Chevron Corp. said Monday it has an “aspiration” to reduce or offset carbon emissions from its operations to zero by 2050, as investor and public pressure mounts on oil producers to respond to climate change.

The company also for the first time set a target for reducing the intensity of the carbon emissions from the fuel and other products it makes, though it didn’t set an outright reduction goal for those products.

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