🏛️ BP, Russia and the @BritishMuseum 🧵

In 2014, the Russian state invaded Crimea.

In 2017, the Russian Ambassador and Cultural Attaché met with the museum's Director and Chair - and staff from their sponsor BP - before the press launch of its new #Scythians exhibition...

1/8 That exhibition involved collaboration between the British Museum and Russia's State Hermitage Museum - which BP also sponsored.

For years, BP strategically sponsored cultural orgs in both the UK and Russia - and the ties between them - to strengthen its influence.

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This week, @bp_plc CEO Bernard Looney sat down for an interview with @TIME magazine to try and convince the world that BP is "going green". 🙄

Here are just 5 reasons why you shouldn't be convinced by the answers he gave! 👇
time.com/6125315/bernar… 1. "Any objective person would struggle to say we are not all in on [the transition]."

But many analyses show that @bp_plc is NOT on a pathway to 1.5°C! 😠

BP's business plans - and its investments in new oil and gas - show it definitely isn't "all in"! worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/publication/oi…

We've said before how @tp_initiative's benchmark is NOT an effective way for the @sciencemuseum to assess its sponsors' commitments to #climateaction.

Now, @ReclaimFinance set out how it is 'misleading' and reaches 'a dangerous conclusion'!

A SHORT 🧵
reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2021/1… 1. @ReclaimFinance explains that TPI's analysis of corporate "carbon performance" relies solely on companies' claims.

Then, TPI gives its scores based on their claims 'even if companies put forward unrealistic ambitions'!

(Cause Big Oil is known for being trustworthy, right?)