Big Oil Reality Check – Aligned in Failure

This report was written by David Tong and Kelly Trout, with additional contributions by Myriam Douo and Al Johnson-Kurts. All are with Oil Change International.

We have assessed the eight largest U.S. and European-based international oil and gas producers – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies – on their climate and sustainability pledges and plans. The ten assessment criteria are based on ambition, integrity, and people-centered transitions. These criteria represent minimum, but not necessarily sufficient, baselines for potential alignment with the Paris Agreement