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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

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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
How are efforts to make polluters pay progressing in 2026? In our next webinar InfluenceMap and leading experts will explore efforts to hold the world’s largest corporate polluters accountable. 🗓️ Wednesday, April 15, 1300 BST/ 0800 EDT Sign up here: influencemap.org/event/Carbon...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨NEW: Our latest report shows how a cross-border network of fossil fuel companies & industry associations in Japan & Australia is exerting influence on government LNG policy, prolonging the use of fossil gas across the region. Read more: influencemap.org/briefing/LNG...
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Corporate Japan’s Role in Promoting Australian Fossil Fuels
New InfluenceMap analysis explores how a network of fossil fuel companies and industry associations across Japan and Australia is working to influence government policy on the role of liquefied natura...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New report out from @influencemap.bsky.social shows that an increasingly shrinking number of large fossil fuel producers generate a majority of global CO2 emissions insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...
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Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies - Inside Climate News
As fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise to record levels, a new analysis shows that a majority of these emissions can be traced back to a shrinking number of large corporate ent...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows - Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account @influencemap.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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:
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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨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👇
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Carbon Majors: 2024 Data Update
A new briefing analyzing the latest emissions data from the Carbon Majors database.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🌍 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 👇
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Many managers 'inactive or inconsistent' on climate lobbying stewardship, finds FinanceMap
Assessment also finds investors mostly focused on disclosure rather than lobbying alignment with 1.5C.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🗝️ 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.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
⏰ 🚨 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 🧵
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The State of Asset Manager Stewardship on Climate Lobbying
FinanceMap’s assessment of the world’s largest asset managers finds that only a small group of leading firms is conducting robust stewardship of investee companies’ climate lobbying activities.
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Fossil Free Parliament @mp-fossilfree.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣 Tonight! Join us and this brill panel to learn about the damage caused by oily lobbying and how we can overpower its influence to shape climate & energy policy for public good! 🎟️ bit.ly/powered-poll... 🌟 @graceblakeley.substack.com @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social @influencemap.bsky.social
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Powered by Polluters? Mobilising against the fossil fuel lobby
I've just signed up to attend the Fossil Free Parliament campaign's online event: "Powered by Polluters? Mobilising against the fossil fuel lobby". The campaign has just revealed that the Labour gov...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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 🔎👇
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Current Corporate Communications Around Just Transition Risk Muddying the Conversation
Initial findings from new InfluenceMap research indicate that corporate communications around the term “just transition” are generally misaligned with international framework definitions, suggesting t...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨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🧵
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
2️⃣ 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).
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🚨📣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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Misinformation Tracker
An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🇧🇷📣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...
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Climate-Related Corporate Policy Engagement in Brazil
This briefing presents InfluenceMap’s initial analysis of how companies in Brazil are engaging with climate policy.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🚨📣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...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📢 🚨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 👇
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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Many oil and gas companies advocating for #CCS in UK have simultaneously raised issues with the technical feasibility and commercial viability of CCS in other countries when faced with regulation" Report by @influencemap.bsky.social #climatecrisis influencemap.org/report/The-U...
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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
➕🚗🏭 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.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📢 🚨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 👇
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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
⏰✈️ 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...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How the Corporate Sector Can Drive Ambitious Climate Action in India. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In this webinar, InfluenceMap and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)—joined by speakers from an Indian asset manager and the World Bank—will explore the corporate climate policy engagement land...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"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." 👀👇
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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...
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California Superfund Legislation: Opposition by Major Industry Groups
New InfluenceMap analysis shows how powerful industry associations are strategically opposing state Climate Superfund bills and laws, including in California, that aim to recoup the costs of climate c...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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).
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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:
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Canada’s Big Five Banks: Fueling Fossil Risk?
FinanceMap’s 2025 assessment of the Canadian Big Five banks’ 2020–2024 lending and underwriting activities finds that the banks show persistent high exposure to the fossil fuel sector, particularly hi...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🇨🇦 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
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry - Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, @influencemap.bsky.social thinktank says #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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...
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Corporate Capture and the UN International Civil Aviation Organization
New research highlights the limited transparency practices and significant opportunities for industry engagement with climate negotiations at the UN agency for aviation, the International Civil Aviati...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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
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Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry
Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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:
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Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks Major Expansion of US Federal Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing Program
In April 2025, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) initiated the preparation of the 11th National Five-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the Outer Continental Shelf (...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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:
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Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks Major Expansion of US Federal Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing Program
In April 2025, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) initiated the preparation of the 11th National Five-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the Outer Continental Shelf (...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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 👀👇
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InfluenceMap's India Platform
InfluenceMap's initial analysis of 20 of India's most climate significant companies and eight of India’s most influential industry associations revealed a clear opportunity for corporate India to step...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Read the coverage in @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
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Weak UK laws let fossil fuel giants sway climate policies
Oil and gas firms were able to water down or change Conservative policies without scrutiny, new report finds
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 🇬🇧 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 👇
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Climate and Energy Lobbying in the UK
**InfluenceMap’s analysis indicates that there is a major transparency gap between the climate lobbying taking place in the UK, and that which is disclosed by companies and the Government.**
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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%
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FinanceMap Newsletter
EU Fund Names Shift After Implementation of Climate Criteria
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📣🎌 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...
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The Power Behind the Plan: Japan’s Energy and Climate Policy
Assessing Electric Power Industry Influence on the 7th Strategic Energy Plan and 1.5°C Pathways
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🎉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 👀👇
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Impact
An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Methane a potent greenhouse gas but .... Oil and Gas Lobby Escalates Global Campaign Against Methane Regulations via @influencemap.bsky.social #climatecrisis influencemap.org/briefing/Met...
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Methane Bulletin
This online briefing is the fourth in InfluenceMap’s regular series expanding on recent corporate engagement with global methane policy captured on the [https://methane.influencemap.org/ Methane Platf...
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Stella Levantesi @stellalevantesi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🧵 New research highlights how oil and gas companies and lobby groups across the EU and US used a range of tactics aimed at weakening the EU’s regulation on methane. My latest @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/o...
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Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy, Research Finds
The fossil fuel industry is ramping up efforts to weaken a key EU policy aimed at tackling the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new report by research group InfluenceMap. Published today,...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
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Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy, Research Finds
The fossil fuel industry is ramping up efforts to weaken a key EU policy aimed at tackling the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new report by research group InfluenceMap. Published today,...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🌱🏭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.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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. 🧵
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Big Four UK Banks: Falling Short on Climate Action?
FinanceMap’s assessment of the UK's largest banks finds that their climate-related activities are not in line with their commitments to net zero by 2050.
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