2014, the year... the oil price plummeted

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No one saw it coming, but the crash in the global oil price could have huge implications for global decarbonisation efforts

Back in June, BP published its Annual Statistical Review of World Energy, highlighting how global oil prices had remained remarkably stable for almost three years and glossing over the fact that stability...

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