BIANCA JAGGER TO LEAD CAMPAIGN AGAINST ESSO

May 8, 2001May 8, 2001, 11:00 PM GMT+1

Bianca Jagger has teamed up with Body Shop founder and environmentalist Anita Roddick in a protest campaign against oil giant Esso. The 56-year-old former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, is urging drivers to boycott Esso in an attempt to bring pressure to bear on the oil giant to change its stance on global warming.

“This is a way to tell Esso that it’s not right for them to be claiming that there’s no connection between CO2 emissions and climate change,” she said, speaking in London.

For its part, the international petroleum company says the 1997 Kyoto agreement, from which the US withdrew, would not result in the reduction of emissions aimed for and could lead to significant rises in costs for developed nations.

Esso, which contributed over a million dollars to President George Bush’s election campaign, responded that a drivers’ boycott will hurt the smaller petrol station owners and be “counterproductive”.

Bianca's call for a boycott of Esso is intended to bring pressure to bear on the US oil giant to change its stance on global warming

"This is a way to tell Esso that it's not right for them to clalim there's no connection between CO2 emissions and climate change," says Mick Jagger's former wife

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