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Company Response

28 Jul 2015

Author:
ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips’ response

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists claiming that ConocoPhillips and other companies engaged in decades of miscommunication" on the harmful impacts of climate change. We are disappointed that the Union of Concerned Scientists continues to misrepresent our participation in the complex, ongoing dialogue about climate change. Our position on this very important issue has been consistent and available to the public for several years in our Sustainable Development Report. http://www.conocophillips.com/sustainabledevelopment/environment/climate-change/Pages/global-climate-change.aspx...We have taken significant action that includes completing many projects that reduced the equivalent of more than one million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year since we introduced our first Climate Change Action Plan in 2008 (totaling 6.2 million metric tonnes of C02 equivalent by the end of 2014, keeping our emissions effectively flat at 26.9 million metric tonnes). In 2010, we became a co-sponsor of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change along with other major industrial companies and several US government agencies…

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