Looney’s successor at BP must “significantly build” on climate ambitions, say Greenpeace

Responding to news that BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney has resigned, Charlie Kronick, Senior Climate Advisor at Greenpeace UK, said: “The departure of any chief executive can’t be an excuse for oil and gas giants to avoid taking the action needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Whoever takes the reins at BP must significantly build on Looney’s green ambitions, not walk them back.  Too often, corporate climate pledges evaporate with a CEOs departure; their choice of a new CEO will be a litmus test of the BP Board’s climate credentials.

“If BP and the rest of the industry are serious about being part of the solution, rather than making the climate crisis even worse, they need to fundamentally change their core business. That means cutting oil and gas production and slashing emissions across all their operations, as well as redirecting significant spending towards the cheap, clean renewables we need to power us through the rest of the century.”