Bjorn Lomborg: The political climate on climate has changed

Financial Post · last updated May 21, 2025 – 2:45 AM

Over the past decade, however, even major contributors to climate change, including the fossil fuel industry itself, have invested in extraordinary green policies. Five years ago, BP made an astonishing promise to slash its oil and gas production by 40 per cent by 2030, while increasing green energy generation 20-fold and becoming net-zero. Now, along with other big western oil companies, it has abandoned what were farcical green promises and recommitted to its primary activity: fossil fuels.

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