BP withdrew from the Global Climate Coalition. Dupont had already left. The following year, Royal Dutch Shell left. In rapid succession in the early months of 2000, Daimler Chrysler, Texaco, and General Motors announced that they too were leaving the Coalition. This accelerating exodus reflected the conflict emerging within GCC ranks between firms that were clinging to the past and those that were planning for the future.
Membership requires companies to have programs for reducing carbon emissions.
BP Amoco, for example, plans to bring its carbon emissions to 10 percent below its 1990 level by 2010, exceeding the Kyoto goal of roughly 5 percent for industrial countries. Dupont has already cut its 1990 greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent and plans to reduce them by 65 percent by 2010. With the organization that so effectively undermined U.S. leadership in Kyoto no longer a dominant player in the global climate debate, the stage is set for the United States to resume leadership of the global climate stabilization effort. I can't guess why you wanted me to know your views, but it does help me to better understand what motivates your scientific work and judgment. In any case, I doubt if espousal of this energy policy will help BP and ARCO discover a source of hydrogen somewhere.