Tag: InfluenceMap

Big Four UK Banks: Falling Short on Climate Action?

Stuart Mitchell

FinanceMap’s 2025 assessment of the Big Four UK banks—Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, and NatWest—finds that despite commitments to net zero by 2050, the four banks’ climate-related activities do not align with net-zero pathways. A lack of robust fossil fuel exclusion policies has led all four banks’ 2020–2024 financing activities to be misaligned with the IEA’s Net Zero by 2050 Scenario, and three of the four banks show higher 2020–2024 deal flows to fossil fuel companies than to green ones. During the same period, Barclays and HSBC actively advocated to…

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Climate Positive Investors Are Driving Progress on Corporate Policy Engagement Despite Political Challenges

Stuart Mitchell

A new InfluenceMap briefing identifies key trends for 2024 in corporate climate performance from the 165 Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) Benchmark focus companies. It finds that in 2024 investor pressure helped secure several improvements in real world climate policy engagement from these companies. These data behind these findings were used as part of the CA100+ 2024 Benchmark, published in October. Key Findings: In 2024 there was a 5% reduction in companies assessed as being ‘misaligned’ in their real-world climate policy engagement. This trend has been driven predominantly by improvements in…

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New Study Finds Japan’s $1Tr GX (Green Transformation) Climate Plan Misaligned with IPCC Climate Science Pathways to 1.5°C

Stuart Mitchell

A new study by InfluenceMap has found that the Japanese government’s flagship $1 Tr Green Transformation (GX) Policy is misaligned with the guidance by the global scientific authority on climate change, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The study shows that strategic influence by Japan’s heavy industry sectors, led by steel, electric utilities, and automotive industry associations, dominated corporate engagement on the policy. The research tests for alignment with “Science-Based Policy” (SBP) using benchmarks derived from IPCC’s guidance on limiting global temperature rise to the 1.5°C target.…

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Corporate Leaders Groups top InfluenceMap ranking on climate policy engagement

Stuart Mitchell

InfluenceMap has recently launched an interactive platform tracking influencing efforts of companies and industry associations on key files within the EU Green Deal’s landmark initiative of the ‘Fit for 55’ package. The Corporate Leaders Groups were awarded an “A” ranking for their ongoing policy engagement for climate action, topping the industrial association list. InfluenceMap ranked 70 companies and 30 industry associations headquartered in the EU based on how they have supported or opposed the advancement of more ambitious climate action. Their assessment and scoring methods focus on companies’ and industry associations’ publicly available…

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