8/5/2014 Decree #504-p[1] of the Russian Government promised in April 2014 “to approve the action plan to ensure reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to a level not exceeding 75 percent of the volume of said emissions in 1990.” Before anyone starts cheering, that 2020 pledge...
This question will be very relevant when the European Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), vigorously supported by France and Germany, is introduced in the 11 European Member States (MSs) that have agreed to it. The UK’s challenge to the tax has just been rejected by the...
The Daily Telegraph of 22nd April published an article on Brent[1] that referred to Consilience’s recent study on the continuing evolution of the “Brent” oil price benchmark and the new blends that might be added to the Brent/Forties/Oseberg/ Ekofisk (BFOE) basket of blends of which...
I'm Alright Jack So the long awaited Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[1] is out at last. It provides a review of the current state of scientific knowledge on global warming and forecast scenarios based on four different Representative Concentration Pathways...
