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I posted a list of world’s biggest companies ranked by Forbes.  In that post I highlighted on the domination of energy companies in the top 15. Forbes ranked 2000 companies accros countries, varies from banking and finance industry, retail to telecommunication.

The list of  2009 world’s biggest companies is fair enough to describe state of the art of current world’s business. Most of them are multinational companies and managing high value of natural resources economy. If such business fueling world’s economy, so with the fossil energy.

A list of top largest companies at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) comfirms domination:

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Forbes releases the world’s biggest companies list. It reveals 2000 companies that, says Forbers,  ‘will emerge on the other side of the trough far stronger when world economies snap back next year’. Current global crisis is not a hard way for them to keep grow, fund, and entering the new market. Even crisis is the best time to buy rivals.

The world’s biggest  companies are placed in 62 countries, mostly in US.  Forbes put various sectors from banking to telecommunication industry.  The list also put several fossil energy companies in top 15.

Although international organizations propose a concept of green economy, in fact,  fossil energy business has more  assets and resources. Ok, this situation could be opportunity too. They has more capital to alter the pattern of world energy economy, so we have a chance for green economy.

Here top 15 of world’s biggest companies, in 2009:

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More countries are fighting the current economic recession as we can see in this week’s London Summit of Group of 20 meeting. Leaders of the world’s 20 largest economic powers discuss the global recession and decide new measures establishing the world on a more stable economic footing. In facts, many countries are facing the facts that their economic growth is decreasing, less exports and more jobs are loss. Many governments then made a plan of new economic stimulus for various sectors, including natural resources business such forestry. The new economic stimulus is expected to create more jobs.

I noted a press release of FAO referring recent report on Green Jobs by ILO. According to the study, unemployment worldwide could increase from 179 million in 2007 to 198 million in 2009 under the best case scenario.  With the worst case scenario, it reach higher as 230 million.

Another estimation of  job losses in US says it spread from construction, retail, professional services until manufacturing. The number were varies from 12,000 to 51,000 for each sector.

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