From: Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.

com
Subject: I hope you resolve and act to combat climate change
Date: June 12, 2017 at 6:54 PM
To: Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com, Suzanne M. McCarron Suzanne.M.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com
Cc: William (Bill) M. Colton William.M.Colton@ExxonMobil.com, Jeffrey J. Woodbury jeff.j.woodburv@exxonmobil.com,
Susan K. Avery, PhD savery@whoi.edu, Max Schulz max.schulz@exxonmobil.com

Dear Darren and Suzanne,

You have stated publicly that you support the UNFCCC COP process, although, to my knowledge, you have not
specifically acknowledged the 195-nations aspiration to keep average global temperature less than 1.5C over pre-
industrial.

In response to the presidents stated intention to pull out of the COP Paris accord, U.S. local and regional leaders in
towns, cities and states as well as individuals from businesses, industry and civil society are uniting behind Michael
Bloombergs Americas Pledge (Bit.ly/USPledge) which follows my message (below)

I hope you can see fit to affirm or refute what the rest of the world is uniting around once and for all.

I hope you see the wisdom of accepting and moving forward to quickly abandon hydrocarbon fuels..

Millions of people of conscience hope you will get onboard and act constructively for all of humanity.

Please dont mince words or equivocate. Be clear as to your intentions. Please, no more obfuscation or subterfuge.

Sincerely yours,
Doug Grandt

LETTER OF MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG TO UNITED NATIONS

SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTNIO GUTERRES & EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY OF THE UN FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE PATRICIA ESPINOSA
Dear Secretary-General Guterres and Executive Secretary Espinosa,
I am submitting the attached statement from U.S. subnational and non-state
actors to affirm and demonstrate Americans collective commitment to the Paris
Agreement and to supporting climate action to meet the nationally determined
contribution made by the United States under that accord.
The bulk of the decisions which drive U.S. climate action in the aggregate are
made by cities, states, businesses, and civil society. The federal role, ideally, is to
coordinate and support those efforts. In the absence of a supportive federal
coordinate and support those efforts. In the absence of a supportive federal
coordinating role, these actors will more closely coordinate their own
decarbonization actions. Collectively, they will redouble their efforts to ensure
that the U.S. achieves the carbon emissions reductions it pledged under the Paris
Agreement.
Since 2007, when economy-wide emissions peaked, the United States has been
reducing its emissions at a rate which, if sustained through 2025, would achieve
almost the full amount of our Paris commitment. That rate of progress, which
has been driven not by Washington policies but by actions taken by cities, states,
businesses, and civil society, has been accelerating for the past three years. We do
not intend to slow down. Indeed, we are confident that emissions reductions in
the United States will accelerate over the coming years as a result of the growing
ambition for climate action by cities, states, businesses, and others. These groups
recognize not just the urgency of the climate change threat, but the enormous
economic opportunity presented by climate change action.
In my capacity as the United Nations Secretary-Generals Special Envoy for Cities
and Climate Change, I plan to work with U.S. subnational and non-state actors
over the coming months to follow-up on this submission with a more specific
quantification of these aggregate actions. This quantification, which will
constitute Americas Pledge to the world, will reflect our collective resolve to
combat climate change and fulfill our responsibility to help lead the world in
reducing emissions. And, as the Global Covenant of Mayors has already done for
its activities, I will support the necessary initiatives to make the American
contribution to the Paris Agreement transparent and accountable.
It is my hope that the UNFCCC, on behalf of the Parties to the Paris Agreement,
will accept and acknowledge Americas Pledge as a parallel submission alongside
any future submission provided to you by the current executive branch of the
U.S. federal government. That branch can, and will, speak to its own willingness
to move forward on climate action in the United States. It cannot, however,
determine the pace of progress achieved by U.S. cities, states, the private sector,
and civil society. That freedom to lead is part-and-parcel of our federal system
and in combatting climate change, we will capitalize on it to the fullest extent.

https://www.bloomberg.org/program/environment/americas-pledge/

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