The following content was created by InfluenceMap for investors, corporations and other stakeholders as objective and independent assessment of emerging disclosures from companies around their climate policy engagement. It contains guidance on best practice thus far and scores the individual disclosures from companies to date.
The Global Standard on Responsible Climate Lobbying ('Global Standard') - instigated by investors and launched in March 2022 - is the leading best practice framework for climate policy engagement disclosure. The Global Standard sets out 14 indicators covering disclosure, governance and oversight processes to ensure alignment between a company's climate policy engagement and delivering the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.
In September 2023, InfluenceMap’s methodology to assess corporate disclosures on climate policy engagement was formally updated in line with the Global Standard and stakeholder input. These assessments are directly integrated into the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark as part of the ‘Climate Policy Engagement Alignment’ assessment, under two distinct indicators:
Accuracy of Climate Policy Engagement Disclosures: An assessment of the accuracy of a company's reporting on its direct and indirect (via industry associations) climate policy engagement activities.
Robustness of Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Review & Misalignment Management Processes: An assessment of the quality and robustness of a company's process to identify, report on, and address specific cases of misalignment between its climate policy engagement activities and delivering the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.
These assessments are separate and additional to InfluenceMap’s core LobbyMap analysis of each companies’ real-world climate policy engagement activities. Ranking tables and company profiles for these latter assessments can be found here (all companies) or here (CA100+ companies only).
Use the buttons on the right hand side of the page to access InfluenceMap's full methodology for the disclosure scorecards, guidance on leading practice by companies to date, and a template for corporate disclosures on climate policy engagement.
The table below lists InfluenceMap's assessments of CA100+ companies' reporting accuracy and review processes. The table is ordered by the quality of the companies' reviews.
InfluenceMap's assessment of the accuracy of a company's reporting on its direct and indirect (via industry associations) climate policy engagement activities uses a traffic-light framework. This assessment provides the CA100+ Net Zero Benchmark's Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Indicator 2. Details of this for each company can be seen by accessing the download of the full review on the right hand column.
InfluenceMap assesses corporate policy engagement reviews against seven assessment criteria, using a traffic-light framework. A ‘Green’ scores 2 points, a ‘Yellow’ scores 1 point, and a ‘Red’ scores 0 points. This total is converted into a percentage from 0 to 100, calculated using the total number of points available (14), where 100 would indicate that a company has met all of the assessment criteria related to the review process. Following this logic, only certain scores within the 0 to 100 range are possible under this methodology. This assessment provides the CA100+ Net Zero Benchmark's Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Indicator 3.
Click on the Disclosure Scorecard links to access the latest individual company disclosure scorecards, with detailed assessments and best practice guidance. These scorecards will be updated on a rolling basis as new disclosures are made available.
NB April 2024 - This web page was edited to clarify the presentation of the metrics in the table. None of the underlying assessments, which can be found by clicking on the Scorecard links, have changed.
In 2023, InfluenceMap’s methodology to assess corporate disclosures on climate policy engagement was formally updated in line with the Global Standard and stakeholder input. Please contact engagements@influencemap.org for access to archived assessments under the previous methodology.
