--- title: "Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan" description: "  It's a sad state of affairs when the CEO of multinational oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil calls on president-elect Donald Trump to stop withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement. As the New York Times reports, Darren Woods warned that doing so would greatly weaken our global efforts to curb carbon emissions […]" date: "2024-11-13" modified: "2024-11-13" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/exxon-mobil-trump-climate-plan" categories: - "Climate Change" - "Environment" - "Science & Energy" tags: - "donald trump" - "environment" - "exxon mobil" - "global emissions" - "oil and gas" - "paris agreement" --- # Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan ![Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.]() *\Image: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images\* It's a sad state of affairs when the CEO of multinational oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil calls on president-elect Donald Trump not to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. As the [*New York Times* reports](), oil baron Darren Woods warned that doing so would greatly weaken our global efforts to curb carbon emissions — a grim irony, given the fact that he represents [one of the biggest contributors]() to global warming in the world. Trump has threatened to [pull out of the Paris Agreement]() [yet again]() and has vowed to "[drill, baby, drill]()," while dismantling the Green New Deal, an environmental protection plan he's called the "[green new scam]()." "We need a global system for managing global emissions," Woods told the *NYT* while attending the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) in Azerbaijan, a dubious summit that claims to be about climate change but primarily appears to [facilitate business meetings among oil and gas executives](). "Trump and his administrations have talked about coming back into government and bringing common sense back into government," he added. "I think he could take the same approach in this space." Woods took aim at the government's failure to create enough incentives for oil and gas companies to transition to renewable sources of energy. "The government role is extremely important and one that they haven’t been successfully fulfilling, quite frankly," he told the *NYT*. The CEO argued that Trump's infamously unpredictable way of governing could end up harming oil and gas companies — not help them by allowing them to drill for oil in more places and loosen environmental rules. "I don’t think the stops and starts are the right thing for businesses," Woods [told the *Wall Street Journal*](). "It is extremely inefficient. It creates a lot of uncertainty." Trump's threats to dismantle environmental regulations could set the United States back significantly in the global fight against global warming, a reality even the oil industry has grasped. Despite its repeated efforts to promise an [eventual transition to green energy](), Exxon Mobil was found to be the [biggest investor-owned contributor to emissions]() in a database of 122 polluters put together by the Carbon Majors Database earlier this year. Nonetheless, the company is expected to spend around $3 billion this year on developing alternatives to fossil fuels, according to the *NYT*. But with Trump in the Oval Office, major polluters like Exxon Mobil could find themselves on an even longer leash, a worrying possibility given the precariousness of the ongoing climate crisis. Scientists have found that the prognosis is grimmer than ever before: the Earth is [racing towards a point of no return]() if climate change continues on its current trajectory — a reality that Trump seemingly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to grasp. **More on Trump and the environment:** *[As Trump Prepares to Slash Environmental Protections, 48 of the 50 States Are Facing Droughts]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()