Business Green: BP yesterday agreed to hand over $20bn (£13.5bn) in compensation for those affected by the Gulf oil spill and officially cancelled its dividend payments for the first three quarters of this year, following a meeting between senior executives and president Obama at the White House. The company said it will pay $5bn per year into an escrow fund, starting this year, which will be managed by Kenneth Feinberg, the Washington lawyer who administered the compensation fund for the 9/11 World …