BP's plans to explore for oil in the deep seas of the Great Australian Bight came under fire today at the company's Annual General Meeting in London, writes Graham Readfearn. The drilling would risk the ocean's rich marine wildlife - while blowing a massive hole in Australia's COP21 emissions targets.
In 2012 'skeptical environmentalist' Bjorn Lomborg told The Ecologist that his Copenhagen Consensus Center had poor funding prospects. But now its US arm is flooded with cash - over $4 million since 2008. And as Graham Readfearn reports, only a fraction of it can be traced ...