GREENPEACE activists demonstrated outside the annual general meeting of oil giant BP today, calling on the firm to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy sources.

Brandishing a banner reading: “BP: Time to go renewable,” three activists from the environmental campaign group staged a socially distanced protest in front of BP’s offices in London’s St James’s Square. 

Greenpeace UK senior climate campaigner Mel Evans said: “BP’s boss Bernard Looney promised to ‘reimagine’ BP, but shareholders have been let down with empty statements and precious little action. 

“Mr Looney says he is committed to ‘net zero,’ while also promising that BP will be in the oil and gas business for ‘a very long time.’ He cannot have it both ways. 

“The only way BP can address its climate impact is to stop drilling for new oil and gas and switch to renewables. Otherwise, investors can expect more turmoil to come.”

Police attended the protest but took no action.