corporate-climate-appendix-c-5e2d88c488a45c55.pdf

The document details the climate-related activities of various corporations, including utilities, oil and gas producers, and manufacturers. It tracks their public statements, lobbying spending, and affiliations with trade organizations and think tanks, highlighting discrepancies between public sustainability claims and political actions.

• Several companies expressed public support for climate action while simultaneously funding organizations or campaigns that oppose it. For example, ConocoPhillips joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership to advocate for cap-and-trade but later ran an online campaign encouraging employees to oppose such legislation.
• A number of companies used their comments on the EPA's Endangerment Finding to argue that the Clean Air Act (CAA) is an inappropriate tool for regulating greenhouse gases, preferring legislative solutions instead.
• Some corporations explicitly questioned the science of climate change or the reliability of the IPCC in their public statements or regulatory comments. Peabody Energy's Chairman called IPCC findings "tainted by flaws" and argued that computer-model predictions are "extremely uncertain."
• Lobbying expenditures for climate-related issues varied significantly across the studied companies, with some spending tens of millions of dollars. Exxon Mobil spent $131,632,729 from 2002–2010, and Boeing spent $107,286,000 in the same period.
• Oil and gas companies like Chesapeake Energy and Denbury Resources promoted natural gas or carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as scalable solutions to reduce emissions.
• Several companies reported physical risks from climate change in their SEC filings, including changes in weather patterns, sea level rise, and extreme weather events affecting operations.

APA

Union of Concerned Scientists (n.d.). corporate-climate-appendix-c-5e2d88c488a45c55.pdf. https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/corporate-climate-appendix-c.pdf

Chicago

Union of Concerned Scientists. corporate-climate-appendix-c-5e2d88c488a45c55.pdf. n.d. https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/corporate-climate-appendix-c.pdf.

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