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Managing climate change risks
Society currently faces, and will continue to face, two major, global energy-related challenges. The first is to maintain and expand energy supplies to meet growing global demand. The second challenge is to address the societal and ecological risks posed by rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Managing GHG emissions and meeting growing energy demand requires action by individuals, companies, and governments. This will require an integrated set of solutions, and for ExxonMobil, this includes increasing efficiency, advancing lower-carbon energy technologies, and supporting effective national and international policies. Our efforts aim not only to reduce emissions from our operations, but also to reduce emissions by end users of energy.
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Rising greenhouse gas emissions pose significant risks to society and ecosystems.
We focus on increasing energy efficiency in the short term; implementing current proven emission-reducing technologies in the near and medium term; and developing breakthrough, game-changing technologies for the long term.
The core sustainability challenge for the energy industry is how to provide the energy that enables economic development while reducing the environmental footprint associated with energy use.
Meeting growing energy demand will require navigating a host of risks—technological, political, regulatory, social, environmental and physical.
We actively support initiatives to reduce consumer emissions from the use of our products in the transportation sector.
