Six out of every 10 pieces of communication made by ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and TotalEnergies in 2021 positioned the companies as a positive force in tackling climate change, while less than a quarter (23 per cent) promoted oil and gas, according to the study, published on Thursday.“If your only interaction with these brands was their public communications, you wouldn’t know they are oil and gas companies,” Holder told Eco-Business.She observes that oil and gas companies now almost exclusively refer to themselves as “energy” firms, which enables them to disassociate themselves from their primarily fossil fuel businesses and be thought of in the more neutral category of “energy”.The study was based on 3,421 pieces of public communication from the oil supermajors in social media, press releases, speeches and websites in 2021.
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