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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson

US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

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ExxonMobil ‘clearly wants to prevent shareholders using their rights’, the activist investor Follow This said. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP files/AFP/Getty Images

The US oil company ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit to block a vote on a climate resolution brought by a green activist, in move that will be watched closely by fossil fuel companies worldwide.

The company hopes to stop investors voting on a motion put forward by Follow This, a Dutch green activist investor group, which called for Exxon to accelerate its attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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