ExxonKnews
September 11, 2024
“Authenticating BP's commitment to low carbon.” That was the role BP’s public relations firm envisioned for Princeton University as a “partner” for the oil giant, as described in an internal 2017 strategy memo, even as the company would go on to increase fossil fuel production in the years to come. BP still sponsors Princeton’s Climate Mitigation Initiative seven years later.
That episode is just one example of how oil and gas companies have rooted themselves in universities’ climate and energy programs to greenwash their reputations and delay the transition to renewables, according to a study published last week in the peer-reviewed journal WIREs Climate Change.
