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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Alex Daniel

BP slashes green energy spending and turns back towards fossil fuels

BP is making a drastic pullback from renewables in favour of more oil and gas, claiming that it went “too far, too fast” on green energy.

Chief executive Murray Auchincloss said that while BP is still aiming to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2050, it will slash its annual renewables spending by nearly three-quarters.

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