FACT SHEET The Climate Accountability Scorecard: BP

The Union of Concerned Scientists evaluated BP on 30 metrics, finding that while the company acknowledges climate science and supports a carbon price, it fails to distance itself from trade associations that spread disinformation and lacks a company-wide emissions reduction plan.

• BP consistently acknowledges the scientific evidence of climate change and the necessity for deep emissions reductions from fossil fuels across its public platforms.
• The company maintains affiliations with trade associations that spread climate disinformation, specifically the American Petroleum Institute (API), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), and has not taken steps to distance itself from their claims.
• BP lacks a comprehensive, company-wide strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• BP supports a government carbon policy framework and uses an internal cost assumption of $40 per tonne of CO2-equivalent for larger projects in industrialized countries.
• While BP provides detailed analysis of regulatory risks and financial impacts of laws, it fails to identify climate change as a contributor to its physical risks, such as adverse weather.
• BP has taken some positive steps regarding governance and transparency, including leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in 2015 and recommending support for a 2015 shareholder resolution to improve climate risk reporting.

APA

Union of Concerned Scientists (2016). FACT SHEET The Climate Accountability Scorecard: BP. https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/attach/2017/05/BP_scorecard_Revised.pdf

Chicago

Union of Concerned Scientists. FACT SHEET The Climate Accountability Scorecard: BP. 2016. https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/attach/2017/05/BP_scorecard_Revised.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{unionofconcernedscientists2016fact, author = {{Union of Concerned Scientists}}, title = {{FACT SHEET The Climate Accountability Scorecard: BP}}, institution = {Union of Concerned Scientists}, year = {2016}, month = oct, url = {https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/attach/2017/05/BP_scorecard_Revised.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }