BP Lays Out Two Scenarios for Global Energy Markets to 2050

October 8, 2025--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In its annual long-term global energy outlook released September 25, BP Plc (London, England) analyzed two possible scenarios for how the world's energy markets could evolve over the next 25 years: a business-as-usual case, called "Current Trajectory," and a net-zero carbon world, called "Below 2°," to reflect the Paris Agreement's goal of keeping long-term global temperature gain to under 2° Celsius since the Industrial Revolution.