BP's new chairman has called for new ways of working to stop economic growth putting excessive strain on the world's resources.
Carl-Henric Svanberg, chief executive of Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson, told the Financial Times that the pace of growth of car ownership and air travel was unsustainable.
“With a normal growth rate, the world's GDP will triple by 2015 and we will probably see another 2bn people in the world,” he said. “And if we continue to do things in the world in the same way as we do today, it will not be so easy for this planet to cope with that. So we have to find more intelligent solutions and the energy industry is in the centre of that.”