Climate and Palestine protesters target BP ahead of annual general meeting

Around 40 activists rallied outside of British Petroleum’s (BP) headquarters in London on Wednesday evening to protest the company’s role in the climate crisis and complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.

The protests came ahead of the company’s annual general meeting (AGM), which is expected to bring together executives and shareholders to assess BP’s 2024 performance, as well as set out its future goals. 

Organisers included Fossil Free London, Energy Embargo for Palestine, and the Free West Papua Campaign. 

Campaigners told Middle East Eye that they have been actively protesting BP since the start of the war on Gaza and that the Wednesday rally was specifically held on the eve of the company’s AGM, as it was “the most important event on their financial calendar”.

Leila, a spokesperson for Energy Embargo for Palestine, who did not want to give her surname, condemned the upcoming meeting as a celebration of “another year of profiteering from genocide and climate breakdown.” 

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