Taking Climate Change Seriously: British Petroleum's Business Strategy

Corporate Environmental Strategy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 22-31

  Lowe, Ernest A ^b   Harris, Robert J ^a  

^a Paradigm Research International   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0042016280     PISSN: 10667938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1066-7938(00)80063-9     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Browne, John. 1997. "Where BP Stands On Global Climate Change", address at Stanford University, May 19. http://www.bp.com/climate.html or booklet from BP London or BP America offices. See also Browne's address, "Global Climate Change: The Policy Options" delivered in Berlin September 30, 1997.
2. Browne, John. 1997. "Where BP Stands On Global Climate Change", address at Stanford University, May 19. http://www.bp.com/climate.html or booklet from BP London or BP America offices. See also Browne's address, "Global Climate Change: The Policy Options" delivered in Berlin September 30, 1997.
3. Leggett, Jeremy. 1993. Climate Change and the Insurance Industry. Greenpeace, London.
4. Insurance Firms Ask If Global Warming Swells Disaster Rate, Christian Science Monitor, March 29, 1995, Boston, MA
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8. Global Climate Coalition website: www.worldcorp.-com/dc-online/gcc/gailstatement.htm, June 18, 1997.
9. Redefining Progress website: http://www.rprogress.org-/pubs/ecstat.html
10. Interview with Peter Beadle, President of BP Solar U.S.
11. However, BP still takes a hard line on occasion. In 1997 BP sued Greenpeace, UK for U.S. $2.28M over the NGO's occupation of one of the company's North Sea drilling sites. BP: From Green to Mean? Business and the Environment, September 1997. Lexington, MA.
12. Berlin speech September 30, 1997. On website www.bp.com
13. Battelle PNL. 1997. Global Energy Strategy to Address Climate Change, project brochure, Washington, DC.
14. Interview with Ken Blower, BP America Director of HS&E, 8/5/97.
15. For example, warming of arctic tundra and bogs would release large quantities of methane, which increases greenhouse gas concentrations. Some studies indicate this is already happening.
16. Schwartz, Peter. 1991. The Art of the Long View. Doubleday Currency, NY. Discussions of Shell's scenario planning occur throughout the book.