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Five years on from BP's ambitious pledge, the climate has changed in every sense

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Five years ago , BP 's chief executive pledged to produce less oil and gas.

Bernard Looney announced that BP "would become a very different kind of energy company" The aim was to make BP net-zero by 2050 , an aspiration environmental campaigners never dared to imagine they would hear from a fossil fuel giant.

Mr Looney is gone, dismissed for being a little too charismatic in undisclosed relationships with employees.

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