World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent between 2005 and 2030, driven by robust economic growth and expanding populations in the world’s developing countries, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2008 (IEO2008) released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Election campaigns can be self-destructive – a fact which has been sufficiently proven in Germany by the internal party duels between Lafontaine and Schröder, Strauß and Kohl or Möllemann and Westerwelle. But what we are presently experiencing in the US between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama exceeds everything we could have imagined so far. In the frenzy of her election campaign Hillary Clinton clearly overstepped the limit.

World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, according to Royal Dutch Shell.  By Carl Mortished, World Business Editor

100 Dollar is the cost of a barrel of oil (159 Litres) at the moment – soon it could be 200 – the wails were far to be heard. 40 year ago it was only four Dollar per Barrel and a year ago only 67 Dollar.

Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party’s new rock star, is that rare politician who can actually write — and write movingly and genuinely about himself.

Even as the Indian government gropes in the dark for a coherent policy on energy and the environment, it is rooting hard for a highly unpopular nuclear power project here, close to the peninsula's southern tip.

On the occasion of the presentation of its 2006/2007 Annual Report, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) publishes alarming figures on military spending worldwide. With US $1,030 billion spent in 2005, the 1000 billion Dollar limit has well been broken.

Speech given by Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, at the British Embassy, Berlin, 24 October 2006.

Al Gore published a new book: “An inconvenient truth – The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.”

Greenpeace celebrates that the president of Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has confirmed in the Debate of State of the Nation that the Government maintains his commitment, gathered in the electoral program of the PSOE and in the speech of investiture, to leave the nuclear energy in Spain and its announcement to make specific it so before this legislature finalizes, as  environmental NGOs called for.