bp is committed to Backing Britain and we intend to invest up to £18 billion in the UK's energy system by 2030\. A key element of this will be in low carbon hubs where renewable energy, CCUS and hydrogen congregate to put UK industrial hubs at the forefront of technological development. Through Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT), a first-of-a-kind fully integrated gas-fired power generation and carbon capture project, bp is expected to provide flexible low carbon electricity sufficient for around 1.3 million homes - progressing the deployment of carbon capture technology in line with the UK Government's ten point plan. The UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy (BEIS) has also selected bp's H2Teesside hydrogen project as one of its shortlisted East Coast Cluster (ECC) projects. This is a world leading initiative to decarbonize the industrial heartlands of the Humber and Teesside. Through APACE Net Zero, we will explore the use of advanced technology to monitor, report and validate the emissions from industrial and consumer activity in the Tees Valley region. The aim is to develop a highly differentiated approach to identify the sources and concentration of air emissions including CO2, NOX , SOX and particulates. This advancement will facilitate decarbonisation initiatives and also help compliance with Clean Air Act, Environment Act 2021, Environmental Permitting regulation and other relevant directives.

"The aim of this feasibility study is to develop a series of tools enshrined in a workflow that enables the identification of how Lithium (Li) brines can be properly exploited for the low-cost battery market. Using remotely sensed data to support basin-scale geological understanding, hydrology and salar characterisation this will enable hydrogeological conceptual models to be created and then developed into numerical models. Thus, enabling an optimised wellfield development to abstract Li-rich brines. This workflow will be general for any salar, but will be developed in Uyuni, Bolivia (largest deposit of Li brines in the world). The workflow and tools within it will provide the basis for repeating this anywhere in the world where liquid brines exist and include those elements required for low-cost battery manufacture. The Earth's crust has a relatively high quantity of Lithium, being the 27th most abundant element on earth. Lithium is found in nature in a number of mineral forms and compounds with different lithium metal content. Although South America has the world's largest lithium sources mainly in the Lithium Triangle (Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and the recent incorporation of Peru), Australia, US, and China are also major producers. The last big player of the Latin American Lithium Triangle is Bolivia. It is estimated to possess around 50-70% of the world's Lithium resources (largely unexplored, so this figure is speculative) but does not yet produce any significant volumes of Lithium. The outcomes of this project will help Bolivia to speed up this process supporting the economic development of the country but maintaining a responsible and sustainable growth of lithium extraction."