Big carbon? Oil majors turn to nature to help plug revenue gap
6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Oil companies such as BP and Shell are nurturing nature as a future revenue stream, betting on an expected rise in carbon credit prices as their fossil fuel profits ebb. A dense stand of small trees clear-cut approximately 10 years earlier is seen from the edge of Hersey Mountain Wilderness in New Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S., December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz BP last year put $5 million into Finite Carbon, a company that connects forestry owners with companies seeking to offset their climate-warming emissions via-tree planting. The Californian firm expe...