BP attacked over CO2 emissions

BP drew fire yesterday from environmentalists for quietly halving its estimate of the carbon emissions that result from all the oil and gas it produces.

But, as Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation pointed out, last year’s sustainability report had a figure of 1,376m tonnes of CO2 equivalent for 2004, double the new figure. A BP spokeswoman said this was because BP was now counting only the CO2 produced from the oil, oil products, chemicals and gas it produces itself, rather than all the oil and gas some of its operations buy in and sell on.

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