Esso is the UK brand name of the ExxonMobil corporation. ExxonMobil fund multimillion dollar propaganda organisations to rubbish the case for action to tackle climate change.

ExxonMobil has run advertising campaigns in the US press condemning the Kyoto Protocol (the global treaty to cut greenhouse gases which cause climate change) and lobbied President Bush to pull out of the United Nations climate negotiations.

The Stop Esso Campaign was launched in May 2001, after President George Bush announced he was pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, the only international agreement on action to tackle climate change.

Stop Esso is a coalition of the environmental groups Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and People & Planet (student campaign network).

To find out more visit www.stopesso.com.