Download US Fortune 500 Companies Public Support for the Paris Agreement

US Fortune 500 Companies Public Support for the Paris Agreement
Public statements, quotes, sign-on letters, advertisements and public pledges from Nov. 2015 to May 2017
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Business Backs Low Carbon USA
American Business Act on Climate Pledge
April 26 Letter to President Trump
U.S. Banks Global Climate Deal Letter
Fossil Fuel Company Support – Reporting
ExxonMobil’s CEO Darren Woods Blog Post
Of these companies – this is the breakdown of the Fortune 500 rankings:
• 69 of Fortune 500
• 33 of Fortune 100
• 20 of Fortune 50
Total Global Employees: 8,595,255
Total Annual Global Revenue 2016: $3,739,026,000,000
Walmart (1)
ExxonMobil (2)
Apple (3)
Berkshire Hathaway (4)
General Motors (8)
General Electric (11)
Verizon (13)
Chevron (14)
Amazon (18)
HP (20)
JP Morgan Chase (23)
Microsoft (25)
Bank of America (26)
Wells Fargo (27)
Citigroup (29)
Procter & Gamble (34)
Alphabet (36)
Johnson & Johnson (39)
PepsiCo (44)
United Technologies (45)
Intel (51)
Disney (53)
Cisco Systems (54)
Dow Chemical (56)
Coca Cola (62)
Johnson Controls (70)
Goldman Sachs (74)
Morgan Stanley (78)
ConocoPhillips (90)
Nike (91)
3M (93)
Mondelēz International (94)
21st Century Fox (96)
Dupont (101)
Qualcomm (110)
EMC (113)
Staples (132)
ManpowerGroup (144)
Kohl’s (145)
Starbucks (146)
Cummins (148)
The Hartford (152)
General Mills (161)
PG&E Corp (166)
Colgate Palmolive (174)
Gap, Inc (177)
BNY Mellon (179)
Monsanto (189)
NRG Energy (193)
Kellogg (207)
VF (231)
L Brands (234)
Hilton Worldwide Holdings (254)
Biogen (263)
ebay (300)
Corning (313)
United Natural Foods (335)
Campbell Soup (337)
Sealed Air (375)
Salesforce.com (386)
Symantec (400)
Calpine (402)
Jetblue (406)
Dana Holding (428)
Newell Brands (434)
Avery Dennison (435)
JLL (436)
Peabody Energy (458)
Owens Corning (480)
Data compiled by Ceres
CEO Letters in Wall Street Journal and New York Times
On May 10, 2017, the CEOs of 30 major companies took out full-page advertisements in the Wall Street
Journal and the New York Times to state that remaining in the Paris Agreement is in their best interests.
Read the full text of the ads here.
Inge Thulin, 3M Company
James K. Kamsickas, Dana Incorporated
Michael B. Polk, Newell Brands, Inc.
Oliver Bäte, Allianz SE
Andrew Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company
Geisha Williams, Pacific Gas & Electric
Brian Moynihan, Bank of America Corp.
Edward Breen, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company
David Taylor, Procter & Gamble Company
Zhang Yue, BROAD Group
Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric
Feike Sijbesma, Royal DSM
Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company
Lloyd C. Blankfein, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Marc Benioff, Salesforce
David W. MacLennan, Cargill Inc.
William Brown, Harris Corporation
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Solvay
Michael L. Corbat, Citigroup, Inc.
Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
Elon Musk, Tesla
James Quincey, The Coca Cola Company
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase
Paul Polman, Unilever
Wendell Weeks, Corning Incorporated
François-Henri Pinault, Kering
Richard Branson, Virgin
Tom Linebarger, Cummins Inc.
James Gorman, Morgan Stanley
Robert A. Iger, The Walt Disney Group
Data compiled by Ceres
Media Coverage of Private Sector Engagement in Favor of Paris
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“See the Fortune 100 Companies Doing the Most to Stop Climate Change,” Fortune 5/22/17
“Energy Companies Urge Trump to Remain in Paris Climate Agreement,” NPR, 5/18/17
o Shell, Exxon, Chevron, and BP have all pledged support for the Paris climate pact
“200 Large Investors Urge G7 to Keep Climate Change Promises,” Financial Times, 5/9/2017
“Calpers, AP Funds, Allianz Press World Leaders on Climate Change,” Institutional Investor,
5/9/2017
“Big Investors Urge Trump to Stick with Paris Climate Accord,” Reuters, 5/7/17
“Even Exxon Mobil Wants Trump to Stick With the Paris Climate Deal,” Fortune, 3/29/17
Data compiled by Ceres