Campaigners led by Global Witness assessed the participant list published by the UN at the start of this meeting. They found that 503 people with links to fossil fuel interests had been accredited for the climate summit. These delegates are said to lobby for oil and gas industries, and campaigners say they should be banned. “The
A global energy company, Shell, says it has established a new business line in Nigeria to expand natural gas marketing and sales to meet the rapidly growing energy needs of wholesale customers and provide more and cleaner energy solutions in the country. It said the new business line, Shell Energy Nigeria, would build on the
OPEC is reviving supplies halted during the pandemic, but added only 140,000 barrels a day last month because of the difficulties faced by both countries, according to a Bloomberg survey based on ship tracking data. The under-performance may increase the impatience expressed by the United States President, Joe Biden and other world leaders, who have
Costs at the pump have risen 40 per cent since Biden came to power, fuelling inflation anxiety The Biden administration’s senior energy official on Sunday blamed the Opec oil “cartel” for soaring petrol prices in the US, putting more pressure on the group to increase crude output ahead of a meeting later this week. “Gas
The 2021 Conference of the Parties also called the COP 26 is expected to mobilise developed countries to raise $100 billion annually to tackle climate change globally. Catriona Laing, British High Commissioner, made this known on Thursday during her opening remarks at the COP26 press conference in Abuja. She was represented at the conference by
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