My oil firm wants results from COP 21. But not the kind you might expect | Björn Otto Sverdrup

Statoil doesn't debate climate science, it acts on it. The Paris talks must find radical solutions - and our optimism can be the fuel for change

Humankind's ability to manage climate change is being tested. The Paris climate talks will conclude two weeks from today. Can we get it right this time?

There is no shortage of pessimists. Mark Carney recently spoke of climate change as the "tragedy of the horizon". Humans have an enormous capacity for failing to do what we know in our hearts we need to. As Ibsen's Peer Gynt said: "To think it, wish it, even want it - but do it! No, that I cannot understand."

Continue reading...