Oil giants: You need us on climate

• He said incumbent energy companies have the experience and expertise and capital to deliver on major projects.

The big picture: Other executives here have offered a similar take.

• "While we may show up as kind of a strange person or entity to be at the climate change table, I think we're 100% needed there," Shell USA President Gretchen Watkins said during a panel.
• "We're good at building relationships with governments and partnerships with each other. We're good at actually doing things at scale," she said.

Yes, but: Critics of the industry argue they're talking the talk more than walking the walk, noting that zero-carbon energy remains a small share of capital spending.