| The UN will take up an offer from six of Europe’s largest oil and gas groups to help it fight global warming as countries work on sealing a new international climate change agreement. The unusual proposal from companies including Royal Dutch Shell and Britain’s BP was “very, very welcome”, the UN’s top climate official, Christiana Figueres, told the FT in an interview.
Chief executives of the six companies wrote to Ms Figueres in late May saying they wanted to help countries devise a global carbon-pricing system ahead of the climate deal nearly 200 countries are due to finalise in Paris in December...............................................Full Article: Source
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