Greenpeace activists shut down BP gas stations all over London | Greenpeace International

This morning, starting at 5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers shut down 50 BP stations across London.

The teams - each named after an animal threatened by BP's reckless oil exploration - fanned out across the capital in their electric and hybrid cars, going station to station and disabling the pumps.

UK businesses face steep rise in energy bills | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Businesses can expect to face a steep rise in energy bills after the government today published a comprehensive plan to cut greenhouse gases and end Britain's dependence on risky oil and gas imports.

Senate Republican moves to block lame-duck push for carbon cap

"My legislation holds Congress accountable and ensures a fair and open debate about cap and trade instead of quietly slipping it into law," Johanns said. "It's shocking that the majority would consider circumventing the will of the public to pass cap and trade in a lame-duck session with zero debate in the Senate."

Twitter / David Roberts

Show me any "issue" campaign or movement that can persuade the world's richest countries to completely transform their industrial base.

Beware of Scorched-Earth Strategies in Climate Debates

If some conservatives oppose energy or climate policies because of disagreement about the threat of climate change or the costs of those policies, so be it. But in the process of debating risks and costs, there should be no tarnishing of market-based policy instruments. Such a scorched-earth approach will come back to haunt when future environmental policies will not be able to use the power of the marketplace to reduce business costs.

Dispatch from Brazil: climate change

[Sérgio Serra, Brazilian Climate Change Hoax Ambassador] He worries that the public and the media’s interest has waned, though. “If there is less pressure, negotiators will not deliver as much”, he warns.