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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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