The OGCI: Oil industry gamechanger or pro-gas greenwash?

Michael Holder
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10 CEOs of some of the world's biggest oil and gas firms came together last week to promote their low carbon investment work - but how much substance is there behind their welcome words?

"Looking back over the past three years, I'm struck by just how far we've come with the OGCI, and how quickly we've come," Bob Dudley, BP chief executive and current chair of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative,...

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