InfluenceMap
InfluenceMap empowers investors, media, and NGOs with data-driven and clearly communicated analysis on critical issues related to the climate crisis. Find us at - influencemap.org
- 🚨New Data: 17 of the top 20 emitters in 2024 controlled by governments that opposed a fossil fuel phase-out at COP30 InfluenceMap’s 🆕 update to the Carbon Majors database includes the latest emissions data, painting a stark picture of rising emissions—particularly from state-controlled entities👇
- The research also finds: 🏭 State-controlled emitters dominated global emissions in 2024, contributing 57% of global fossil CO₂ emissions. ⚡ 50% of global emissions are linked to just 32 companies, showing increasing consolidation among the highest emitters. Read the coverage:
- The Carbon Majors database is a crucial tool for attribution and accountability among ghg emitters. Most recently - used to support legislation like the Climate Superfund laws in Vermont and New York and the five more proposed across the US.
- Join our next webinar 👉 ’How the EU Can Set the Aviation Industry on Track for Net Zero’ 🗓️ Thursday December 11, 1430 GMT ✈️ This webinar will cover how existing regulations fail, how industry has fought regulation & how the EU can facilitate emissions reductions 📌 influencemap.org/event/How-th...
- ⏰ 🚨 New from InfluenceMap's FinanceMap Platform ➡️ Asset Managers & Climate Lobbying Stewardship 🔎 This analysis of the world’s largest asset managers shows only a small group exhibits best practice in this field - with the majority not robustly engaging with their investee companies on the topic 🧵
- 🗝️ Key investor initiatives highlight the importance of policy engagement to address the financial risks posed by climate change. Yet, many of the world’s largest asset managers are failing to step up on this topic with only 7/39 asset managers demonstrating best practice stewardship.
- 🌍 Overall, European asset managers scored consistently higher than their peers, while North American managers saw scores decrease between 2023 and 2024. Japanese asset managers demonstrated a marked overall improvement in their climate lobbying stewardship between 2021 and 2024. Read more 👇
- 🚨New 🚨InfluenceMap research looking at corporate use of Just Transition language finds that most corporate use of the term is Vague or Misleading. While #COP30 delegates try to agree a mechanism for a just transition - corporates appear behind on meaningful engagement in their communications🧵
- Analyzing 1,500+ evidence pieces across almost 300 companies & industry groups 2022 - 2024 InfluenceMap finds: 69% of communications only name-dropped or included a broad reference to a just transition 11% used just transition language to argue for an extended role for fossil fuels 🔎👇
- 🚨📣InfluenceMap has just launched our Annual COP Narrative Tracker Keeping track of the favoured narratives from the oil and gas industry over the last year. This year - three key facts stood out from the analysis 👇🧵 cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...
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View full thread2️⃣ The oil & gas industries' most used arguments focus on emphasizing the benefits of fossil gas for 💰affordability & energy security💰, leading these types of arguments to overtake those that emphasize limitations/uncertainties of alternative solutions (its previously favoured talking point).
- 3️⃣ Almost 2/3(64.5%) of misleading narratives from the fossil fuel industry regarding the energy transition were used in 🗣️CEO messaging or direct engagement with policymakers🗣️ demonstrating how these narratives are part of a deliberate high-level strategy aimed at shaping the policy environment.
- 1️⃣ Between COP20 and COP30, oil and gas companies and their industry associations 📈increased📈 their use of misleading narratives about the energy transition by one third compared to the year before COP29.
- 🇧🇷📣What does corporate lobbying look like in Brazil right now? New analysis from InfluenceMap has found that a lack of strategic engagement on climate policies is leaving them vulnerable to vested-interest lobbying, particularly from oil & gas, and agriculture 👀👇 influencemap.org/briefing/Bra...
- 🚨📣New report from InfluenceMap 🌐 Big Tech’s Battle for the Future of Emissions Accounting🌐 How the world’s largest technology companies are using sponsored research to advance their preferred emissions accounting metrics👇 Read the full report: influencemap.org/report/Techn...
- 📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇
- ➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.
