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The Latest Breaking News from British Petroleum

BP cuts boss’s pay by 30% after company misses profit targets

Murray Auchincloss paid £5.4m in 2024 as oil company ditched green investment strategy

The Guardian - UK

BP chief takes more than £2.3m pay cut after slump in profit

Murray Auchincloss’s pay fell by one-third last year, ahead of BP making a drastic pullback from its green energy targets.

Evening Standard

Ex-BP boss Bernard Looney takes chairman job at climate AI firm

His appointment comes after BP drastically reduced its spending on renewables last week, rolling back plans made during Mr Looney’s tenure.

Evening Standard

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BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works

The failure to deal with the climate emergency is not a problem of greedy individual companies, but a system rigged against positive change, says Brett Christophers, a professor of economic geography

The Guardian - UK

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Museums defend BP sponsorship despite backlash against cuts to climate change funding

The British Museum’s relationship with BP was decried as ‘untenable’ and ‘indefensible’

The Independent UK

3 Stocks With Unusual Call Option Volume – What It Signals

Recently, new call option buying activity has floated into three stocks, signaling to investors that traders are highly convinced of higher prices ahead.

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Museums defend BP sponsorship after firm abandons climate targets

British Museum and Science Museum said BP’s decision to grow fossil fuel investment would not alter relationship

The Guardian - UK

Dirtier BP is still miles away from resetting its share price

Fossil fuel giant’s strategic U-turn may be far-reaching but even after ditching climate goals the shares fell

The Guardian - UK

Why has BP pulled the plug on its green ambitions?

Oil firm abandons plan to become net zero energy company as its CEO claims strategy went ‘too far, too fast’

The Guardian - UK

Global stocks rise as investors await Nvidia earnings after DeepSeek knock

The UK’s FTSE 100 moved 62.79 points higher, or 0.72%, to close at 8,731.46.

Evening Standard

BP slashes green energy spending and turns back towards fossil fuels

The move follows pressure from some investors to boost profits at the firm, but has also angered environmental groups.

Evening Standard

How BP went from eco poster child to possible takeover target

“In an industry where timing is everything, BP made the right bet at the wrong time,” says one professor who has studied its strategy.

Fortune

Transition to renewables taking longer than thought, senior BP figure tells MPs

Louise Kingham said ‘clarity’ from the UK Government is needed to unlock investment in the North Sea as she reaffirmed BP’s commitment to net zero.

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BP to slash spending on net zero ventures as it focuses on oil and gas again

British energy company BP has confirmed it is to slash spending on green ventures and up its oil and gas production

Evening Standard

BP slashes net-zero spending by nearly £4bn in renewed oil and gas focus

The fossil fuels giant said it would increase oil and gas investment by about 20% to £7.9 billion a year as part of a major strategy update.

The Guardian - UK

BP blames ‘misplaced’ faith in green transition for its renewed focus on fossil fuels

CEO Murray Auchincloss says ‘fundamental reset’ will mean cut of more than £4bn to low-carbon investment plan

Evening Standard

BP takes the axe to investment in green energy in "shocking" strategy U-turn

Rethink comes five years after BP set ambitious targets to cut production of oil and gas by 40% by 2030

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BP expected to roll back green energy pledges to boost profit

The oil giant was criticised by environmental groups amid forecasts that it will roll back pledges made five years ago in a bid to boost profit.

The Independent UK

BP signs $25bn deal to redevelop Iraq’s oil and gasfields as it slashes investments in renewable energy

BP previously committed to cut oil and gas production by 40 per cent by 2030

The National (Scotland)

BP to slash renewable energy generation to pivot to fossil fuels

OIL and gas company BP is expected to ditch a target to ramp up renewable energy generation by 2030 in a bid to pivot back towards fossil fuels and…

The Guardian - UK

BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels

Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week

Evening Standard

FTSE 100 falls after plunging consumer confidence report

Polling by the British Retail Consortium found expectations for the economy worsened for the fifth consecutive month in February.

Evening Standard

BP investors demand vote on any plans to scrap climate goals

The oil giant is expected to go back on a promise to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at a strategy meeting next week.

Evening Standard

Hedge fund’s BP stake worth £3.8bn as firm expected to ditch green promises

Activist investor Elliott Management is expected to push for BP to pivot back towards traditional oil and gas.

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