Climate Politics

Exxon CEO Pushes Back on Trump’s Anti-Climate Change Agenda

Darren Woods at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 12.Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
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The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday discouraged President-elect Donald Trump from withdrawing the US from the landmark Paris climate pact, arguing that would mean forfeiting a chance to push for “common sense” carbon-cutting policy on the world stage.

“The way you influence things is to participate, not to exit,” Darren Woods said in an interview during the UN’s COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.