This briefing contains an overview of corporate lobbying that InfluenceMap detected related to fossil fuels for Q3 2024.
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.
This briefing analyzes advertising from the fossil fuel industry following the Biden-Harris administration's decision to pause Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export approvals.
A Historical Analysis of the Oil and Gas Playbook Against Renewables and Electric Vehicles
This briefing outlines the strategies and tactics of the Canadian oil sands group Pathways Alliance to limit climate action.
This online briefing is the first of a new regular series launched by InfluenceMap, providing an overview of corporate policy engagement on methane policy globally, captured on its Methane Platform. The briefing summarizes analysis of corporate engagement on methane policies and explores the narrati...
The Carbon Majors database traces 1,421 GtCO2e of cumulative historical emissions from 1854 through 2022 to 122 industrial producers, the CO2 portion of which is equivalent to 72% of global fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions since 1751. Over 70% of these global CO2 emissions historically can be at...
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of February 2024.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of February 2024.
Analyzing fossil fuel advocacy on Australia’s Future Gas Strategy
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of January 2024.
Key corporate policy engagement trends following Labor's election in May 2022
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of December 2023.
Cross-referencing the UNFCCC-disclosed list of registered attendees against InfluenceMap’s database on corporate lobbying shows the balance in favor of companies whose policy engagement and communications are pushing for policy pathways likely to lock-in warming scenarios in excess of the internatio...
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate advocacy detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels and climate for the month of November 2023.
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.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate advocacy detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels and climate for the month of October 2023.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of September 2023.
This briefing outlines how elements of an ‘anti-ESG’ campaign by fossil fuel, financial and cross-sector industry groups have been incorporated into the current policy priorities of US House Republicans.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of August 2023.
This report maps how European energy corporations are influencing climate and energy investment policy globally. Using LNG advocacy in Europe and Africa as a case study, it demonstrates how industry's attempts to influence policy risks locking in fossil fuels across the entire value chain, from upst...
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of July 2023.
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels and methane for the month of June 2023.
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels and methane for the month of May 2023.
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels and methane for the month of April 2023.
This briefing highlights the involvement of the fossil fuel industry in the "anti-ESG" political movement in the US, from the movement's inception to the present.
InfluenceMap has assessed a 7th March joint letter sent by oil and gas industry associations advocating for fossil gas and LNG development to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on its accuracy using findings and recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of March 2023.
This briefing contains an overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to fossil fuels for the month of February 2023.
This report analyzes the climate-related policy messaging and engagement of the Canadian oil and gas industry. If finds that despite the Canadian oil and gas sector's widespread use of net zero commitments and narratives, the industry remains strategically opposed to science-based policy to deliver ...
This analysis considers a collection of strategy documents detailing the International Gas Union's (IGU) communications, advocacy, and outreach playbooks. IGU describes itself as “the spokesperson for the gas industry worldwide”. It has 150+ members including Shell, TotalEnergies, Sempra Energy, and...
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to oil, fossil gas, and methane for the month of October 2022.
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to oil, fossil gas, and methane for the months of August and September 2022.
Following up on InfluenceMap's 2019 edition of 'Big Oil's Real Agenda', this latest report compares and contrasts the public communications, business operations, and policy engagement of 5 'supermajor' oil companies: BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies. The report provides evidence of ...
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to oil, fossil gas, and methane for the month of July 2022.
This report analyzes how Japanese and South Korean industry interests are shaping Vietnam’s climate and energy policy.
An Analysis of the Energy Charter Treaty’s Potential Impact on EU Climate Goals
How Australian companies and industry associations are pushing back against ambitious reform of the Safeguard Mechanism
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...
An overview of the corporate lobbying detected by InfluenceMap related to coal, oil, fossil gas, and methane in December 2022 and January 2023.
An analysis of industry's playbook to promote fossil gas in Europe
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...
Intensive lobbying throughout 2020 from real economy sectors has extracted significant concessions from the European Commission on its EU Sustainable Finance taxonomy.
New research from InfluenceMap shows the oil and gas sector to have dominated climate-related policy battles throughout COVID-19 crisis.
This research finds that Australia’s most influential industry associations are having an overwhelmingly negative impact on climate policy, with 75% of the groups assessed taking positions against climate regulations while promoting a pro-fossil fuel agenda. This research is part of InfluenceMap’s o...
The research finds that the only sector where the Fed is consistently overweight on all three indicators (debt outstanding, equity values and employment) is the GISC Energy sector which contains oil/gas and coal value chain companies exclusively.
This analysis highlights a trend whereby companies and industry groups are engaging with investors and the media by focusing attention on top-line positive statements on climate while distracting stakeholders from the important details that conversely show patterns of opposition to science-based cli...
ExxonMobil attempts to influence the European Green Deal
The report identifies 118 climate-themed funds with an aggregate AUM of US$18Bn and examines the presence of fossil fuel reserves owned by the companies held by these funds.
An investor briefing on Japanese financial sector exposure to coal power
How the oil majors have spent $1Bn since Paris on narrative capture and lobbying on climate
The last few years has seen a significant reduction in the tax North Sea operators pay to extract oil and gas, to the point where the UK Treasury is now paying the sector £24m per year to operate. The industry has achieved this by a variety of influencing tactics aimed at multiple levels of the tax...
As BP's 2017 Energy Outlook is published, this note summarises BP's performance on climate risk disclosure and highlights climate lobbying activity.
This report tracks the links between the coal reserves, operating coal companies and shareholders who own these companies, showing roughly $185bn in shareholder value associated with 117 listed thermal coal producers/owners.
The global mining giant has just published a review of climate/energy misalignments between it and its key lobby groups - InfluenceMap fact checks this for accuracy and completeness.
The energy majors' strategy (Shell, BP and Total) leading up to Paris 2015 is to call for a price on carbon. Behind the scenes, however, all are systematically obstructing the very laws that would enable a meaningful price.
Research suggests ExxonMobil spent $27m and Shell $22m to obstruct climate legislation in 2015, with the American Petroleum Institute and two smaller trade associations spending a further $74m on behalf of the entire industry.
The clear trend is greater disclosure by the oil/gas industry of regulatory risk posed by climate policy with emphasis of a likely shift following the Paris Agreement. Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Valero Energy all imply that significant regulatory risk at the national levels is on the...
Issues surrounding climate disclosure investigations by the New York Attorney General into ExxonMobil may be pervasive in the industry.
