New InfluenceMap research reveals that many European companies and industry associations from the chemicals, metals, energy, and utilities sectors covered by the LobbyMap platform supported circular economy provisions under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, despite resistance from some mining and a...
The 2024 update to InfluenceMap's annual analysis of corporate leaders in climate policy engagement.
This briefing contains an overview of corporate lobbying that InfluenceMap detected related to fossil fuels for Q3 2024.
This transport bulletin highlights recent insights into the advocacy of major companies and their industry associations.
A Historical Analysis of the Oil and Gas Playbook Against Renewables and Electric Vehicles
How automaker lobbying threatens the global transition to electric vehicles
This briefing analyzes automotive industry engagement on Indian climate policy for light-duty vehicles for the first time. It covers the climate policy engagement of the ten largest automakers operating in India and the automaker's primary industry association, the Society of Indian Automobile Manuf...
We are pleased to share the first edition of InfluenceMap's Transport Quarterly for the month of December 2023. This bulletin will highlight recent insights into the advocacy of major companies and their industry associations.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of December 2023.
New InfluenceMap research finds that nearly the same collective of electric utilities that fought the Clean Power Plan between 2014 and 2019 are lining up again to oppose the Biden Administration's power plant rules.
European companies backing robust, science-based regulation on CO2 emissions under the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy are also performing better on stock markets when compared with their peers that are opposing the same policy, according to analysis of InfluenceMap's policy position scores and fina...
This briefing is the second in a regular series providing an overview of corporate policy engagement on methane policy globally as captured on InfluenceMap’s Methane Platform.
Retail investors support investment funds being more involved in addressing climate change, as well as in the protection of nature and wildlife and resolving economic inequality. Public support is particularly strong for investment funds encouraging gov...
Key corporate policy engagement trends following Labor's election in May 2022
FinanceMap's assessment of Canada's Big Five Banks shows that the firms have not made significant progress on climate goals despite their Net Zero Banking Alliance membership and commitments.
This briefing analyzes advertising from the fossil fuel industry following the Biden-Harris administration's decision to pause Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export approvals.
This research details an active effort from the US oil and gas industry capitalize on the war in Ukraine to advocate for long-standing policy asks relating to the continued expansion of oil and gas. The research looks at the month following the invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. This has...
The five Big Tech companies (Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook & Microsoft) account for more than 25% of the value of the S&P500 and 20% of its Q3 2020 profits.
Business Roundtable and the US Chamber align with their most oppositional members in supporting legal action against the SEC
This briefing outlines the strategies and tactics of the Canadian oil sands group Pathways Alliance to limit climate action.
This report assesses global corporate advocacy on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the context of the energy transition. It examines the high-level positions of 21 national governments on CCS and maps out linkages between corporate and government messaging on the issue.
The report assesses the alignment of Japan's flagship $1 Tr GX Policy with “Science-Based Policy” (SBP) using benchmarks derived from IPCC's guidance on limiting global temperature rise to the 1.5°C target, and the corporate engagement with the policy.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of February 2024.
This bulletin offers insights on the climate policy engagement of major steel companies and their industry associations from the first half of 2024.
New research demonstrates that the world’s largest companies lack transparency around their biodiversity-related advocacy, while retaining membership of industry associations actively opposing critically needed policy.
New research demonstrates that industry associations representing key sectors and some of the largest companies in the world are lobbying to delay, dilute and rollback critically needed policy aimed at preventing and reversing biodiversity loss in the EU and US.
How the meat and dairy industry is influencing the EU's agenda to reduce the climate footprint of diets and livestock
This briefing highlights evidence of corporate engagement by the Japanese and Korean steel industries to weaken the ambition of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (EU CBAM).
InfluenceMap Releases 2024 List of Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Leaders
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Revealed: US airlines lobbied EU over its plan to monitor plane emissions
Fossil fuel companies pour on the pressure to weaken disclosure rules
InfluenceMap maintains the world’s leading database of corporate and industry association lobbying of climate policy around the globe. Our research and reports have been informing investors, the media and the corporate sector since 2015. InfluenceMap is a data provider to the Climate Action 100+ investor process.
InfluenceMap maintains the FinanceMap platform which is the most comprehensive publicly available metrics and analysis of the asset management sector through a climate lens, both on portfolios and corporate stewardship.
Carbon Majors is a database of historical production data from 122 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers. This data is used to quantify the direct operational emissions and emissions from the combustion of marketed products that can be attributed to these entities.
The CA100+ Investor Hub contains LobbyMap’s profiles and metrics for the 166 target companies under the Climate Action 100+ investor initiative, a list that accounts for up to 80% of corporate industrial greenhouse gas emissions globally. The platform holds additional resources covering the companies’ key industry associations, assessments of their corporate lobbying reviews, and briefings on relevant shareholder resolutions.
The Automotive Climate Tool combines InfluenceMap's leading analysis of the climate policy engagement for twelve of the world’s largest automakers, with industry-standard data from S&P Global on their forecasted zero-emission production out to 2029. It highlights how the climate strategies of the world’s largest automakers are undermining a 1.5°C-aligned transition
This platform contains rankings and profiles for 80+ of the largest financial institutions in Europe and the US, along with their industry associations. Its focus is on their engagement with sustainable finance policy. The platform contains links to InfluenceMap reports relating to sustainable finance and "live lobbying updates" – the most significant lobbying developments on sustainable finance tracked by the LobbyMap team, updated on a weekly basis.
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