Corporate 100 Campaign
As
far as President Bush is concerned, US corporations have the right to
pollute the planet. People and the environment don't matter. But
who's driving Bush?
Some of the largest US corporations, the so-called Fortune 100, who stand to make a fortune if Bush continues to fuel America's oil addiction and ignore global warming.
That's why Greenpeace is running the Corporate 100 campaign. We're focusing initially on the 5 major oil companies who helped to put George W.Bush in power and are the main drivers of the Bush administration's anti-climate policy - Exxon/Mobil, Chevron, Texaco, Conoco and Phillips.
Corporate Database
We have set up a database of the 100 largest corporations in the United States along with their positions on climate change. We'll be updating this database as we get more responses to the letter we sent them on 5 April. Of the responses we have received, a few say "we take no position on the Kyoto Protocol", but many follow ExxonMobil's lead, which says "climate change is a long-term risk that we ... take seriously", and then goes on to attack the Kyoto Protocol.
Industry Lobby Group, USCIB
Many companies claim not to have a position on the Kyoto Protocol, but at the same time are members of industry lobby groups (such as the US Council for International Business - USCIB) who are actively promoting and shaping the Bush Administration’s policy. Read more about USCIB, their letter to Bush and our response.
As for the non-oil Fortune 100 companies, in a letter to Greenpeace on 8 May, Coca-Cola Spain declared its support for the European government’s support for the Protocol. This action effectively sets Coca Cola Spain in direct opposition to Coca Cola US, which belongs to an Exxon (Esso) led business group – the US Council for International Business (USCIB) – that is in public support of Bush’s rejection of the international climate change agreement.
Take action now!
There are a number of things you can do now, including the following.
- Send
a letter to the top 5 US Big Oil companies urging them to come clean
and support the Kyoto Protocol.
- Help Expose
Ford’s Double Dealing
Among the most hypocritical of the letters we've seen is the one from the Ford Motor Company which openly states that it does not support the Kyoto Protocol.
In a greenwashing exercise on 8 May, however, Ford spent an estimated USD 200,000 on advertisements appearing in the Financial Times, USA Today and the New York Times professing its concern for climate change.
Please take a minute to send a letter today to Ford CEO Bill Ford telling him that you are not fooled by Ford's green rhetoric and asking him to support the Kyoto Protocol. Visit our site in the US for more on Ford.
- Join
the Stop Mobil campaign
US
Exxon/Mobil donated more dollars to get Bush into the White House than
any other oil company. Mobil are not investing in clean energy from
wind, wave and solar power to replace oil, coal and gas.
Go to What You Can Do for more action.