InfluenceMap uses data-driven analysis to understand how the corporate sector influences climate policy. It defines “policy engagement” as efforts to inform or influence government policy. This definition follows the 2013 Guide for Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This report outlines various corporate activities, such as advertising, social media, public relations, research sponsorship, lobbying, campaign funding, and participation in policy advisory committees, aimed at influencing climate policy. These activities are typically managed by a company's regulatory affairs department but may also involve public relations, communications, and marketing teams. InfluenceMap tracks the results of these activities as they relate to climate policy and regulations, when publicly available. As of 2025, InfluenceMap has found evidence of all the forms of engagement listed in the 2013 UN Guide for Responsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy in India.
The LobbyMap analysis is focused on an organization's comments on, interactions with, and attempts to influence policy and legislation. We do not consider a company’s internal strategy, activities, or performance on climate change-related issues, such as CO2 emissions, use of various energy forms, or business activities, if these have no direct relevance to policy and legislation forming. There are numerous other research streams that deal with corporate performance on climate, and we do not wish to widen our remit where adequate coverage exists.
To ensure objectivity, LobbyMap’s scoring process follows strict protocols that compare each example of corporate climate policy engagement to external standards, a method known as "benchmarking." Rather than unilaterally determine what “good” climate policy is, InfluenceMap draws it benchmarks from external and authoritative sources. These benchmarks reflect key processes that underpin the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s efforts to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement. There are two main types of benchmark: science-based policy benchmarks (drawn from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s analysis) and government policy benchmarks (drawn from the proposals of government bodies mandated to deliver a country’s Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement). Further details can be found here.
The scoring process determines the level of support or opposition a company or industry association has shown on a particular climate policy or policy-related issue in the evidence provided. This relies on a systematized process of analysis that codes each evidence piece as: “Strongly supporting”; “Supporting”; “No position/Mixed position”; “Not supporting”; or “Opposing.” These codes correspond to a numerical five-point scale between +2 and -2. The five-point scale enables a more nuanced analysis of the gray areas within corporate positioning on climate policy. Thus, the LobbyMap analysis can capture the full range of climate policy positioning, from pushing for greater ambition and constructive critique, to highly conditioned or limited support, to outright opposition.
InfluenceMap searches for new evidence on companies and industry associations on a weekly basis. When new evidence is found, it is added to the entity's profile. InfluenceMap uses a weighting system when calculating the entities' scores, which weights the most recent evidence pieces more heavily, with older evidence pieces gradually having less impact on the entity's score. InfluenceMap retains older pieces in the system, however, for the historical record. On the “Companies” and “Industry Associations” tabs, entities’ names will link to distinct profiles for that entity: these profiles may contain evidence across a broad range of climate-related policies from the last 5+ years, with the most recent evidence having the greatest impact on its score.
When scoring climate policy engagement, InfluenceMap looks for evidence of advocacy in every region in which that entity operates. The evidence InfluenceMap has collected and scored for an Brazilian company that operates globally would come from its climate policy engagement both in and outside of Brazil.
As such, the Organization Scores and Engagement Intensities calculated for each of the entities in this research reflects InfluenceMap's analysis of their climate policy engagement both in and outside of Brazil. Similarly, a company's Relationship Score is a measure of its indirect climate policy influence through all of its industry association memberships globally.
The Brazil Platform hosts a wide range of companies that are headquartered in Brazil. This list will be progressively expanded to offer an increasingly complete analysis of the corporate landscape in the country. Brazil-based companies are added to InfluenceMap’s total universe of over 1000 companies based on a number of factors, including the Forbes 2000 and S&P 100 company rankings.
