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COLUMN-BP slammed for lofty climate change ambition, Rio ignored for small step: Russell | NASDAQ. In a far less splashy announcement, Rio Tinto RIO.AX, the world's second-largest mining company, said it was committing A$98 million ($65 million) to building a solar farm and battery storage system at a remote iron ore mine in Western Australia. The BP announcement could be easily attacked by critics as just another attempt at "greenwashing" by a big company whose products are carbon emissions intensive. BP has said it will provide a more detailed breakdown of how it will achieve its net zero emissions by September, and perhaps the company should be given the benefit of the doubt until this is released. But the less than positive reaction to BP's announcement underscored the risks to companies that operate in emissions intensive industries. While BP may well be planning to "walk the talk", for now it remains an example of the public relations effort seemingly getting ahead of the actual actions.

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COLUMN-BP slammed for lofty climate change ambition, Rio ignored for small step: Russell | NASDAQ. In a far less splashy announcement, Rio Tinto RIO.AX, the world's second-largest mining company, said it was committing A$98 million ($65 million) to building a solar farm and battery storage system at a remote iron ore mine in Western Australia. The BP announcement could be easily attacked by critics as just another attempt at "greenwashing" by a big company whose products are carbon emissions intensive. BP has said it will provide a more detailed breakdown of how it will achieve its net zero emissions by September, and perhaps the company should be given the benefit of the doubt until this is released. But the less than positive reaction to BP's announcement underscored the risks to companies that operate in emissions intensive industries. While BP may well be planning to "walk the talk", for now it remains an example of the public relations effort seemingly getting ahead of the actual actions.

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COLUMN-BP slammed for lofty climate change ambition, Rio ignored for small step: Russell | NASDAQ. In a far less splashy announcement, Rio Tinto RIO.AX, the world's second-largest mining company, said it was committing A$98 million ($65 million) to building a solar farm and battery storage system at a remote iron ore mine in Western Australia. The BP announcement could be easily attacked by critics as just another attempt at "greenwashing" by a big company whose products are carbon emissions intensive. BP has said it will provide a more detailed breakdown of how it will achieve its net zero emissions by September, and perhaps the company should be given the benefit of the doubt until this is released. But the less than positive reaction to BP's announcement underscored the risks to companies that operate in emissions intensive industries. While BP may well be planning to "walk the talk", for now it remains an example of the public relations effort seemingly getting ahead of the actual actions.

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A multicomponent intervention implemented in rural communities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka led to greater BP reductions in participants with hypertension compared with usual care, according to data from the COBRA-BPS trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine. “The unique feature of our trial is the rural-centric nature of the intervention wherein regular BP monitoring and health promotion are brought to the individual proactively by the trained community health worker rather than wait for the individual to seek medical attention,” Tazeen H. Jafar, MD, MPH, professor of health services and systems research at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, told Healio. Villages were assigned to a multicomponent intervention (n = 1,330; mean age, 59 years; 66% women; mean systolic BP at baseline, 146.7 mm Hg) or usual care (n = 1,315; mean age, 59 years; 63% women; mean systolic BP at baseline, 144.7 mm Hg). “The clinical practices need to reconfigure and offer proactive community outreach care including BP monitoring and lifestyle coaching by trained nonphysician health professionals to the patients, especially those with poorly controlled hypertension, and referrals to physicians who then prescribe and titrate antihypertensive medications and underscore adherence to antihypertensive medications to achieve BP control,” Jafar said in an interview.

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/NOT FOR DISSEMINATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS, ANY STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ./. Mr. Dhanani has gained this expertise over the course of 40 years while, for the most part, working with major oil companies including BP and ExxonMobil. While at BP, Shiraz was the Technical Director of BP in Libya where he played an integral role in negotiating a multi-billion dollar exploration and appraisal contract comprising 54,000 square kilometres (over 13,000,000 acres) in the Libyan onshore Ghadames basin and deep offshore Sirt basins. Shiraz was also part of the BP team which commenced the world's largest seismic operation both onshore and offshore Libya , as well as initiating an extensive exploration drilling program to develop the assets. ReconAfrica is a junior oil and gas company engaged in the development of the newly discovered Kavango Sedimentary Basin, in northeast Namibia , where the Company holds a 90% working interest in a petroleum license, comprising approximately 6.3 million contiguous acres. Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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Warren Buffett has started the biggest energy revolution Last September, Warren Buffett struck a historic deal marking the beginning of the biggest disruption in energy since the First Industrial Revolution. BP has announced a “net zero” emissions plan In the latest move, BP announced its “ambition” to eliminate emissions from its operations, as well as from the oil and gas it directly extracts, by 2050. A recent study has now revealed that India would need to scale up its current solar capacity to nearly 30 times, or about 1,000 gigawatts, to transition about half a million people directly working in coal mines. U.S. NGO installs solar panels in maternity wards in Zimbabwe Staff and patients celebrated at Beatrice Government Hospital this week after a U.S. charity known as We Care Solar installed solar power in the medical center’s labor and maternity wards.

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UAE-headquartered Tristar Group has signed a four year contract with BP to provide a range of liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping services. The value of the deal, which will include services relating to LNG trading and delivery, is estimated to be worth around US$24 million. The contract with BP, one of Tristar’s longest standing clients, follows the recent addition to the Dubai-based company’s shipping fleet of its first LNG tanker, Tristar Ruby, formerly British Ruby. The vessel, originally built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2008, will be technically managed by Wilhelmsen Ship Management and commercially operated by Tristar.

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Speaking at the museum’s BP Lecture Theatre, she explored the debate around the ethics of having children at a time of climate crisis. Critics say the oil giant’s sponsorship of institutions such as the British Museum acts to “artwash” BP. With the emphasis on the “carbon footprint”, companies such as BP “have invested in propaganda that cleverly deflects responsibility for emissions from the company on to the individual”, she said as she delivered the lecture in the theatre sponsored by the energy giant. Her comments come after protests at the British Museum ended following more than 50 hours, amid a row over the oil company’s sponsorship.

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BP CEO plans to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Oil giant BP plans to reach net zero emissions by the year 2050 or even sooner. Yahoo Finance’s On The Move panel discusses.

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