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 [...]

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, [...]

As mentioned earlier, British environmental campaigner and journalist, George Monbiot, has argued that producing sustainable biofuels without adding to net carbon emissions is not possible. He argues for a reduction in the world’s consumption of oil for transport, claiming that:
“All these convoluted solutions are designed to avoid a simpler one: reducing the [...]

Australia has just voted by a landslide to change its Government, and the new Prime Minster, Kevin Rudd, has promised his first official action will be to sign the nation up to the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. Expect to see Australia once again providing global leadership on environmental issues, now that the morally-deplorable, [...]