{"id":38893,"date":"2024-01-30T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38893"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:11:17","slug":"british-museum-signs-50m-funding-deal-with-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38893","title":{"rendered":"British Museum signs \u00a350m funding deal with BP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-38894\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/British_Museum_SOR-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The British Museum has struck a \u00a350m deal with energy giant BP to help fund a major renovation programme.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: Se\u00e1n O&#8217;Reilly<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year agreement was announced alongside plans to upgrade a third of the museum&#8217;s galleries and \u2018phase out\u2019 its reliance on fossil fuels. The relationship with BP dates back to 1996 and climate campaigners have long criticised the decision to to take money from an oil and gas firm\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-67766191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Museum has struck a \u00a350m deal with energy giant BP to help fund a major renovation programme. image for illustration: Se\u00e1n O&#8217;Reilly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38895,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893\/revisions\/38895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}