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Business Matters: 17/10/2015 00:06 GMT: Ten Big Oil Companies Declare Action on Climate Change

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17/10/2015 00:06 GMT

17/10/2015 00:06 GMT: Ten Big Oil Companies Declare Action on Climate Change

Ten Big Oil Companies Declare Action on Climate Change

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Ten Big Oil Companies Declare Action on Climate Change

Has the poacher turned gamekeeper? Ten big oil companies declare action on climate change

"The bad guys are part of the solution." That was the message from one of the ten oil and gas industry bosses who gathered in Paris on Friday to call for an effective deal at the next round of climate change negotiations. The ten included BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco and Total - and their collective declaration recognised that the current trend of greenhouse gas emissions is not consistent with the target of limiting global temperature rises to two degrees Centigrade. Is this a case of poacher-turned-gamekeeper? We ask Bjorn Otto Sverdrup, who heads the Sustainability Unit at the Norwegian company Statoil, one of the ten companies at the Paris meeting. We also find out what Ian Duff of Greenpeace thinks.

On planet earth Europe and Russia are currently foes. But in outer space it seems they are friends.The European and Russian space agencies are to send a landing craft to the moon to see whether it's possible to set up a permanent human settlement and use it as a springboard for further exploration of the solar system. The main mission is a mission called Lunar 27 which would land in 2020 in the south polar region of the moon where we'd be looking for water ice and other chemicals which are of tremendous scientific interest but can also become a resource for future exploration missions, eventually supporting human missions back to the surface and onwards into the solar system. For more on that we speak to Ian Crawford, Professor of Planetary Science at Birkbeck University in London, and an advisor to the European Space Agency.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye says South Korea will cooperate closely with the United States on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, while U.S. President Barack Obama says the two countries still have some trade issues that need to be resolved.

All that and more discussed with our guest, Professor Adrian Hearn, Australian Research Council Fellow in Pacific studies at the University of Melbourne.

(Photo: Shell, one of the signatories of the declaration, met protests as it attempted to drill in the Arctic. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images)

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