{"id":340723,"date":"2020-03-06T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340723"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:31:03","slug":"exxon-ceo-calls-big-oil-rivals-climate-goals-a-beauty-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/exxon-ceo-calls-big-oil-rivals-climate-goals-a-beauty-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Exxon CEO calls Big Oil rivals\u2019 climate goals a \u2018beauty competition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exxon Mobil Corp. dismissed long-term pledges by some of its Big Oil rivals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as nothing more than a \u201cbeauty competition&#8221; that would do little to halt climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Energy companies need to focus on global, systemic efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, rather than just replacing their own emissions-heavy assets with cleaner ones to make themselves look good, Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods said in New York on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividual companies setting targets and then selling assets to another company so that their portfolio has a different carbon intensity has not solved the problem for the world,&#8221; Woods said at Exxon\u2019s analyst day. Exxon is focused on \u201ctaking steps to solve the problem for society as a whole and not try and get into a beauty competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exxon Mobil Corp. dismissed long-term pledges by some of its Big Oil rivals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as nothing more than a \u201cbeauty competition&#8221; that would do little to halt climate change. Energy companies need to focus on global, systemic efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, rather than just replacing their own emissions-heavy assets with cleaner ones to make themselves look good, Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods said in New York on Thursday. \u201cIndividual companies setting targets and then selling assets to another company so that their portfolio has a different carbon intensity has not solved the problem for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}