- ⏰✈️ Don’t forget to sign up tomorrow's InfluenceMap's webinar: “Have Vested Interests Captured the UN’s Aviation Agency on Climate?” 🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 10:00–11:00 EDT | 15:00–16:00 BST Sign up now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Don't miss InfluenceMap's next webinar in partnership with TERI, 10:30 AM BST tomorrow - “How the Corporate Sector Can Drive Ambitious Climate Action in India.” Hear from experts on how companies and investors can drive climate action in India 🇮🇳 Sign up now ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- "InfluenceMap found Canada’s big five banks (RBC, TD, BMO, CIBC and Scotiabank) provided US$131 bn to fossil fuel companies in 2024, on average representing 18% of their entire financing portfolios. That’s more than twice than the top US banks, & more than three times their top European peers." 👀👇
- New research 🚨👉 At least 47 extractive oil and gas companies could be liable under California’s proposed Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, according to the Carbon Majors database. At least 18 of these 47 companies are members of the American Petroleum Institute (API).
- Analysis of lobbying on these bills and laws finds that prominent fossil fuel industry associations representing many of these producers are leading opposition to this nationwide, alongside large cross-sector industry groups. Read more👇 influencemap.org/briefing/Cal...
- 🇨🇦 New Report finds Canada's Big Five banks exposed to greater transition risk than global peers because of costly domestic FF financing... 💸 In 2024 18.3% of the banks’ financing went to FF companies, more than 2x their US counterparts and 3x their European peers
- This latest report finds that the Big Five Canadian banks averaged $0.21 in green financing for every $1 in fossil fuel financing in 2024, substantially below the 0.68:1 ratio achieved by top European banks, indicating a lack of commitment to the climate transition. Read the report in full:
- New Report from InfluenceMap - A "clear case of corporate capture" at the UN Aviation body ICAO ✈️ Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14:1 at the latest ICAO environmental committee meeting ✈️ Meetings take place behind closed doors, with media banned and delegates made to sign NDAs
- InfluenceMap's latest report finds no improvement in transparency or accountability at ICAO since 2022 & that ICAO's positions on climate policy mirror industry demands. Read the report in full: influencemap.org/report/Corpo...
- New 🚨 Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks Major Expansion of US Federal Offshore Oil & Gas Analysis of new comments submitted to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) reveals how US FFs continue to use deceptive narratives around energy security and affordability to justify expansion. Read here:
- New 🚨Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks Major Expansion of US Federal Offshore Oil & Gas Analysis of new comments submitted to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) reveals how US FFs continue to use deceptive narratives around energy security and affordability to justify expansion. Read more:
- Join our next webinar - 'Transparency on Climate Lobbying: What Should Companies Do?' 🗓️ Thursday, 24 July 0900 EDT / 1400 BST To hear the case for policy engagement in reporting & transition plans & the limits of voluntary initiatives in this space. Sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/webjulyim
- InfluenceMap’s 🆕 India platform just went live - Early analysis shows that although corporate India is broadly more supportive of science-aligned policy than its global peers, this top line support is not being translated into active policy engagement to drive the energy transition. Read more 👀👇
- 🚨 🇬🇧 New from InfleunceMap: How major lobbying transparency gaps are enabling efforts to delay UK climate & energy policy. This new analysis finds that the true advocacy picture on many climate policies is often obscured by lax reporting and disclosure regulations, leading to derailment and delay 👇
- Read the coverage in @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
- Just published 📩 new analysis of the EU fund market & changes in response to new ESMA guidelines. It shows: 🔻 the number of funds with “ESG” and “Sustainable” in their names respectively decreased by 28% and 27% 🔺 but the number of funds using “Transition”-related names has grown by 10%
- 📣🎌 New research from InfluenceMap's Japan team reveals the considerable impact of utility sector lobbying on the 7th Strategic Energy Plan. The industry is found to be drawing on global fossil fuel industry narratives to oppose coal phase out. Read more here: influencemap.org/briefing/The...
- 🎉This year marks 10 years since InfluenceMap was founded. To celebrate, we’re highlighting our mission, achievements & impact over the past decade. While climate policy is facing increasingly coordinated opposition, InfluenceMap’s data and insights are key for separating rhetoric from reality 👀👇
- New InfluenceMap analysis of oil and gas lobbying reveals methane regulations are being targeted as part of a push within the EU for ‘simplification’. Read more in @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/o...
