https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/the-british-museum-drop-bp
Last
year, all signs showed that - after 27-years - BP’s dirty sponsorship of the
British Museum was finally over…
But, in a shocking move, the museum has signed a NEW
sponsorship deal with the oil and gas giant - which will run for 10 YEARS!
After decades of backing climate
delay and denial, BP is still pushing the world deeper into climate breakdown.
Earlier this year, BP said it would increase investment in the production of
fossil fuels by about $1 billion a year, above its previous plans for the rest
of the decade. This is the total opposite direction that we should be heading
in.
Crucially, BP’s business plans are
not aligned with the goal of limiting global heating to 1.5°C, the target that world
leaders have signed up to in the Paris Climate Agreement.
Communities in Argentina, West Papua,
Mexico, and Azerbaijan – to name but a few – have faced violence and
imprisonment for standing up against BP’s extraction, pollution and corruption.
And today, BP continues to work closely with human rights-abusing regimes in
order to gain access to their oil and gas reserves, and used its exhibition
sponsorship at the Museum to advance its business interests in countries such
as Egypt, Iraq and Russia.
But things can change. From the
National Portrait Gallery to the Royal Shakespeare Company, most of the
cultural sector has largely cut ties to fossil fuel funding, and a new ethical
standard for sponsorship has been set.
But once again, The British Museum has
chosen to be on the wrong side of history. It has decided to back profit-making
polluters, not the people.
Enough is enough.
It’s time to draw a red line - and
stop backing BP.
Please sign our NEW PETITION telling
Chair George Osborne that enough is enough!
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/the-british-museum-drop-bp