ExxonMobil State Department Meeting (9/20/01)

Nine days after September 11, the State Department had a meeting scheduled with ExxonMobil to discuss the "U.S. stance" at the the next international climate negotiation meeting sceduled in December 2001. The State Department briefing states, "ExxonMobil is among the companies most actively and prominently opposed to binding approaches to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Through previous efforts with the Global Climate Coalition and its own ongoing public outreach, ExxonMobil sresses scientific uncertainty regarding human impacts on climate, and warns that Kyoto...would be unjustifiably drastic and premature."