Report highlights ‘profound’ lack of transparency in corporate climate lobbying
A lack of appropriate governance may explain why so many companies’ advocacy efforts are misaligned with their climate goals.
More than three quarters of listed companies share zero information about their direct or indirect climate lobbying activities and how these are governed, according to a new report by climate tech nonprofit Danu Insight.
The organisation leveraged web scraping and AI to collect information about climate lobbying from a variety of corporate sources, covering over 8,500 listed companies around the world. It found that most (78%) provide zero public disclosure about their direct or indirect (through business associations) climate policy lobbying, and 75% show no evidence of having any kind of climate lobbying governance process.
