'This Is Criminal': BP Cuts Climate Pledges While Reporting Record $28 Billion in Profit

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'Just when we need to be rolling back oil and gas production, BP is rolling back its climate commitments.'​

"Just when we need to be rolling back oil and gas production, BP is rolling back its climate commitments."BP, a London-based oil giant that has attempted to style itself as a leader of the renewable energy transition, announced Tuesday that it is slashing its emission-reduction goals and planning more fossil fuel output than previously expected after reporting a record $28 billion in profits for 2022—more than double what it made the year before.

"We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.

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