The CEO of ExxonMobil has a very surprising message for Donald Trump: Please, oh please do not pull us out of the Paris Climate Accords again. Yes, you heard that right. Weird as it may sound, it appears that one of the top oil executives in the country is not pleased with Trump’s plans to withdraw the U.
S. from the international agreement to reduce global CO2 emissions. “I don’t think the stops and starts are the right thing for businesses,” Darren Woods, Exxon’s CEO, said during a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal.
“It is extremely inefficient. It creates a lot of uncertainty.” In a subsequent interview with Politico , Woods said very much the same thing: “I don’t think the challenge or the need to address global emissions is going to go away,” he said.
“Anything that happens in the short term would just make the longer term that much more challenging.” On the one hand, it may seem bizarre to hear the head of one of the largest oil companies in the world siding with climate activists. On the other hand, you can see why he might be tired of all the flip-flopping.
The Paris Agreement went into effect in 2015 and was largely the work of the Obama administration. The agreement sought to compel its 194 participating nations to cut their CO2 emissions by a matter of degrees over several years. The ultimate goal was to lessen the likelihood that climate change kills us all .
When he took office in 2016, Trump made it clear that he would pull the.
