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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Geoff Dembicki

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal

Sign for an Exxon gas station in Brooklyn, New York lit up in the night sky
Atlas Network told donors in 1998 that ‘Exxon Corporation’s generous financial assistance’ had been crucial. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.

The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between the Texas-based fossil fuel company and Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks and other partners worldwide.

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