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12 iconic photos from a year of disruptions - and the struggle to protect our future

Times are hard for offshore oil and gas workers, and many are looking for a way out of the industry. These skilled workers could build our renewable energy future. So why aren’t they getting the help they need?

BP's new strategy drastically scales back the company's climate commitments from just a few years earlier

The support Greenpeace has received since being fined £80,000 for attempting to stop BP drilling for new oil has been staggering. Here’s a message of thanks from John Sauven, our Executive Director, and Meena Rajput, one of the activists

Greenpeace has been landed with £80,000 fine over the attempt to block a BP oil rig from drilling for 30 million barrels of new oil in the North Sea in June 2019. But Greenpeace will not give up its fight to protect our climate.

It’s clear that any new oil and gas drilling will hurt our chances of tackling climate change. But in 2018, the government granted BP a permit for a new oil well in the North Sea. After a legal challenge from Greenpeace, the government has admitted it granted the permit unlawfully.

Demand has plummeted because of Coronavirus, but oil workers shouldn’t pay the price for the industry’s latest crisis. Governments can help by giving them a way out.

To celebrate Earth Day 2020, let's take a tour of nine amazing places around this beautiful planet. How many have you heard of?

BP’s new CEO is setting out his ‘net zero carbon ambition’ for the oil and gas giant. Bernard Looney wants the company to be seen as kinder and cleaner, committed to tackling climate change. But unless he pulls BP out of the fossil fuel business, anything else is just spin.

Bernard Looney is trying to position the oil company as green and responsible. If BP's new CEO is serious, the company will quickly abandon oil and gas, and move into renewable energy. Until it does, BP will continue to be a major culprit in the climate emergency.