Ikea, H&M and Apple are included in the 27 companies globally that have achieved best practice in climate policy according to non-profit think tank InfluenceMap.
The trio join brands such as Unilever, Nestlé, Salesforce, edf and Sony.
InfluenceMap’s project director and lead on the study Kendra Haven said the 27 listed companies are the “trailblazers are in climate policy advocacy and demonstrate the overall growth in Climate Policy Engagement Leaders since 2021.”
To make the 2023 list, companies needed to meet three criteria, each of which correspond to key metrics.
Global leaders must engage positively, aligning their climate policy advocacy with science-based pathways for delivering the goals of the Paris Agreement (organisation score), and they must engage actively with those positions (engagement intensity).
Companies were also excluded from the global leaders list if they demonstrated highly negative indirect influence through industry associations with no formal disclosure of their efforts to address misalignment with those negatively engaging groups.
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“The 2023 Corporate Climate Policy Engagement leaders highlight the need for climate leadership from global companies to help align government policy with the Paris agreement goals,” Haven added.
“Without corporate leadership, governments are unlikely to undertake decisive policy interventions that are the need of the hour,” she continued.
Climate and nature solutions CEO Catherine McKenna commented: “InfluenceMap’s research shows that there is a growing cohort of companies supporting government policy to help drive their clean energy transition plans.
“But the biggest barrier to action is the fossil fuel sector.
“The research shows consistent and persistent efforts to delay ambitious government climate policies by fossil fuel companies and those who support them,” McKenna said.
