UN Sustainable Development Goals
Stakeholders are increasingly looking to businesses to help address global development challenges. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a global framework to help countries, businesses and other stakeholders understand and address society’s most important challenges
We want to contribute to sustainable development and are working to do more to support the delivery of the SDGs. Our business activity touches directly or indirectly on many of the goals, but we’ve focused our effort on specific goals that most closely align with our current business strategy and purpose. These include affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, and climate action.
How we contribute to goals 7, 8 and 13
Through our business activities – delivering energy products and services to the world – we contribute directly to goals 7, 8 and 13.
We’re currently investing at least $500 million a year to support low carbon activities, including our renewables businesses and acquisitions
To promote an inclusive culture we support employee-run business resource groups, including those for ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, parenting and disability
We’ve set a new ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero
How we support the goals
The SDGs also include areas where we can have a positive impact or where we need to mitigate and manage any potential negative impacts. The way we work also supports the implementation of goals in countries where we have a presence. This includes goals 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15 and 17.
We contribute to these through our safety, environment, human rights, community, diversity and inclusion and wider business activity (tax, anti-bribery and corruption).
We support a range of public health programmes including efforts to combat malaria and improve safety for women giving birth
We invest in sustainable development projects that align with local needs, including water supply infrastructure in Mauritania
bp ventures is focused on exploring new opportunities with the potential to help us deliver the energy transition
To identify potential impacts we carry out detailed environmental and social assessments before starting major projects
Our marine mammal and sea turtle programmes improve our knowledge and inform our planned activities, to avoid the most sensitive areas
We’re working with IPIECA on developing industry good-practice guidance on the new post-2020 global biodiversity framework for our sector
Partnerships for the goals: we are working with our peers to create an oil and gas industry platform for supplier human rights assessments, with a particular focus on labour rights