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.

The Iraq war was never about buying Iraq’s oil, says Tom Mills, it was about selling it. The international oil corporations are hanging in there for the biggest prizes.

BP will soon begin extracting tar sands from the Canadian wilderness, a process Greenpeace calls ‘the biggest environmental crime in history.’ Michael Moreci reports.

A controversy is brewing at the University of California in Berkeley where petroleum giant BP, formerly British Petroleum, is planning to give $500 million in funds to the university for research. The deal would fund the development of “sustainable, commercially viable, and environmentally friendly” sources of energy. The newly created Energy Biosciences Institute claims to promote research into biofuels, as well as bacteria that would increase energy production from oil and coal.

PLATFORM’s James Marriot maps the role of BP in the aviation age in a presentation delivered at this year’s Climate Camp.

For over 40 years, Britain has supported and colluded in the brutal Indonesian occupation of West Papua. It’s time for the British government to stop subordinating the human and democratic rights of the West Papuan people to political and economic interests, writes Richard Samuelson.