Improving people‎’s‎ lives

Just transition  

We support the goals of the Paris Agreement, which recognize the importance of a just transition – one that delivers decent work and quality jobs and supports the livelihoods of local communities. 

We also support the International Labour Organization Guidelines on Just Transition and believe respect for human rights and strong environmental and social performance are necessary for a just transition. Our policies and practices reflect this.  

We are collaborating with stakeholders to support a just transition – with a focus on helping to advance human rights, for example, by supporting civic dialogue, transparency and capacity building in civil society organizations. 

For our employees – we are investing in developing our employees around the world, to help build skills and capabilities that are relevant to the energy transition and will help deliver our strategy.  
 
For local communities – to support a just transition, we are engaging with local stakeholders, including communities, as we develop projects, drawing on our longstanding experience in community engagement. 

In 2024 our activities in support of a just transition for local communities included: 

• Collaborations in Teesside, Tees Valley and Scotland in the UK, to support a range of social, economic and skills development and retraining projects. For example, we are supporting Redcar and Cleveland College’s Clean Energy Technician Scholarship which is designed to give participants the skills for a career in low carbon energy.
• Working with Creating Communities, a social impact consultancy, to help us engage with local stakeholders during the development of projects in West Australia. It resulted in the development of a set of just transition principles that are used to guide the projects’ approach to risk management, social investment and stakeholder engagement. 

 
For industry – we are active participants in several industry-wide and business-driven organizations and initiatives, including: 

• Energy for Just Transition, led by Business for Social Responsibility and The B Team. 
• Business in the Community Climate Action Leadership Team. 
• The Business Commission to Tackle Inequality’s Just Transition Working Group.  
• Ipieca Just Transition Taskforce. 

Inclusive culture 

Diversity and inclusion are central to our culture frame, ‘Who we are’.  To deliver our strategy we believe we need to capitalize on the diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, skills and experiences within our workforce.  

Our employee-run business resource groups play a key role in bringing employees together in areas such as social mobility, age diversity gender, ethnicity and disability. Each group is sponsored by a member of the bp leadership team, is open to all employees and provides a representative voice for employees. 

For our employees – we continue to build on our inclusive culture and support the development of our diverse workforce. For example, in 2024 we:   

• Made progress to increase the representation of indigenous Papuans in the workforce at our Tangguh facility in Indonesia. By the end of 2024 70% of people working there were Papuan.  
• Launched a campaign aimed at women who want to build a successful career in India, highlighting what working life is like at bp and giving access to information on flexible working policies. 

For our suppliers – we are working to increase our engagement with certified divers suppliers, including: 

• Development programmes that provide soft skills, technical training and networking to help them compete for sourcing opportunities with bp. 
• Sponsoring the ‘Diverse & Inclusive Supply Chain’ survey conducted by Business in the Community in the UK. 

 
For our customers – we continuously review and adapt our services to meet our customers’ diverse needs, for example: 

• We track retail customer feedback through a survey in 15 countries, inviting participants to tell us how inclusive they find our mobility and convenience sites. 
• We are rolling out a global training programme to help our frontline employees offer a better service to all customers. 
• In the US we work in partnership with fuelService to enable customers with disabilities to call or message ahead of their visit to arrange assistance at bp and Amoco retail sites. We also offer an equivalent service in the UK.   

Footnotes:

^aWe will work to develop just transition plans with input from potentially affected stakeholders to help manage social risks and opportunities.