CLIMATE CHANGE CHIEF SAYS ENERGY MAJORS MUST NOT LET RECESSION DENT EMISSION REDUCTION PLANS
November 1st, 2008
BY ERIC LYMAN
SPEAKING to the Petroleum Review, the United Nations' top climate change official has urged oil and gas companies to stay focused on sustainability despite the world economic turmoil, and predicted that the coming years will reward efficiency more than ever.
Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the smartest energy companies will be transformed by their efficiencies.
"Many of these companies used to be oil companies; now they see themselves as energy companies," de Boer said, speaking at his ...
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