"Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process"

"Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process.

The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between the Texas-based fossil fuel company and Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks and other partners worldwide.

The money Exxon sent to Atlas Network helped finance Spanish and Chinese translations of English books denying that human-caused climate change is real; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians.

One goal was to convince the developing world of “the adverse effects of global climate change treaties”, Atlas Network explained to its fossil fuel donor."

Geoff Dembicki reports for the Guardian November 3, 2025. [2]