Earlier this month, the World Bank announced the launch of US$ 550 million dollars of Green Bonds. Are Green Bonds a way forward for climate finance, or will the World Bank’s Green […]

For the first time, Texas is connecting most of its wind farms to its largest cities. That’s bringing cheap electricity into the service area of Energy Future Holdings Corp., bad news to […]

In Libya strikes by oilfield workers have reduced daily production of crude oil dramatically from 1.6 million barrels a day to an estimated 250,000 barrels a day. In Iraq there have been […]

It turns out that in the end I wrote some 929 posts on The Oil Drum, over the course of its eight-year life, 92 of them in the past two years. The […]

As with everything else, it’s all about economic feasibility. This is the story of kerogen (oil shale), and could be a huge one, or it could just stay in the ground for […]

Back in March 2005 I posted my first offering to the new site that Kyle and I had agreed to call “The Oil Drum.” Now, some eight years later, this will be […]

There are huge gaps between how much carbon a country extracts, produces and consumes. Recognising this should be key when designing climate policy. via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/mind-carbon-gap-three-ways-count-emissions-93264?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mind-carbon-gap-three-ways-count-emissions-93264

We live in a finite world. Clearly, a finite world has assorted limits of various kinds. Yet economists and many other researchers use predictive models that assume that these limits are unimportant, […]

The recent chaos in Syria, Egypt and Libya has pushed up oil prices by as much as $16 a barrel above the three-year average of 2010-2012, making it far more expensive to […]

While the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that became all the rage some time ago initially had worthwhile aims, it is now more commonly used by corporations to out-worthy their competitors. […]