Greens Support Boycott of Oil Companies -  2001

ASGP - Global Greens Boycott of U.S. Oil Companies . 

A resolution sponsored by the Steering Committee of the ASGP endorsing the global boycott of Exxon-Mobil, Texaco, and Chevron corporations due to their activities on global warming issues. 

Background 

The Executive Branch of the government of the United States has decided that it does not wish to go forward with the Agreement negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, the Kyoto Agreement, which provides a framework for the reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions. The United States has demonstrated its disregard for this important issue by not moving forward on standards for Carbon Dioxide emissions and by public statements on the Kyoto Agreement. 

It is reasonable to assume that the Executive Branch has been influenced in its decision by the campaign contributions by gigantic corporations in theOil Business, specifically Exxon-Mobil, Texaco, and Chevron, and the close association between President Bush and these corporations. 

At the recent Global Green Summit delegations from Green Parties around the world called upon people everywhere who are concerned out Global Warming to join a boycott of irresponsible oil companies. 

Resolution 

The Association of State Green Parties wholeheartedly endorses a boycott of the products of Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco, and will do publicity for the boycott, call on others to endorse and join the boycott, and especially help State Green Parties to coordinate their efforts around this boycott. This boycott shall continue until the United States Government takes substantial and concrete steps towards both the dramatic reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions and Global Treaties to ensure greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically lowered. The boycott against a particular member of the corporate triumvirate can be called off if that corporation publicly repudiates the policies of George W. Bush, swears off campaign contributions to politicians who support polluters, and takes concrete steps to significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.