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Wednesday, February 03, 2021 9:58:53 PM
By: John Howell | February 3, 2021
More than 10 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the oily waves that ravaged the Gulf of Mexico are rippling down Wall Street. BP is now giving alternative energy a genuine focus. And on Tuesday, a $2.3 trillion institutional investor uprising emerged against ExxonMobil.
The Coalition for a Responsible Exxon – with a snappy acronym –fired its first salvo across Exxon’s board in a letter to leadership.
CURE is demanding a commitment to a financially competitive and environmentally sustainable future at Exxon, a press release announced.
“For too long Exxon has ignored both the desires of its key stakeholders and the financial risks and opportunities of the transition happening in energy markets toward cleaner, more sustainable forms of energy,” CURE said in its letter.
The call for change at the top arrived the same day Exxon reported the largest losses in its history as the pandemic crushed energy demand — nearly $20.1 billion for the fourth quarter. For the full year, it lost $22.4 billion.
BP lost $18.1 billion in 2020.
The letter also arrived one day after Exxon announced a new business, ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions, that will focus on carbon capture and storage to help achieve the “climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement.”
Can an oil titan be pressured? CURE’s action seems hardly symbolic – not like, say, PETA putting a few grand into SeaWorld to gain a voice at annual meetings.
As of Jan. 26, CURE claims over 135 institutional investors – banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, pension and hedge funds, REITs, others – that represent $2.27 trillion in assets.
According to CURE, its global spectrum of stakeholders (yes, the Franciscan Sister of Allegany, N.Y., are aboard) are all focused on “delivering long-term returns” involving the changing energy sector.
Past environmental catastrophes, including the Exxon Valdez (1989) and Bhopal (Union Carbide, 1984), were relatively short-term investor setbacks, according to research conveyed by Mark Hulbert in MarketWatch in 2015.
BP took a little longer to bounce back, Hulbert said. But by mid-2014, BP’s stock, including dividends, was fully recovered – four years after April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater rig exploded.
The difference for many investors today seems to be widening climate awareness, changing personal values, and respect for the needs of future generations.
In September, BP chief executive Bernard Looney announced to investors the biggest overhaul in strategy in the company’s 111-year history. Highlights include a 40% reduction in oil and gas production in the next decade and more wind and solar energy ventures.
“Our new strategy is going to transform BP into a very different company, not overnight … but fast,” Looney said.
Looney acknowledged in a Wall Street Journal story there were “a few concerns, some skepticism and even a few myths” about the overhaul.
Corporate accountability is trending upward. U.S. assets using so-called “socially responsible” strategies were $12 trillion at the start of 2018, expanding 42% to $17.1 trillion at the start of last year.
That represents a cool, hard, green 33% of total U.S. assets under professional management, according to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.
Regarding Exxon’s new initiative, Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer, touted the corporation’s “leadership in carbon capture and emissions reduction technologies.”
“ExxonMobil is committed to meeting the demand for affordable energy while reducing emissions and managing the risks of climate change,” Woods said.
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