The speakers discuss the existence of frozen and active conflicts around the world, the changes in the global power balance, and the need to reconstruct supply chains and address security concerns. They emphasize the importance of thinking clearly and finding ways to make relationships between nations work, and touch upon frozen conflicts.
What Big Oil knew — from climate to Iraq.
John Browne, Chairman of BeyondNetZero, was CEO of BP from 1995 – 2007. In 1997, he broke ranks with the industry and delivered a landmark speech on the impact of burning fossil fuels on the climate. But this was two decades after Exxon had hired their own climate scientists and buried the results.
John explains what he and his executive team knew in the mid-nineties, insisting they began working solutions as soon as they understood the planet was heating up. However, as I point out, there are clues on BP’s website which suggest the company knew beforehand. We also discuss the impact of resources and particularly fossil fuels on conflict with John revealing he was invited to the Pentagon around the time of the Iraq war to estimate how much oil was in the Middle East nation.
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