Appendix: Climate Scoring Profiles The following is also available on InfluenceMap’s online climate lobbying database. The Oil Majors Climate Policy Score: E+ Improvements in BP’s top line statements on climate change since 2015 appear increasingly disconnected from the companies’ lobbying on a range of climate and energy policy. Responding to the IPCC’s special report on 1.5C warming in October 2018, BP CEO Bob Dudley stated publicly - “Clearly it’s a call to action.” In the same month, however, responding to an an EU consultation, BP appears not to have supported increasing the region’s GHG emission reduction contribution by 2050. In 2016, BP’s Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and CEO Bob Dudley told shareholders that the company supported "strengthening" climate policy frameworks. However, this does not appear consistent with the company’s support for the US Administration’s rollback of regulations impacting their operations since this time. In 2017, former BP America CEO John Minge sent then US EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt a document with a handwritten note thanking him for his “vision” on regulatory reform. BP also lobbied the US Administration on reducing “regulatory burdens” impacting its operations. In 2018 BP CEO Bob Dudley thanked the Trump administration for the “avalanche of regulations” that have been reduced or removed. BP also actively lobbied the US Administration between 2016-2018 for the repeal or rollback of various methane emission requirements. Bob Dudley has separately explained that the company supports a "carbon price” as it is “by far a better way to go than regulation.” The company’s website states that the company supports either emissions trading or carbon taxes. Despite this, BP spent $13m in 2018 to oppose carbon pricing regulation in the US state of Washington which would have placed a $15 fee on every ton of CO2 produced. BP has also engaged through multiple channels, including direct consultations with consultations and along with EU trade body FuelsEurope, to weaken the impact of the EU ETS by pushing for greater immunity for industry installations through the allocation of free emission permits. BP’s high-level framing of a global energy transition, promoted through various messaging channels, suggests the need for a “gradual” approach, with increased short-term investment in “advantaged” oil and gas. The company has advocated with both EU and US policymakers for policy to support investment in CCS technologies in 2018. BP’s support for a transition from coal to gas in the power sector is premised on the notion that gas represents a permanent solution rather than a transition fuel. BP has also lobbied for measures to facilitate increased oil and gas development in the US in 2017-2018.. 22 InfluenceMap March 2019