Investors are rewarded oil giants like Exxon Mobil as leaders convene for a global climate summit because they did n’t embrace wind and solar. Their corporations were in decline when oil and gas companies made ambitious pledges to reduce pollution and transition to renewable energy four years ago. As the epidemic spread, need for energy was dwindling. Costs plunged. And big American oil companies were hemorrhaging cash, with loses topping$ 100 billion, according to the power consulting business Wood Mackenzie. Green energy appeared to many businesses and investors at the time to be more environmentally friendly than oil and gas. At a UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan next year, Darren Woods, Exxon Mobil’s CEO, said in an appointment with The New York Times that “investors were focused on what I did say was the prevailing narrative around it moving all to wind and solar.” ” I had a lot of pressure to get into the wind and solar organization”, he added. Mr. Woods resisted, argument that Exxon did not had experience in those regions. Instead, the business focused on more traditional-styled industries like gas and lithium recovery. For those wagers, Wall Street has given the business a reward. The company’s stock price has climbed more than 70 percent since the end of 2019, lifting its market valuation to a record of nearly$ 560 billion in October, though it has since fallen to about$ 524 billion. During the pandemic, investors pushed oil and gas companies toward green power. However, as oil and gas revenue rebound, Wall Street changed its rhythm.
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