"LONDON — Ten of the world’s big oil companies, mainly from Europe, on Friday jointly acknowledged their industry’s role in global climate change and said that they agreed with the United Nations’ goals of limiting global warming.

The point, in a public declaration, was to try convincing an increasingly skeptical world that the oil companies, whose fossil fuels are a big source of greenhouse gases, are serious about delivering cleaner energy and combating climate change. But the impact of that statement might be limited.

None of the biggest American oil companies took part. And the companies that were involved — including BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Aramco and Total — made no specific commitments to helping meet the climate challenge."

Stanley Reed reports for the New York Times October 16, 2015. [2]

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