US Fortune 500 Companies Public Support for the Paris Agreement Public statements, quotes, sign-on letters, advertisements and public pledges from Nov. 2015 to May 2017
• Business Backs Low Carbon USA • American Business Act on Climate Pledge • April 26 Letter to President Trump • U.S. Banks Global Climate Deal Letter • Fossil Fuel Company Support – Reporting • ExxonMobil’s CEO Darren Woods Blog Post
Of these companies – this is the breakdown of the Fortune 500 rankings: • 69 of Fortune 500 • 33 of Fortune 100 • 20 of Fortune 50
Total Global Employees: 8,595,255 Total Annual Global Revenue 2016: $3,739,026,000,000
Walmart (1) EMC (113) ExxonMobil (2) Staples (132) Apple (3) ManpowerGroup (144) Berkshire Hathaway (4) Kohl’s (145) General Motors (8) Starbucks (146) General Electric (11) Cummins (148) Verizon (13) The Hartford (152) Chevron (14) General Mills (161) Amazon (18) PG&E Corp (166) HP (20) Colgate Palmolive (174) JP Morgan Chase (23) Gap, Inc (177) Microsoft (25) BNY Mellon (179) Bank of America (26) Monsanto (189) Wells Fargo (27) NRG Energy (193) Citigroup (29) Kellogg (207) Procter & Gamble (34) VF (231) Alphabet (36) L Brands (234) Johnson & Johnson (39) Hilton Worldwide Holdings (254) PepsiCo (44) Biogen (263) United Technologies (45) ebay (300) Intel (51) Corning (313) Disney (53) United Natural Foods (335) Cisco Systems (54) Campbell Soup (337) Dow Chemical (56) Sealed Air (375) Coca Cola (62) Salesforce.com (386) Johnson Controls (70) Symantec (400) Goldman Sachs (74) Calpine (402) Morgan Stanley (78) Jetblue (406) ConocoPhillips (90) Dana Holding (428) Nike (91) Newell Brands (434) 3M (93) Avery Dennison (435) Mondelēz International (94) JLL (436) 21st Century Fox (96) Peabody Energy (458) Dupont (101) Owens Corning (480) Qualcomm (110)
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CEO Letters in Wall Street Journal and New York Times
On May 10, 2017, the CEOs of 30 major companies took out full-page advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to state that remaining in the Paris Agreement is in their best interests. Read the full text of the ads here.
Inge Thulin, 3M Company James K. Kamsickas, Dana Incorporated Michael B. Polk, Newell Brands, Inc. Oliver Bäte, Allianz SE Andrew Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company Geisha Williams, Pacific Gas & Electric Brian Moynihan, Bank of America Corp. Edward Breen, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company David Taylor, Procter & Gamble Company Zhang Yue, BROAD Group Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric Feike Sijbesma, Royal DSM Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company Lloyd C. Blankfein, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc Marc Benioff, Salesforce David W. MacLennan, Cargill Inc. William Brown, Harris Corporation Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Solvay Michael L. Corbat, Citigroup, Inc. Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson Elon Musk, Tesla James Quincey, The Coca Cola Company Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase Paul Polman, Unilever Wendell Weeks, Corning Incorporated François-Henri Pinault, Kering Richard Branson, Virgin Tom Linebarger, Cummins Inc. James Gorman, Morgan Stanley Robert A. Iger, The Walt Disney Group
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Media Coverage of Private Sector Engagement in Favor of Paris
• “See the Fortune 100 Companies Doing the Most to Stop Climate Change,” Fortune 5/22/17 • “Energy Companies Urge Trump to Remain in Paris Climate Agreement,” NPR, 5/18/17 o Shell, Exxon, Chevron, and BP have all pledged support for the Paris climate pact • “200 Large Investors Urge G7 to Keep Climate Change Promises,” Financial Times, 5/9/2017 • “Calpers, AP Funds, Allianz Press World Leaders on Climate Change,” Institutional Investor, 5/9/2017 • “Big Investors Urge Trump to Stick with Paris Climate Accord,” Reuters, 5/7/17 • “Even Exxon Mobil Wants Trump to Stick With the Paris Climate Deal,” Fortune, 3/29/17
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