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30/05/2001 Giant Exxon-Mobil faces the threat of a worldwide boycott. I recently joined forces with Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth in the UK to launch a boycott of Exxon-Mobil. We need to establish a legal framework in which corporations report openly on their ethical, environmental and workplace policies. Until Exxon-Mobil stops its opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, abandons its call to open the Arctic National refuge for drilling and invest in renewable energy, I will continue to call on the public not to buy any Exxon-Mobil products, NOT TO PUT A TIGER IN YOUR TANK!Oil, Gas, Coal, Power, and Nuclear Corporations, are the power behind President George W Bush; together they donated more than $50 million dollars to put him in the White House. Exxon-Mobil donated more dollars to the Republican party than any other oil company to help him win the elections, more than a million dollars. ESSO has been the leading lobbyist, calling for the US government to abandon limits on carbon dioxide C02 emissions, running major advertising campaigns condemning the Kyoto protocol, and denying the lint; between burning of fossil fuels and global warming. As soon as Bush was elected it was payback time, he declared the Kyoto treaty dead and buried. The message his decision sends is "US corporations have the right to pollute the entire planet. The people and the environment don't matter". Exxon-Mobil's Chairman is pleased with President George W. Bush's decision to bury the Kyoto Protocol. He maintains that the US Government had no other option 'Kyoto was too much to soon" It took 5 years for the industrialised nations to finally agree in December 1997, to reduce emissions of the gases that cause global warming. They agreed to set targets to cut climate-changing emissions below 1990 levels by 2012. The EU accepted a target cut of 8%, the US 7% and Japan 6%. One hundred and sixty seven nations have now signed the Kyoto Protocol, and some countries would like it to be operational by June 2002. America is the largest polluter in the world with 5% of the world's population, and it discharges 25% of the world's carbon dioxide. If Bush is successful in sabotaging attempts to stop global warming, he will be condemning us all to the catastrophe of global warming. We do not have much time left. Exxon-Mobil continues to question the report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (lPCC) described as the most comprehensive study on the subject to date. The panel warned of the potential for large scale and irreversible climate changes, of devastating droughts, floods, violent storms in addition to the spread of cholera and malaria. It says that Earth's temperatures could rise up to 5.8 centigrade over the next 100 years. "The scientific consensus presented in this comprehensive report about human- induced climate change should sound the alarm bells in every national community" said Klaus Topfler, head of the UN Environment Program. People from around the world fear the consequences of global warming, if the Kyoto Protocol is not reified by the industrialised nations, our future, the future of our children and their children will be threatened and compromised. We must take control of our own destiny and make politicians accountable. We must not allow corporations to continue to dictate policies to governments as pay back for their financial contributions. If we want to take direct action over climate change — we must boycott Exxon-Mobil.
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Latest Campaign News KYOTO MARCH - Saturday 12 February 2005 In February the Kyoto Protocol finally comes into force. Join the Campaign Against Climate Change on a march in central London to mark the occassion by protesting the US' refusal to join the Protocol. Assemble at Lincoln's Inn Fields at 11.30. For more information go to www.campaign againstclimatechange.net Esso up to old tricks on Kyoto Governments from around the world met in Buenos Aires to discuss protecting the climate under the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace sent a delegation to the conference to keep an eye on the activities of Esso and other fossil fuel lobbies.more "Global warming is a conspiracy against America" As a taste of what is to come during a second Bush term Myron Ebell, an advisor to President Bush on climate issues, recently argued that global warming is a myth cooked up by the EU to 'hamper American competitiveness'... more Russia Ratifies The Russian parliament have voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which brings the treaty into force... more Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change "Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," says Sir David King, the UK governments chief scientist...more |
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