BP Calls on Investors to Reject Emissions-Targets Proposal

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Wall Street Journal | April 10, 2019

BP has called on its shareholders to reject a climate resolution filed by activist investor Follow This that requests it to set targets for emissions from the consumers of its products.

In the notice of annual general meeting distributed today to shareholders, the BP board opposed the resolution filed by the Netherlands-based group of some 4,600 shareholders that urges oil-and-gas companies to set long-term targets in line with the Paris Agreement.

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