InfluenceMap
Think Tanks
London, England 9,351 followers
An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis
About us
InfluenceMap is a leading global think tank working with investors, corporations, policy makers, the media, and campaigners with data-driven analysis on the climate crisis. We generate content to hold the corporate and financial sectors accountable on climate change and also drive ambition. Key platforms: LobbyMap.org and FinanceMap.org. We have 60 dedicated professionals in our HQ in London and offices in New York, Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra. Joining InfluenceMap represents a great opportunity to be part of a friendly and dynamic team, work with our global network of partners in the finance, media and campaigning worlds and help develop our cutting-edge content which is helping shape the agenda on climate change and nature.
- Website
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http://influencemap.org
External link for InfluenceMap
- Industry
- Think Tanks
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- climate change, research, non profit, corporate lobbying, sustainable finance, climate finance, ESG, think tank, Japan, and Korea
Locations
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Primary
1 Long Lane
London, England SE1 4PG, GB
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1-21-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, Tokyo 150-0043, JP
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New York, New York, US
Employees at InfluenceMap
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Dan Abbasi
Principal at Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC
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Helen Hurst
Technical Director, InfluenceMap
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Susheela Peres da Costa
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Sheila Bennett
Co-creating scalable operations with founders at a 'what’s next' point in their business | Business + Operations Consulting | Done-for-You Fractional…
Updates
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🛩 How US Airlines are attempting to Influence EU Climate Policy 🛩 Tomorrow marks the final vote on the non-CO2 monitoring, reporting and verification framework in the European Commission. This framework intends to track climate warming effects from aviation; which flights are included under the framework has been a key debate within the aviation industry and will be determined tomorrow. Documents obtained by InfluenceMap, and outlined in this evening’s article in The Guardian, reveal Airlines for America (A4A)'s opposition to the framework’s application to long-haul flights in direct meetings with the EU Commission. The group instead urges that the measure only applies to flights occurring within the EU. In contrast, easyjet, Ryanair, and Wizz Air urged the EU Commission to include long-haul flights, which likely contribute the majority of non-CO2 warming effects, asserting their omission breaches EU law. Lucca Ewbank - Transport Lead at InfluenceMap said: “Much of A4A’s lobbying against the mandatory reporting of aviation non-CO2 emissions is flying under the radar. We know that non-CO2 emissions may account for up to two-thirds of the climate impacts of flying. And yet US airlines are trying to dodge accountability for the extra climate warming long-haul flights may cause, and have pushed for the rule to only apply to intra-European flights. This stance is in keeping with the continuous attempts InfluenceMap has observed from the US airline industry to drastically weaken EU climate policy. A4A is not alone in its obstruction. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has also pushed back against proposed monitoring of long-haul flights. Both associations paradoxically use the argument of scientific uncertainty to oppose a policy designed to reduce uncertainty. However, such opposition is not unanimous within the aviation industry. There is a growing divide between laggard international aviation associations and more supportive EU low-cost carriers. As easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air push legal arguments for the inclusion of long-haul flights, and ensure the real-world impact of transatlantic flights are not hidden, the split within the industry widens.” Read the article in full here: https://lnkd.in/g57W73p2 Lucca Ewbank Ben Youriev Ed Collins Dylan Tanner Kitty Hatchley Ajit Niranjan
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Still time to sign up to join InfluenceMap ✨ tomorrow ✨ for the first in a new series of webinars exploring Corporate Climate Policy Engagement and our methodology for scoring company alignment with science based benchmarks. https://lnkd.in/eKsBtv8V
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📢 🚨 New Research: How the US Gas Industry is Promoting LNG on Social Media Our new analysis released today reveals a surge in spending on social media ads from the fossil fuel industry in response to Biden’s LNG export pause. Mohammed Nasif, US oil and gas analyst said: “The surge in online advertising following the LNG pause underscores how the fossil fuel industry is leveraging social media to spread misleading narratives on fossil gas. These ads, which promote false claims about LNG's environmental benefits, are distorting the public conversation and exemplifying the deceptive tactics that UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned in his call for advertisers to break ties with fossil fuel companies.” So what does the research show? 