- Sign up now to attend InfluenceMap’s next webinar 🗓️ Thursday June 12, 9:15 ET/ 14:15 BST Including discussion of how existing methane regulations stack up against scientific pathways to 1.5°C & industry attempts to weaken potential policy solutions 👇 Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Last week, InfluenceMap published its latest climate assessment of the Big Four UK Banks - Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds & NatWest. 💰🛢️The research shows that all 4 financed expansionary oil & gas companies in the last five years, out of line with the IEA’s Net Zero by 2050 Scenario. 🧵
- 🌱🏭It showed that Barclays, HSBC & Lloyds consistently directed more financing to fossil fuel companies than to green companies by significant margins from 2020 to 2024 - but that NatWest bucked this trend, financing green companies over fossil fuel companies at an average ratio of 1.5 to 1.
- Comparing reported advocacy and direct advocacy for each of the banks showed: 🟢NatWest & Lloyds supported science-aligned policy privately, but were less clearly supportive in public statements 🛑 Barclays publicly reported greater support for policies than in direct communications with government
- 🚨New from InfluenceMap 🚨 Big Four UK Banks: Falling Short on Climate Action? The largest banks in the UK continue to finance expansionary oil & gas companies through a lack of robust exclusion policies, threatening their own net-zero targets 👇 Read more: influencemap.org/report/Big-F...
- 🚨 Last chance to sign up 🚨 Today, InfluenceMap is hosting a webinar focused on the #CarbonMajors Database - its latest findings and how it can be used to hold polluters accountable. ⏰ 10:15 ET/ 15:15 BST Today Sign up to attend (or to receive a recording) here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- This thursday, our Executive Director Dylan Tanner will be speaking at The Financial Times' Climate & Impact Summit. Talking about 'The Rising Cost of Technology—Balancing Innovation, Equity, and Climate Action' There's still time to sign up 👇 #FTClimateImpact climateandimpact.live.ft.com/home
- Our latest research reveals a huge shift in large EU companies supporting science-aligned climate policy over the last 5 years. 📈Companies with science-aligned advocacy is on the up: 3% ➡️ 23% 📉Companies with misaligned advocacy has dropped: 34% ➡️ 13% Read the briefing: tinyurl.com/IMEUCP
- NEW DATA: 23% of large EU companies now advocate in support of climate policy in the EU, up from 3% in 2019. Our latest briefing shows that industry lobbyists pushing against further climate progress are unrepresentative of wider business sentiment. ➡️👀 influencemap.org/briefing/Eur...
- “Those vocally organising to oppose the energy transition achieve outsized importance across public debate. However... there is a larger, quieter majority that are supportive of decarbonisation and driving progress through climate policy.” - InfluenceMap EU Program Manager, Venetia Roxburgh 👇👇
- There's still time to sign up to tomorrow's webinar "Climate Policy & Competitiveness in Europe" Bringing together experts & business insiders to unpick the EU's most discussed narrative - & share our latest findings on trends in positive advocacy. Sign up here 🇪🇺 influencemap.org/event/Drivin...
- Join our next webinar ➡️ Climate Policy & Competitiveness in Europe. Wednesday May 14, 3:15pm CEST 🇪🇺💼 Featuring a breakdown of our latest research on business sentiment on climate in the EU, and industry insights on advocacy & the bloc's climate policy agenda. influencemap.org/event/Drivin...
- Join our next webinar: 'How Companies Can Support Building Decarbonization in the US' this Thursday May 8, 11:00 EDT Bringing together our analysts & @advancedenergyunited.org's @sarahsteinberg.bsky.social to discuss FF narratives and the electrification build out👇 influencemap.org/event/How-Co...
- New this week 👀🦘🏭 Analysis of corporate Australia shows fossil fuel companies are increasingly outliers in their engagement on climate & energy policy 🟢Positive leaders include Fortescue & Smart Energy Council 🔴While laggards include Inpex, Chevron & ExxonMobil tinyurl.com/FMIAIM2
