Record sums were invested last year in coal power – the most carbon intensive form of energy on the planet – by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. The World Bank said this week that a total of US$3.4bn ย – or a quarter of all funding for energy projects – was spent in the year to June 2010 helping to build new coal-fired power stations. Over the same period the bank also spent $1bn ย on looking and drilling for oil and gas.
The Reform UK leaderโs planned trip to Washington D.C. has prompted fresh consternation from campaigners.
Policymakers, civil society, investors, business, and the media all must answer key questions fast โ before the regulatory rollback turns into a rout.
The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.
Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.
