BP Summary

Brief Description of BP:

BP, a global integrated energy company, operates in more than 100 countries on six continents. An organization of more than 104,000 people, BP's major operations consist of oil and gas exploration and production, oil refining and products marketing, petrochemicals, natural gas and natural gas liquids marketing, and solar energy.

BP is a member of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change Business Environmental Leadership Council, a group of major companies that demonstrate leadership by establishing and meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; investing in more efficient products, practices and technologies; and supporting domestic and international action to acheive cost-effective emissions reductions. Read the guiding principles of the Business Environmental Leadership Council.


BP's Greenhouse Gas ReductionTarget:

   In 1998, BP achieved  a 10% reduction from 1990 levels in operational
          greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

• Maintain net emissions at or below 2001 levels over the next decade.

All Business Environmental Leadership Company Targets


CEO: Tony Hayward, Group Chief Executive

Read former CEO Lord Browne's keynote address to the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, London, November 26, 2003


What BP Has To Say About Climate Change:

“In 1997 we accepted that the risks were serious and that precautionary action was justified. We were the first company in our industry to do so, and the first to say that if we were asking other people to take precautionary action we had to show what was possible and to set an example.”
The Lord Browne of Madingley, Former Group Chief Executive BP

Biofuels

• Click here to read about BP’s plans to develop a $500 million research program that will explore how bioscience can be used to increase energy production and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment. BP is partnering with the University of California Berkeley, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on creating the Energy Biosciences Institute, which will perform research aimed at the production of new and cleaner energy, initially focusing on renewable biofuels for road transport.
  
  
• BP has announced (pdf) a new partnership with Dupont to bring a next generation of biofuels to the market to meet growing global demand for renewable transportation fuels. For more information on the initiative click here (pdf).

More on BP

BP's Homepage

BP and Climate Change

Estimate your carbon footprint using BP's carbon calculator

Beyond Kyoto - Former BP CEO, Lord John Browne writes in Foreign Affairs about adressing the issue beyond the Kyoto Protocol

BP's environmental performance and role in society - the latest report

Real solutions to climate change.... Check out the latest on the work going on at Princeton, funded by BP

Principles put to action - BP and partners have begun engineering and design of the world's first industrial scale project to generate "carbon-free" electricity from hydrogen.