New Year – New CEO – New Chair
A chance for bp to show its values don’t expire when people retire.
As bp enters 2026 with new leadership at the top, it also inherits a legacy issue that won’t simply fade with time: the bp pensions scandal.
For more than three years, thousands of loyal employees and retirees have lived with the consequences of decisions that broke with bp’s own stated policies on pension increases. Decisions that contradicted the promises people relied on for their retirement. Decisions that undermined trust in a company that once prided itself on doing the right thing—even when it was difficult.
Leadership changes create a moment of choice.
A moment to reset.
A moment to repair what has been damaged.
Honouring the pension increase policies that were promised would send a powerful signal: that bp’s values are not just marketing lines, and they don’t have a shelf life that ends at retirement. It would show that integrity still matters. That commitments still matter. That people still matter.
Equally important, it would demonstrate a return to the bp Code of Conduct—the very standard that requires fairness, transparency, and honouring commitments.
The new Chair and incoming CEO face a defining choice.
Not to bury the past, as previous leadership have done — but to confront it.
To honour what was promised.
To right the wrongs of the last three years.
To restore trust.
To prove that bp still stands for something worth believing
Join our call for bp to demonstrate real accountability — to choose integrity over indifference, and rebuild trust by making things right.