BP is of one of the world’s largest energy companies, employing approximately 100,000 people and operating in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our main activities are the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining, marketing, supply and transportation of crude oil and petroleum products; and the manufacture and marketing of petrochemicals. We also have a growing presence in alternative and renewable forms of energy, including gas, hydrogen, solar and wind power.

As a major supplier of energy, we believe we must find and implement solutions to climate change. In 1997, we became the first in our industry to state publicly that precautionary action is justified. The next year, we launched a programme which reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our operations by around 10% between 1998 and 2001. Since then, we’ve taken further action to manage our GHG emissions. Today, we focus not only on operational emissions from our production facilities, chemical plants, refineries and other operational activities, but also product emissions generated by our customers when they use the fuels we sell.