The British Museum and Science Museum are facing pressure to sever ties with BP after the company abandoned renewable energy initiatives, signaling a renewed focus on fossil fuels. Campaigners from Culture Unstained argue that the institutions' acceptance of BP funding amounts to 'artwashing,' as public concern over climate change grows. With a surge of museums cutting ties with fossil fuel sponsors, these two institutions remain isolated and out of touch in light of the escalating climate crisis. Therefore, calls for urgently ending sponsorship deals with BP are increasing.
Over the past decade at least 15 UK cultural institutions have ended sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies, with the British Museum and Science Museum the last two still prepared to take money from companies selling coal, oil and gas.
Before this week, BP was already falling well short of internationally agreed climate targets due, in large part, to its significant investments in new oil and gas drilling.
With BP now brazenly recommitting to dirty fossil fuels, cultural organisations such as the British Museum and Science Museum must urgently move to end their sponsorship deals with the major polluter.
As climate impacts such as wildfires, hurricanes and flooding intensify, these museums will appear even more out-of-touch, and particularly with the concerns of.
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