Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures

Photo caption: Darren Woods, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, last year. Photo credit: Patrick T Fallon / AFP / Getty Images. Article by Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman. The Guardian – March 4, 2024.

The world is off track to meet its climate goals and the public is to blame, Darren Woods, chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil, has claimed – prompting a backlash from climate experts. As the world’s largest investor-owned oil company, Exxon is among the top contributors to global planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. But in an interview, published on Tuesday, Woods argued that big oil is not primarily responsible for the climate crisis. […]

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