With similar climate-change resolutions expected at Shell and Statoil, Guardian interviews raise questions about extent of activists’ collaboration with oil giants
Directing proceedings from a stage emblazoned with BP’s green and yellow sunburst livery, chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg appeared aglow with satisfaction at the oil-and-gas group’s shareholder meeting two weeks ago as plaudits rained in from the unlikeliest quarters.
Environmentally concerned investors, led by those acting for the Church of England, were queuing up to shower Britain’s biggest fossil fuel company with praise for what they saw as the board’s “completely unprecedented” decision to endorse a resolution tabled on climate change by a coalition of activists, some of whom had links to BP’s fiercest critics.
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