"The issue of global economic inequity is as critical as the carbon balance to the stability of the planet’s atmosphere."
Ross Gelbspan, US journalist.

"The alliance between oil and auto companies is one of the most powerful alliances in the world. It can paralyse governments."
Mustafa Tolba, head of the United Nations Environment Programme

We can afford to burn no more than a quarter of existing fossil fuel reserves if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. It is therefore reckless for oil companies to continue the exploration and production of new fossil fuel reserves. In the Atlantic Frontier, eco-campaigners argue that a line must be drawn somewhere and that it should be here. Meanwhile, international agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions are dominated — and hindered - by blinkered corporate and political influences.