Almost one billion people in the world don't have access to electricity.
Imagine what it would be like for you to go home,
flick that switch and not be able to turn the lights on.
What would it be like if your children or your loved ones
couldn't turn on the lights at night?
When it's dark they can't do their homework, they can't do their homework they don't do well in school,
they don't do well in school they have no livelihood and future.
We do need increasing energy because that's what's gonna help lift people out of poverty, right?
That's when people get access to energy their lives improve considerably.
But we also know that there's a dual energy challenge.
We need to continue to meet the world's demand for energy
but we need to do so with far fewer emissions.
So this energy demand is increasing but, at the same time,
we need to drastically reduce emissions by at least 45% over the same time period,
so 20, 30 years to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
About 85% of the world's energy is coming from fossil fuels.
So changing that system isn't going to happen overnight.
We've been in the energy business for over a hundred years
so we have a huge amount of skills, capability and knowledge as to how the energy system works.
And the way we're working on that within BP
is through something called the Reduce, Improve, Create Framework.
So that's reducing emissions in our own operations, improving our products to help customers
lower their emissions and creating and investing in low carbon businesses.
In terms of transport for example we have
the UK's largest electric vehicle charging network in BP Chargemaster
and we now have over 7,000 charging points across the UK.
For all the electricity that we use for BP Chargemaster it's 100% renewable.
At the moment in the world we've about 5 million electric charging vehicles
and we could have as many as 350 million electric vehicles over the next 20 to 30 years
and all of those vehicles and customers will need access to convenient, reliable and fast charging at service stations.
Lightsource BP is a solar development company and it's one of the largest in the world
and it operates in 10 countries across the world so everywhere from Brazil to India and across Europe.
BP became part of that partnership in the last few years to help expand its reach
and to help really grow the pace of solar across the world.
In today's world the energy industry need to make sure
that we meet the needs of local communities and respect their wishes.
BP Target Neutral has been operating for over 10 years now.
By buying carbon offsets through this project BP Target Neutral
is supporting financing of projects that not just provide access to energy,
but are absolutely critical in improving health of low income families.
Over 4 million people die prematurely every year from household pollution.
They don't have access to clean fuels for cooking and heating inside their households.
The Cookstove project has benefitted 25,000 households in rural Mexico
and actually uses 58% less firewood.
They have previously used solid burning fuels inside their house.
This has contributed to a reduction of over 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide emission every year.
In Tangguh in Indonesia the local communities there only had access to energy for about 12 hours a day.
What we did in Tangguh was work with the local electricity company and the government
to be able to provide access to electricity for the local community
to help them improve their human development.
This was particularly important because it meant that local people, local communities could now focus their time
on their own needs and what they really wanted to do rather than
how to get fuel to provide power and electricity for the very basic things in life.
Significantly, hospitals could actually dedicate more of their budgets to hiring doctors and nurses
and providing services to people rather than having to pay for diesel fuel and generators.
The world will need many forms of energy for many years to come and there isn't a silver bullet to solving this.
This is one of the world's greatest challenges and we really see ourselves
as part of the solution and not part of the problem.
It's important that you kind of bring together all elements of society
to get after these complex challenges.
The very environment that we're trying to steward and protect
is inextricably linked with human needs and human development.
We make sure that, at the end of the day, people's health needs are met
whilst also provide access to energy to the world's poorest,
preserve our forests and our oceans for future generations.
I'm a natural optimist and I am hopeful;
the nations of the world gathered together in 2015
and agreed that action needed to be done on climate change under the Paris Agreement.
From society's perspective, I don't think awareness of climate change issues has ever been so high.
Over 6 million people marched around New York Climate Week demanding action
and the final reason why I'm optimistic is because of technology.
Things are changing at a rate that we never could have anticipated
and the range of technological solutions that we as a company alone are involved in
gives me hope every day.