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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

UNCOVERED: Why has bp pulled the plug on its green ambitions - Caught on Camera

A man in suit and open-necked shirt speaks from a lectern
Former BP CEO Bernard Looney, speaks during an event in London in 2020, where the firm vowed to ‘reimagine’ itself as a net zero energy company by 2050. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

BP has angered climate groups by abandoning its green ambitions to instead invest about $10bn a year in a string of new oil and gas projects to help reverse its flagging fortunes.

The strategy, put forward by its chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, pulls the plug on BP’s 2020 plan to become a net zero energy company, which he claims was “misplaced” and went “too far, too fast”.

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