The London-based company said that it plans a 10-fold increase in annual low carbon investments to $5 billion by 2030 as it tries to deliver on its promise of net zero emissions by 2050 and prepares for a world that uses much less oil.

The company expects demand for fossil fuels to fall by 75% over the next 30 years if the increase in global temperatures is limited to 1.5 degrees celsius, or by 50% if warming is less than 2 degrees, BP head of strategy Giulia Chierchia told investors. BP said its oil and gas production will fall by at least one million barrels a day by 2030, a 40% reduction on 2019 levels.

The coronavirus pandemic has hammered demand for oil, gas and coal, with factories shut, planes grounded and motorists ordered to stay at home.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/04/business/bp-oil-clean-energy/index.html

Ruling class want you to live in misery, cold and not much food (surprise - all present food low prices are due extreme amount of cheap fertilisers that are all made from oil or gaz).

Also, all the area required and resources for new solar panels will come from your present consumption and from the lands that are now used for agriculture.

Ruling class already authored deadly virus to keep energy usage and life level much lower and they won't stop, as they are now in desperate attempt to not being eliminated. We should help them to go ASAP where they belong - to the hell.

Nikon South Africa is promising changes after sparking controversy with its latest roster of influencers. In a country in which over 75% of the population is Black and less than 9% is white, the group of new South Africans representing the brand featured just one Black photographer.

Nikon South Africa released a video introducing its new influencers to promote the Nikon Z50 mirrorless camera in the country. The video was a teaser for a new campaign to share the influencers’ adventures and moments, and it prominently highlighted a series of white photographers on the roster. The only Black influencer, Austin Malema, appeared in the video mostly to say his name.

Actually posts with demand to add more black influencers are open racism. If white guys that are selected are better in their skill and even if it is no black inflencer at all - it is fair. And same in reverse, if in almost only white country you have only black influencers because they do better stuff and better communicate - it is also fair.

You need to provide real life improvement for black people, get them access to photo tools from the small age and so on - to have them be fairy represented among the top performance professionals. And it is hard hing to do and requires change in social system. But crowd frequently wants to perform surgery via ass hole. Much simpler is to just demant certain percentage to be added by force. But it is open shitty racism, quite opposite to the real goal of black people.

Of course imaging business now (as well as smartphones one) is hidden inside big unit to hide real situation.

But overall Sony managed to keep FF cameras sales fall within 60%, and in some countries even within 35%.

Lenses situation is worse, but 65% is not so big decrease compared to horrible panasonic L mount lenses.

Note that all companies actively cooked the books selling sometimes non existing stock to dealers (sometimes also virtual).