Our latest Climate Transition Action Plan (CTAP)

In August 2024, we published our second Climate Transition Action Plan (CTAP 2024) that included our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) targets and goals and strategy to pursue them. 

We put the CTAP to a shareholder advisory vote at our 2024 Annual General Meeting and received a 92 per cent vote in favour. 

Since the 1990s, we have set and achieved targets for Scopes 1 and 2 emissions from our operated assets.¹ We call these operational GHG emissions and we are working to extend our track record of delivery through our CTAP 2024.  

While we work to decarbonise our operations, we also seek to support our suppliers and customers to do the same. As Scope 3 emissions relate to their businesses, we cannot directly control them, however we can seek to influence better outcomes through our procurement decisions and the investments and partnerships we choose to pursue.  

The road from ambition to abatement is hard. No business can navigate it alone. In fact, we need industry and government to walk it together to achieve the world’s net zero ambitions. This is why we continue to support government policies aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement and conduct our advocacy efforts consistent with our Climate Policy Principles.  

Our CTAP 2024 reaffirms our intent to play our part in this global effort – producing more of the essential commodities the world needs to develop and decarbonise; investing to reduce our operational GHG emissions; and collaborating to support lower GHG emissions in our value chain.  

The climate change targets and goals published in our CTAP 2024 are unchanged. Certain aspects of our assumptions and plans relating to decarbonisation since our CTAP 2024 have been updated, and are outlined in our BHP Annual Report 2025, Operating and Financial Review 9.8, and BHP Annual Report 2026, Operating and Financial Review 9.10 – Climate change and Sustainability Report. 

BHP’s 2026 Sustainability Report provides an overview of our climate performance in FY2026 and updates on our progress and pathways towards our climate-related targets and goals. 

1. Includes achievement of the following targets set by BHP: Reduction in the GHG emissions intensity of our operations by 10 per cent between FY1995 and FY2000; reduction in the GHG emissions intensity of our operations by 5 per cent between FY2002 and FY2007; maintaining operational GHG emissions below our FY2006 baseline by FY2017, while growing our business; and maintaining operational GHG emissions (Scopes 1 and 2 emissions from our operated assets) at or below FY2017 levels by FY2022 while we continue to grow our business.