The company has close links to the Bush Adminstration and took adverts out in the USA calling on the new administration to rethink its support for the Kyoto climate convention. A few weeks later Bush announced that the US was leaving Kyoto. Esso has repeatedly questioned the science of climate change and despite record breaking profits of $17 billion last year it refuses to invest any money in renewable energy.

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