"The money Exxon sent to Atlas Network helped finance Spanish and Chinese translations of English books denying that human-caused climate change is real; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians. One goal was to convince the developing world of the adverse effects of global climate change treaties, Atlas Network explained to its fossil fuel donor."
"Asked about this document and others, the Atlas Network spokesperson, Adam Weinberg, replied that these questions deal with memos and materials drafted by former employees from more than a quarter century ago, addressed to a corporation that was never an important donor to our organisation, and which indeed has not been a donor at all for close to two decades."
Hundreds of previously unpublished documents detail Exxon’s funding of rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America and to discourage support for UN-led climate treaties. The records include copies of cheques and years of correspondence between Exxon and Atlas Network, a US coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks. Exxon money financed Spanish and Chinese translations of books denying human-caused climate change, funded travel for American climate deniers to Latin American cities, and supported public events that connected deniers with local media and politicians. A strategy proposal framed market-oriented public policies as vital to prosperity and investor returns. Atlas Network said the materials date from more than a quarter century ago and that Exxon has not been a recent donor. Exxon did not respond to requests for comment, and a Brazilian academic noted the atmosphere has a huge historical memory regarding greenhouse gas emissions.
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