Three researchers analyzed management reports for BP, Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil published from 2009 to 2020, as well as their leaders’ statements and expenditures. Result: There is a ‘mismatch’ (Mismatch) between clean energy rhetoric and reality.
It is clear that these four companies are not taking the concrete actions that will be necessary to deliver on their promises to switch to clean energies. In 2020, BP and Shell pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050 (i.e. reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to be able to offset them through activities such as planting trees).
they use Certainly often Before keywords like “climate change”, and in English, Low carbon. For example, from 2009 to 2020, BP reports, “climate change” increased from 22 to 326 times. But overall, these companies remain, financially, as committed as they were before to fossil fuels.
The three Japanese researchers wrote: “The volume of investments and actions do not match the discourse.” studying It was published on February 16 in the magazine PLUS ONE. a separate study The International Energy Agency estimated that in 2020, investments in green energy by major oil and gas companies amounted to 1% of their total expenditures.
Perhaps the most prominent example is investment in new projects to extract fossil fuels. BP and Shell have promised to cut back on these investments. In fact, they have increased the area of drilling surfaces in recent years. At most, the two European companies – BP and Shell – Do you know more climatology That the two American companies.
