I'm curious about all the articles about big business urging him to stay with it. Exxon was one of the companies named.
Sure, they're going to fuel the world with pond scum (algae). One more reason not to drain the swamp, but an incentive to keep the climate ball rolling so their expenditures for all that research can produce a ROI through mandates of some kind or funding grants.
I may be wrong, but I would suspect that the outgoing CEO of EOM received a handy sum and stock options or shares as part of his parachute.