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Nature 411, 516-518 (31 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35079275
A change of climate for big oil
Mark Schrope1
Abstract
As European environmentalists launch a boycott of US oil firms, other energy companies are winning praise for their efforts to tackle climate change. Mark Schrope examines the oil giants' divergent strategies.
It is rare indeed to find an oil executive who has the respect of environmentalists — but in May 1997, John Browne, group chief executive of the London-based oil company BP, became just that. Speaking at Stanford University in California, Browne was the first senior executive of an oil company to acknowledge that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases probably caused global warming, and to recommend that action be taken.
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