Editing Global Climate Coalition (section)

== Dissolution ==
After US President George W. Bush withdrew the US from the Kyoto process in 2001, GCC disbanded.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |title=Oil industry targets EU climate policy |first=David |last=Adam |date=December 7, 2005 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/dec/08/greenpolitics.europeanunion |access-date=February 8, 2016 |quote=During the 1990s US oil companies and other corporations funded a group called the Global Climate Coalition, which emphasised uncertainties in climate science and disputed the need to take action. It was disbanded when President Bush pulled the US out of the Kyoto process. |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610023647/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/dec/08/greenpolitics.europeanunion |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|May|2005}}: The GCC was "deactivated" in 2001, once President Bush made it clear he intended to reject the Kyoto protocol.</ref> Absent the participation of the US, the effectiveness of the Kyoto process was limited.<ref>{{harvnb|Levy|2001}}: Without the participation of the United States, which accounts for nearly one-quarter of global emissions, the Kyoto Protocol is meaningless.</ref> GCC said on its website that its mission had been successfully achieved, writing "At this point, both Congress and the Administration agree that the U.S. should not accept the mandatory cuts in emissions required by the protocol."<ref name="globalclimate_org" /> Networks of well-funded [[fossil fuels lobby | industry lobbyists]] and other [[climate change denial]] groups continue its work.