According to CEO, Sir John Brown, the scheme is a central tool to achieve the group’s commitment to a 10% greenhouse gas emissions reduction from 1990 to 2010. BP says that theirs will be the first ever global greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme actually put in place.

The company will use a cap and trade scheme, details of which are provided in an Adobe Acrobat file linked below (requires Acrobat Reader).

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