
For some reason, many environmentalists have a bias in favour of local consumption, and against the consumption of goods that have traveled a long distance between their place of production and their place [...]

On Monday UN climate chief Yvo de Boer urged EU nations to offer financial help to growing polluters such as China and India over climate change policy, to help secure a global deal next year. 
de Boer claimed that despite ”significant movement in the U.S. position” especially concerning future carbon binding regulations, and the leadership the EU has shown [...]

According to a report in the Guardian, the UK Government is planning to introduce a voluntary code of conduct for companies in the carbon offsets industry. It seems the main objective will be limit the scope for fly-by-night offset operators and projects, taking the money of investors and offsetters without ensuring projects are [...]

Royal Dutch Shell is not the only major oil company calling for more policy certainty on emissions, according to the FT. Both Total and Conoco-Phillips have also made similar calls recently for co-ordinated government action on curbing emissions and promoting trade in emissions permits.
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True to their history as the first company to apply seriously the ideas of scenario planning, oil major Shell has released two scenarios for the future development of energy markets. The two scenarios are:

“In the Scramble scenario, nations rush to secure energy resources for themselves, fearing that energy security is a zero-sum game, [...]