BP focuses on being part of the solution
The major has embarked on a significant PR drive around its commitment to the energy transition
BP is ramping up efforts to highlight how it is investing to make a “rapid shift” towards meeting climate change goals, focusing on how it will be “part of the solution” to the challenge of delivering global low carbon economy. The firm has of late seen climate change protesters causing delays on an oil rig heading out to one of its North Sea fields and high-profile artists challenging BP’s wide-ranging UK arts sponsorship programme. At stake more widely, though, is increasing concern over traditional oil and gas companies’ ‘license to operate’, as urgency over how quickly the world must decarbonise focuses the minds of consumers, investors and policy makers around the globe. Speaking at a
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