Douglas A.

Grandt

P. O. Box 1582 El Dorado, CA 95623 November 25, 2012

Mr. Rex W. Tillerson CEO & Board Chairman Exxon Mobil Corporation 5959 Las Colinas Boulevard Irving, Texas 75039 Re: The world awaits a global leader -- you could be the one Dear Mr. Tillerson, Tomorrow, a new round of climate negotiations will get underway in Doha, Qatar (COP18). The world holds its breath waiting to see if this week will be the beginning of real agreement. The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres met with Elizabeth Kolbert (Yale Environment 360) and had a chat about what Ms. Figueres expects this week (the complete transcript of the interview is published here: http://bit.ly/360-kolbert-figueres). What struck me is the following statement made by Executive Director Figueres: ... government needs to set the course and be very, very clear about the fact that we are moving toward a low-carbon global economy. But the speed with which we do that does not depend solely on government. That also depends on the very active and responsible participation of the private sector and of civil society and hence there has to be a host of efforts that are concurrent with each other, that mutually feed on each other, in order to bring about the type of transformation that is necessary. In an independent written statement by the International Executive Director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo recently wrote the following (http://bit.ly/greenpeace-doha): Everything is connected and to address the biggest challenge humanity is facing, the effort needs to be cooperative, collaborative and comprehensive. The world needs the investor community to make smart and ethical investments. We need win-win investments that tackle global poverty and inequity at the same time as ending the threat of runaway climate change. If we are to survive, the investment community needs to divest from climate change wreaking fossil fuels and switch to safe, clean, job creating renewable energy sources. We need our leaders, business and political to stop waiting for the other to blink. We them to act on what they know and not on what they think the other is prepared to do. Somebody has to go first. Mr. Tillerson, please step up and be the one who goes first. Start retiring refineries, now! For humanity Doug Grandt