BP Australia

This company won an award in 2013 from the Australian Packaging Covenant, for demonstrating their commitment to environmental sustainability by performing 'above and beyond' in their efforts to minimise waste. This company achieved the highest overall score in their category, transport, fuel and tobacco.
[Source 2013][More on Packaging]

100% Fairtrade Certified coffee and hot chocolate is available in all Wild Bean Cafes in Australia.
[Source 2015][More on Workers Rights]

In public, BP talks about its commitment to renewable energy and its tree-planting carbon offset schemes, but in 2009 the company has pulled out of several major renewable projects and reduced its investment in renewable energy substantially, while continuing to invest heavily in fossil fuels. Consumers International think a greenwash award is most definitely in order. [Listed under Information due to age of award]
[Source 2009][More on Irresponsible Marketing]

BP has received a number of multi-million dollar fines for safety breaches following an explosion at a Texas oil refinery in 2005 which killed 15 people. In court cases related to the incident BP were fined $13m in 2012, $51m in 2010, $87m in 2009, $373m in 2007, and $21.3m in 2005. [Listed under Information due to age of court findings]
[Source 2010][More on Workers Rights]

This company appeared second on RepRisk's top ten "most environmentally and socially controversial companies of 2010". Companies on the list were severely criticised during 2010 by the world's media, governments and NGOs. Criticisms of BP include involvement in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Canadian tar sands, fracking, human rights abuses in Angola, and ongoing violent persecution of unionized workers at its operations in Colombia. [Listed under Information due to age of report]
[Source 2010][More on Human Rights]

Named one of Multinational Monitor's '10 Worst Corporations of 2007' [listed under information due to age of report].
[Source 2007][More on Governance]

This company has been criticised by ActionAid for having subsidiaries in tax havens. One of the main reasons companies have subsidiaries in tax havens is to dodge their taxes. Developing countries lose more to tax dodging than they receive in aid each year.
[Source 2011][More on Finance]

BP is listed on the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database as having 63 instances of misconduct since 1995 amounting to almost US$15 billion in penalties. Instances include underpayment of royalties, safety violations, and pollution.
[Source 2013][More on Governance]

This company is a member of Bonsucro - Better Sugar Cane Initiative, a global non-profit, multi-stakeholder organisation fostering the sustainability of the sugarcane sector through its leading metric-based certification scheme and its support for continuous improvement for members.
[Source 2019][More on Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives]

The United Nations Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of 10 values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment, and anti-corruption. However it's non-binding nature has been widely criticised, and many signatory corporations continue to violate the Compact's values.
[Source x][More on Sustainability Reporting]

California, the UK and Australia have all enacted legislation requiring companies operating within their borders to disclose their efforts to eradicate modern slavery from their operations and supply chains. Follow the link to see this company's disclosure statement.
[Source 2017][More on Human Rights]

This company received an S&P Global ESG Score of 49/100 in the Oil & Gas - Upstream & Integrated category of the 2019 SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment, an annual evaluation of companies' sustainability practices. The rankings are based on an analysis of corporate economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as corporate governance, risk management, environmental reporting, climate strategy, human rights and labour practices.
[Source 2019][More on Sustainability Reporting]

The Corporate Research Project's Corporate Rap Sheets are dossiers summarising the most significant crimes, violations and other questionable activities of the world's largest and most controversial companies. Follow link to see this company's Corporate Rap Sheet. "The company has been the target of intense criticism for its role in the April 2010 explosion at a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and caused an underwater leak that spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean, creating the most serious environmental disaster in U.S. history. The company later paid a record $4 billion in fines and penalties while pleading guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges. This incident in the Gulf occurred while BP was still contending with the legal and public relations fallout from a deadly explosion at a refinery in Texas, oil spills in the Alaskan tundra, and charges of manipulating energy commodities markets. BP has also faced human rights charges in countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, and Colombia."
[Source 2018]

OpenSecrets.org tracks the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives. Follow link to see this company's record of political donations, lobbying, outside spending and more.
[Source 2014]