BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited

In a September 2015 resolution, the European Parliament said that Azerbaijan had “suffered the greatest decline in democratic governance in all of Eurasia over the past 10 years.” “Big Oil, particularly companies like BP, are dominant and direct partners to many of the world’s most authoritarian regimes,” said Patrick Bond, author of the Politics of Climate Justice and a specialist in development economics at the University of Johannesburg. “These regimes could not exist without BP as their ‘investor’ and the revenue from resources like oil and gas are used to militarise and crush public resistance.”