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Exxon thinks it can count carbon better

Exxon thinks it can count carbon better

Update: 2025-11-121
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Most oil company CEOs have turned their back on COP30, but not ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, who this year attended his third COP conference in a row.

This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi asks Woods why Exxon is backing a new carbon accounting idea, what his plan is now that the Inflation Reduction Act has been gutted, and why Exxon wanted the US to stay in the Paris Agreement. 

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Exxon thinks it can count carbon better

Exxon thinks it can count carbon better

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