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    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      COP27
      When it comes to climate, we need to start thinking about Plan C

      Geoengineering is risky and undesirable but thinking of pragmatic insurance policies is important

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Moral Money
      What BP’s former chief Lord Browne regrets Premium content

      Plus, is Toyota really serious about electric vehicles?

    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      ESG investing
      Business can be a force for change on climate

      Investment in practical ways to get to net zero will help deliver the solutions we need

    • Saturday, 18 July, 2020
      News in-depth
      John Browne: oil man caught up in Huawei backlash

      The champion of global business was always a reluctant establishment figure

    • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
      Huawei Technologies
      Huawei UK chair Lord Browne to step down early

      Earlier-than-expected exit coincides with UK move to ban Chinese company equipment

    • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
      InterviewOil & Gas industry
      Former BP chief says energy groups need to speed up transitions

      John Browne warns that continuing business as usual is no longer an option

    • Monday, 1 July, 2019
      Tech Tonic podcast26 min listen
      John Browne on engineering the future

      John Thornhill talks to the former chief executive of BP

    • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
      Healthcare
      Technology can propel healthcare out of the Middle Ages      

      Engineers today are developing extraordinary abilities to understand and intervene with physiology    

    • Friday, 14 June, 2019
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Make, Think, Imagine by John Browne — engineering a better world

      Former boss of BP calls for greater imagination in planning and design to advance society at large

    • Sunday, 30 December, 2018
      Oil & Gas industry
      The energy industry must engage with climate change

      Leaders of oil and gas companies need to challenge orthodoxy and take some risks

    • Tuesday, 4 December, 2018
      Oil & Gas industry
      Lord Browne’s DEA to buy Sierra Oil and Gas

      German oil and gas producer looks to expand foothold in Mexico ahead of Wintershall merger

    • Monday, 12 February, 2018
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Drillers turn to big data in the hunt for more, cheaper oil

      Under pressure from renewables, energy groups are again looking to tech for answers

    • Wednesday, 20 December, 2017
      The Big ReadAndrew Ward
      BP wins struggle to keep pace with its peers

      The oil major hampered for years by Deepwater Horizon costs now believes it has turned the corner under chief executive Bob Dudley

    • Sunday, 10 December, 2017
      European companies
      ‘Big is beautiful’ in oil industry, says former BP chief 

      DEA and BASF merger marks return of John Browne to frontline dealmaking

    • Thursday, 7 December, 2017
      European companies
      BASF agrees to merge energy unit with Fridman’s DEA
    • Friday, 17 November, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Suppliant Women at the Young Vic, London — a fierce, beautiful staging of Aeschylus’s drama

      A moving plea for equality and humanity is led by a chorus of young women from the local community

    • Thursday, 26 October, 2017
      Special ReportExecutive Diversity
      ‘Pink ceiling’ keeps LGBT workers from top jobs

      To improve diversity, boards must stop hiring chief executives in their own image

    • Sunday, 1 October, 2017
      InterviewPharmaceuticals sector
      Francis Crick Institute looks to turn discoveries into treatments

      Former BP boss John Browne becomes chairman of £650m biomedical science centre

    • Thursday, 22 June, 2017
      Special ReportResponsible Business
      Why doing the right thing pays off in turbulent times

      For its own good, business must ensure Brexit and political chaos do not stop it aiming high

    • Monday, 26 September, 2016
      Personal & Household Goods
      Huawei’s smartwatch tries to win the west

      Huawei’s wearable tech has entered a market dominated by Apple, but its vice-president thinks it can compete in the US

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2016
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Big Oil: From black to green

      Despite pressure to develop renewables, many energy majors see more money in traditional markets

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2016
      Climate change
      Ignore climate change at your peril, Lord Browne warns oil groups

      Former BP chief calls for greater investment in renewable energy

    • Monday, 9 May, 2016
      Batteries
      Total: green as read

      Greater attention to renewable energy makes good copy

    • Tuesday, 2 February, 2016
      LombardKate Burgess
      Ocado looks set to be overtaken in race to deliver on promises

      Sainsbury’s deal to buy Home Retail Group shines a harsh light on Tim Steiner’s efforts

    • Tuesday, 24 November, 2015
      Climate change
      Energy groups accused of inadequate action on carbon emissions

      Former heads of BP and Shell take industry to task

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