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Investors urge oil firms: abandon Assad regime Sep 05, 2011 Institutional investors have urged oil companies operating in Syria to withdraw or condemn the brutal repression by the country’s Bashar al-Assad dictatorship. Members of Conflict Risk Network (CRN) – Calvert, Boston Common and Domini among them – have told 11 companies that their payments to the Syrian government for access to oil link them to its human rights abuses, including the killing of thousands of protestors, and must leave the country or condemn the regime. The companies approached include Shell, Total, Petrofac and...

Nine aspirations for the coming new year EP asked some of its subscribers for their views. This is what they said. Martin Blake, head of sustainability, Royal Mail Group Carbon trading and offsetting is a dog’s dinner at the moment, and it would be good to get some clarity on that in the next year. People just don’t trust what they’re getting, what the coverage is, whether it’s sustainable, or how much money goes to carbon projects. There’s no conformity, and all the different strands need to come together. So it would be nice if in 2008 there was some convergence, with schemes gra...