“Carl-Henrik Svanberg was king in oljeriket – now he refuses to talk”
“The multinational oljejättarna say they are concerned about the climate. In important international magazines they usually have ads where they say they are with us – the general public, decent politicians, the UN, the scientists – all of us, the overwhelming majority of the world’s people, who fear a climate catastrophe.”
“They say one thing and do something else.”
“A british think tank has identified was oljejättarna putting their money on advertising and lobbying. BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Total invested over a billion dollars, ten billion, in efforts to mislead the general and decision-makers, according to the think tank InfluenceMap.”
“The overall purpose was to stop the binding regulations towards the emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and to maintain the public’s support for the oil industry.”
“Such reports are sometimes difficult to grasp. They contain many figures and data, but becomes almost abstract. Oljejättarna are so large that they are like states, but close, and more difficult to understand. BP has 74 000 employees in 70 countries. The year 2018 was the company’s revenue to 304 billion dollars. This is significantly more than the gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced in the country. It is 252 billion dollars.”
“In oljeriket BP) was a Swedish king. Carl-Henric Svanberg. He came from Ericsson and was elected chairman of the board of BP, one of the world’s most powerful industriposter.”
“Where was inhabited and he in nine years, until last december 2018.”
“For the Swedish public is well Svanberg today most famous for being the chairman of the board of Volvo. And for that he bought a ”townhouse”, a town house in the fashionable Östermalm district in Stockholm, sweden, for sek 120 million.”
“On the BP he seems to have done a great job. Last year the company produced the equivalent of 3.7 million barrels of oil per day. It was the largest production since 2010, the year in which Svanberg became chairman of the board. During the Svanbergs management set the company the target of four million barrels per day in 2020.”
“perhaps It is good for BP’s shareholders. But it is not good for the world. We are in the midst of an existential crisis, we cannot continue to live in the oil-based society.”
“the Report from the InfluenceMap illustrates this conflict between the pursuit of growth and profit, and the necessary transition.”
“Oljejättarna all say that they care about our future, that we must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. At the same time, they do something else. ExxonMobil, for example, acted actively in order to so doubts about climate change, writes InfluenceMap. Much like the tobacco companies sowed doubt about the cancerfaran. When it was longer, changed the oil company tactics. It stressed instead that the jobs that are threatened by the action against climate change.”
“the oil companies say that they are researching in new technologies, which will result in lower emissions. But only three per cent of their investment goes to those projects, write InfluenceMap.”
“Sometimes works against the direct action to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. Last year gave BP 13 million dollars to a campaign that successfully stopped the tax on carbon dioxide in the u.s. state of Washington, writes InfluenceMap.”
“Carl-Henric Svanberg is one of the few persons named in the report. In 2016, he said BP supports a ”strengthening” of climate legislation. But 2018 thanked BP Trumpadministrationen to the deregulated oil industry.”
“I am convinced that Carl-Henric Svanberg is a rekorderlig karl. He is also clearly intelligent, both engineering and economics.”
“Therefore, it would be interesting to hear how he looks at these issues. A multinational giant interests versus the global climate. The individual’s responsibility in an organization. How will we solve the climate crisis.”
“But Carl-Henric Svanberg sound health that he resigned as chairman of the board of BP and think it would be wrong to comment on the critical report.”
“He is referring to BP’s press office.”
