Dec 12, 2023 · Climate Defiance, a youth-led group that uses direct action to protest fossil fuels, engineered the disruption of the event honoring Woods. I spoke with Ogborn, the lead architect of Friday’s action, about the strategy and future of these actions.

Dec 11, 2023 · Climate activists disrupted an event honouring Exxon CEO Darren Woods in New York City on 8 December. ...more. In the footage, the Climate Defiance members are seen holding a sign saying...

Feb 29, 2024 · As ExxonMobil pursues litigation against activist shareholders who seek to push the biggest of all Big Oil behemoths to tougher environmental standards, CEO Darren Woods knows who to blame for...

Climate Defiance disrupted the 2023 White House Correspondents Dinner, [1] an event for Exxon CEO Darren Woods, [5] and the speaking events of several powerful Democratic officials, including Tommy Beaudreau, [3] Pete Buttigieg, [6] Jennifer Granholm, [3][7] Amy Klobuchar, [8] Joe Manchin, [9] Jerome Powell, [10][11][12] and Ali Zaidi. [13] .

Feb 28, 2024 · From there, Woods defended his company’s continued focus on oil and gas (rather than renewables), as well as his view of shareholder primacy. Here’s what he said: On Exxon’s lack of solar and...

Nov 21, 2024 · Exxon Chairman and Chief Executive Darren Woods is back attending COP29 — his second-consecutive appearance at a United Nations climate summit — making the seemingly contradictory case for both the Paris Agreement and continued investment in fossil fuels.

Feb 28, 2024 · Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from Fortune that the world has “waited too long” to begin investing in a broader suite of technologies to slow planetary heating.

Dec 26, 2023 · Climate Defiance, which disrupted events featuring a string of Biden administration officials this year, and targeted Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil, in December, will consider protesting at...

Mar 6, 2024 · An interview with ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods is making waves this week. For a good portion of a nearly 45-minute conversation with Fortune CEO Alan Murray and reporter Michal Lev-Ram, Woods blamed governments and consumers in various ways for the global climate crisis, explaining that “The people who are generating those emissions need to be ...

Darren Woods dismisses carbon emission targets as a “beauty” match between companies. He is accelerating the company’s “rejection of climate proposals, challenging sponsors and rebuffing ballot measures as either micromanaging or unneeded.”