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1. #FOSSIL FUEL DRILLING UNDERMINE CLIMATE PLEDGES UPDATE#
2. #FOSSIL FUEL DRILLING UNDERMINE CLIMATE PLEDGES FULL#

Shell, meanwhile, quietly held its seat on the Queensland Resources Council, a key advocate of building the world’s largest coal mine. In Australia, the two giants back the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association and the Business Council of Australia, two groups fighting to undercut the country’s contributions to the Paris climate accords. In the United States, both Shell and BP support groups such as the Alliance of Western Energy Consumers, which crusaded against Oregon’s efforts to put a price on carbon emissions, and the Texas Oil & Gas Association, a trade group in the nation’s top oil-producing state battling rules to restrict output of methane, a super-heating greenhouse gas.

#FOSSIL FUEL DRILLING UNDERMINE CLIMATE PLEDGES UPDATE#

“Our next update will assess our alignment with the 18 industry associations featured already, as well as others.”īut the findings cast a dim light over the oil behemoths’ ballyhooed new climate pledges, raising questions about how seriously they can be taken when the companies are still funding lobbying operations that undermine their new commitments. “We were one of the first companies to publish an industry associations report and we are pleased that other companies have since published reports,” she said by email. And on major issues, if our views and those of an association cannot be reconciled then we will be prepared to leave.”Ī Shell spokeswoman said its next review would “select the additional industry associations because their climate-related policies have brought them to the attention of investors and non-governmental organisations, and because they operate in regions or countries where we have significant business activities.” “If we reach an impasse, we will be transparent in publicly stating our differences. “Our approach is that where policy differences arise, we will seek to influence from within ― and this may take time,” BP said in a statement.

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But both BP and Shell refused to disclose full lists of trade associations where they have ongoing involvement. The companies said they either hoped to reform the trade groups, including the eight identified here, of which they are still part, or planned to review their membership going forward.

Reviews of leaked and publicly available documents show those groups are part of the sprawling network of state and regional trade associations that have, in at least one case, boasted about quashing the very carbon-reduction policies the oil giants publicly claim to support.

But Shell and BP ― the second- and fourth- largest oil companies by revenue last year ― are still active members of at least eight trade organisations lobbying against climate measures in the United States and Australia that were not disclosed in the public reviews, an Unearthed and HuffPost investigation has found.