Jon Birger Skjaerseth is Senior Research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. Tora Skodvin is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Oslo

1. Introduction
2. Analytical framework
3. The climate strategies of the oil industry
4. The corporate actor model
5. Domestic political context
6.The international regime model
7. Concluding remarks

Presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil.