Reputation of Oil, Gas Industry Taking Hit By Climate Campaigners, Public Opinion

摘要

A cartoon circulating on Twitter carries a warning for the oil industry. There's Joe Camel, retired tobacco spokes-animal, suave as ever in a tuxedo, cigarette dangling from his smiling snout. In his hand, a pack of smokes with a twist-an Exxon Mobil Corp. logo on the wrapper. "Big Oil: The New Big Tobacco" reads the caption. Activists have been urging investors for years to pull money out of the fossil-fuel producers blamed for much of the world's warming. Joe Camel's new role shows the movement has an even broader target: not just the industry's money, but its reputation. With envoys gathered in Paris this week for a United Nations summit on climate change, there are signs-from coal-plant closures to the death of the Keystone XL pipeline-that the effort is bearing fruit.