ExxonMobil's European Lobby Efforts and Think Tank Funding for Climate Denial

About the Series

ExxonMobil has a long history of funding climate denial. In September 2015, it was revealed that ExxonMobil knew about the impacts of manmade climate change in the 1970s’ and ‘80s yet went on to fund numerous climate denial efforts.

This prompted the New York Attorney General to subpoena ExxonMobil to “determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business.” A similar investigation has also been launched in California.

These revelations tell us what Exxon knew. The investigations in New York and California are asking ‘what did Exxon do?’

So, while the oil giant has been getting a lot of heat in the U.S. for funding climate denial, this DeSmog UK investigation takes these questions across the Atlantic, and asks: what has ExxonMobil been up to in Europe?

In This Series

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New documents reveal that the European Commission assured ExxonMobil at the very start of negotiations on the major US-EU free trade deal that the deal would help remove obstacles to expanding foss...
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This is the third part of DeSmog UK’s series mapping Exxon’s ties to EU think tanks and lobby groups. Here we explore the various Brussels lobby groups the oil giant is a member of. Read part 1 and...
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This is the second part of DeSmog UK’s series mapping Exxon’s ties to EU think tanks and lobby groups. Here we explore what happened to Exxon’s EU think tank ties after it pledged to stop funding c...
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This is the first part of DeSmog UK’s series mapping Exxon’s ties to EU think tanks and lobby groups. Pressure is mounting on ExxonMobil to explain why the oil giant funded climate denial around t...
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ExxonMobil has spent at least £5.6m ($8.08 million) on lobbying the European Commission and in donations to European universities and organisations in 2014 according to the most recent figures avai...
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ExxonMobil has invested more than £2.36 million in 15 top UK universities over the last five years, figures show. The University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Oxford University are the ...