Five years on from BP's ambitious pledge, the climate has changed in every sense

Five years ago, BP's chief executive did something very unusual for the boss of an oil and gas company - he pledged to produce less oil and gas. Standing in front of the slogan "reimagine", scrawled freehand and lowercase in a shade of green, Bernard Looney, the lean and charismatic then-leader of the British-based oil giant, announced that BP "would become a very different kind of energy company". His pitch was striking and very much of the moment. Image: Bernard Looney. Pic: Reuters A multinational that ...