While claiming to be addressing the environmental and climate impacts of its operations, the Royal Bank of Scotland has in fact been bankrolling intrinsically unsustainable coal developments to the tune of $15.93 billion in the last two years, including some involving notoriously harmful social and environmental practices. By PLATFORM

As national controversy grows over proposals for a set of seven coal-fired power stations, UK banks are fuelling the global coal boom – the ‘roll to coal’. PLATFORM’s recent report, Cashing in on Coal, finds Barclays and HSBC trailing behind the UK leader in fossil fuel investments, RBS-Natwest.

Is carbon capture and storage a safe climate mitigation option? Platform looks at the potential problems.

PLATFORM looks at the trajectory of BP’s policies and patterns of investment, and considers whether the focus on carbon-intensive activity might ultimately come to damage profits, if companies are ever forced to bear the social cost of their own carbon emissions.

The Royal Bank of Scotland’s uncritical support for oil has resulted in it nourishing repression and human rights abuses in Darfur, West Papua and Burma, write PLATFORM.

As speculation intensifies about who will lead BP after boss John Browne’s retirement in two years time (see notes from Gog and Magog), with it comes the question of Browne’s legacy in the company