Sustainability Report 2025
Our sustainability report sets out our approach to safety and sustainability and our progress on our aims for net zero operations, net zero sales, people, biodiversity and water
“In the year since we reset our strategy and streamlined our sustainability aims, we continued to work on delivering our priorities and embedding sustainability into the way we work. This builds on the work of many years, and on extensive collaboration inside bp, so I want to thank our teams for their commitment, especially in a year of change for our company.”
Raffa Winter
SVP strategy & sustainability
Safety comes first
At bp safety comes first. We know there is always more we can do to improve safety performance. Our goal is to eliminate all fatalities, life-changing injuries and the most serious process safety incidents, and we continue to work to strengthen bp’s safety culture.
Performance at a glance
Getting to net zero
Net zero operations
37%ab
reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions compared to the 2019 baseline
2024 38%
Net zero operations
0.04%c
methane intensity
2024 0.07%
Net zero sales
7%d
reduction in the average lifecycle carbon intensity of the energy products we sold against the 2019 baseline
2024 6%
Improving people's lives
Learning and development
bp employees collectively completed around 2.1 million hours of formal learning (2024 1.2 million hours)
Social investment
Since 2020 the projects we have supported have directly helped more than 500,000 people
Caring for the planet
Biodiversity
Since 2022 we have provided funding for eight biodiversity restoration projects, located in the UK, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Türkiye and the US
Water
15
fall in freshwater consumption, compared with our 2020 baseline. Our freshwater withdrawals also reduced by 15%
Our stories
Read more on how we’re embedding sustainability across bp and our progress in 2025.
Methane measurement in Tangguh
The deployment of enhanced methane measurement and monitoring technologies in our Tangguh LNG plant, Indonesia, has provided insights that have enabled the operations team to optimize certain aspects of operations to reduce flaring. This included work on reducing flare purges, optimizing molecular sieve operations, and improving tanker loading, resulting in a 45ktCO2e saving in operational GHG emissions.
Advancing inclusion in Oman
In 2025 bp Oman launched the ‘gift to the nation’ initiative together with national and local government, to support equal opportunities for Omanis with disabilities through training and accessible education. The initiative, which aims to support more than 44,000 people across Oman, continues our longstanding social investment in Oman. Since 2014 around 250,000 people have benefited from programmes such as the Sharah programme, which provided professional and life skills training for 40 people with hearing disabilities in 2025, and the Hope Programme, which ran around 25 STEM workshops in three schools for children with special needs.
Water management in India
A Castrol manufacturing depot located in Silvassa, India, a region facing high water stress, is taking action to support sustainable water management. Recognizing the need to reduce its dependency on freshwater, the depot initiated a comprehensive water stewardship programme, which started with a detailed assessment to identify ways of becoming more water efficient. From 2018-24 the plant achieved a 69% reduction in freshwater use, thanks to several key actions, including the installation of digital water meters, reuse of treated wastewater for on-site irrigation, installation of a rooftop rainwater harvesting system, and awareness campaigns to engage employees. The Castrol depot also commissioned research into the feasibility of groundwater recharge – the natural or artificial process where water moves downward from surface water to replenish underground aquifers. As a result, bp and United Way Mumbai launched a project that is intended to allow considerable volumes of freshwater to be recharged every year.
Our sustainability frame
Our sustainability frame
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow.
Our sustainability frame underpins delivery of our strategy, and our refreshed sustainability aims are focused on those that are most relevant to the long-term success of our business.
Net zero operations
Our aim is to reach net zero by 2050 or sooner for Scope 1 and 2 emissions within bp’s operational controle, including by maintaining ‘near-zero’ methane intensity across our operated producing assets, enabled by supportive government policies.
Net zero sales
Our aim is to reduce to net zero the average lifecycle carbon intensity of the energy products we sell by 2050 or sooner, enabled by supportive government policies and the decarbonization of energy demand.
People
Our aim is to support our employees and local communities through the energy transition.
Biodiversity
Our aim is to support biodiversity where we operatef.
Water
Our aim is to reduce our net freshwater use in stressed catchments where we operate.
a. Reduction in absolute emissions against the 2019 baseline.
b. In 2025 bp made an adjustment to the operational control boundary for Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions. This means certain operations, assets or sources which were previously included, such as power generation on contractor-operated drilling rigs, are now excluded. This change has a less than 1% impact on reported operational emissions for 2025. For more information on the scope of bp’s operational control boundary see bp.com/basisofreporting
c. Since 2024 reported absolute methane emissions from major operated oil and gas processing sites are based on our new measurement approach. Prior to 2024 these emissions were calculated using a different methodology and therefore the methane intensity reported in those years and calculated using that data does not directly correlate to progress towards delivering the 2025 target
d. Reduction in the average lifecycle carbon intensity of sold energy products against the 2019 baseline. The percentage change is calculated from the source data instead of the rounded carbon intensity number.
e. On a CO2e basis
f. At our new in scope bp-operated projects and major operating sites
