Climate Changed
Big Oil Bids to Burnish Credentials in War on Climate Change
- Shell, BP make CEOs available to talk on curbing emissions
- Companies have shifted from talking little about decarbonizing
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The world’s biggest oil companies, for long typecast as villains of climate change, are seeking to reinvent themselves as environmental pioneers.
“We’re not going to be sitting back and say let’s see what society does and we’ll follow that,” said Ben van Beurden, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. “We’re more than prepared to be assertive and lean forward and say: ‘This is what it takes.”’