We support the continuing search for lower carbon energy alternatives and solutions to climate change around the world:

Energy and Biosciences Institute

In 2006, we announced an investment of $500 million over 10 years to establish the Energy Biosciences Institute. The institute will carry out radical research to probe the emerging secrets of bioscience and applying them to the production of new and cleaner energy, principally fuels for road transport. It will also pursue bioscience-based research in three other key areas: the conversion of heavy hydrocarbons to clean fuels; improved recovery from existing oil and gas reservoirs; and carbon sequestration.

Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University, China

BP is supporting a 10 year $10 million programme called ‘Clean Energy - Facing the Future'. The programme is looking at potential breakthroughs in clean energy technologies to enable China and the rest of the world to meet future demand for energy without damaging the environment. We've also provided a $500,000 grant to help establish the Tsinghua BP Clean Energy Research and Education Centre.

Imperial College, UK

BP has launched an $8 million Urban Energy Systems project to research the use of energy in cities. The project will explore in detail how energy, people and materials flow through a city and how money and energy could be saved in the future.

The CO2 Capture and Geological Storage Project

The CO2 Capture and Geological Storage Project (CCP), which brings together BP and a range of other companies, supported by the UK, US and Norwegian governments, has moved into a new $50 million phase, focusing on the safety and security of geological storage and reducing the uncertainties around technology cost and performance.

The Carbon Mitigation Initiative

The Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) is a science and technology collaborative project between BP, Ford Motor Company and Princeton University. CMI is a $20 million project and in it's sixth year. The CMI project continues to work on improving understanding of the science as well as developing technology and strategies to help solve the climate change problem.

In Salah, Algeria

A $30 million science project has been established to take advantage of the learning from this CO2 capture and storage initiative already underway at a gas production site operated by BP in Algeria. This project also plans to develop and test new tools for CO2 monitoring and surveillance.

Stanford University, US

We're sponsoring a three-year research programme worth $2m, covering the public policy aspects of modern energy markets.