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BP’s Bold Climate Plan Doesn’t Add Up to Net Zero

Bernard LooneyPhotographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
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After months of planning, BP’s new CEO Bernard Looney made his big green pitch: Europe’s second-largest oil company will cut its emissions to net zero by 2050, he said earlier this month. Many thought that made BP the world’s first supermajor to take responsibility for all its emissions.