🚢This work analyses 11 industry associations - representing over 65% of the US LNG export capacity - and identified a surge in ad spending on Meta social media platforms from The American Petroleum Institute (API), the American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC), and the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) following the Biden administration’s announcement to pause LNG export licence approvals. Further analysis revealed that the US Chamber of Commerce and PAGE Coalition also launched social media ad campaigns promoting LNG. 💵 These five groups collectively spent $140k+ on 100+ ads promoting US LNG, reaching 8.5M+ impressions. ❌No LNG-specific ads were detected in the previous 6 months, suggesting this was a coordinated effort post-pause to influence public perception. 🗳️Many of these ads appeared in key election states such as California, Florida, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. 📄The work identified two key narratives repeated in these ads, both of which InfluenceMap assess as inaccurate when evaluated against science based recommendations: 1. That LNG is promoted as a climate solution 2. That it is an essential tool for maintaining domestic and geopolitical security ✍️ API, AXPC, TXOGA and the US Chamber also opposed the LNG pause by jointly signing a letter to Secretary Granholm in March. This unified response highlights the industry’s mobilization against recent regulatory changes. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/etCf_-4V Mohammed Nasif Caroline Heneghan Dylan Tanner Ed Collins Kitty Hatchley Kendra Haven
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Join InfluenceMap's LobbyMap Director Ed Collins for the first in a new series of webinars exploring corporate climate policy engagement and our methodology for scoring company alignment with science based benchmarks. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eKsBtv8V Dylan Tanner Caroline Heneghan Kitty Hatchley
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📣 💻 Advancing AI Strategies to Combat Climate Disinformation : A New Milestone We’re hugely excited to share that InfluenceMap’s Director Dylan Tanner and AI lead Harri Rowlands have partnered with Christopher Manning and Gaku Morio of Stanford University to publish a new paper, which has been presented at the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference this week. "Predicting Narratives of Climate Obstruction in Social Media Ads" In this paper, they explore how social media ads are being used to disseminate climate obstruction narratives—akin to strategies employed by the tobacco industry - and using natural language processing (NLP) models have developed a tool to classify these narratives effectively, even in data-constrained scenarios. This is a brilliant step on the road to using NLP models and other programming tools to further increase our capacity for identifying and challenging the use of climate disinformation around the world. 📖 Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/ep5mXmSa 🖥 Visit the project website: https://lnkd.in/e_qEvhKD #NLP #ClimateChange #SocialMedia #MachineLearning #ACL2024 #AI
Predicting Narratives of Climate Obstruction in Social Media Advertising
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Huge thanks to GreenFin 24 for giving us the opportunity to summarize what we do - and how we drive change - in just one minute. It’s the kind of challenge that really focuses the mind, and Mohammed Nasif was more than up to the task. Watch the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/ewmCsRuf If you’re interested in our analysis of the US Chamber of Commerce’s climate policy engagement, and how it continues to be misaligned with its members - take a look at our latest briefing here: https://lnkd.in/gpDJXfnc Kendra Haven Ed Collins Dylan Tanner Grant Harrison Julia Vann Kitty Hatchley
Game-changing ideas from bold thinkers and leaders, one minute at a time = Big Little Talks at GreenFin 24: https://buff.ly/3SvbDjL Speakers: 🎤 Delilah Rothenberg Rothernberg, Co-founder & Executive Director, The Predistribution Initiative 🎤 Mohammed Nasif, Analyst, Climate Change, InfluenceMap — #GreenFin24 #sustainablefinance #BigLittleTalks
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📢 Our latest briefing on the US Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable is now live. Our research finds that industry associations the US Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable are aligning with their most regressive members in taking legal action against the SEC's climate disclosure rule. The research shows that members of these powerful industry groups have diverse views on regulated climate disclosure. However, yet again, these associations are taking the 'lowest common denominator' position. Also in the briefing: 🚩 The US Chamber's multi-pronged approach to opposing the SEC rule, including 19 meetings with SEC officials, 9 comment letters, and attempts to shape wider public opinion through research and webinars 🚩 The US Chamber's submission of a joint brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR). The NCPPR has a history of climate denial, and in 2023 their general council wrote “the decarbonization of the world, or even western economies just isn’t going to happen. Probably ever. And everything will be fine”. This despite the fact that we know that ~94% of the US Chamber members we track have recognized the science of climate change. Read the full briefing here: https://lnkd.in/gpDJXfnc Rebecca Vaughan Ed Collins Cleo Rank Dylan Tanner Kitty Hatchley
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💥 InfluenceMap recently released a new analysis of 50 years of oil and gas lobbying against the energy transition. It shows that some of the world’s most powerful oil and gas associations - The American Petroleum Institute (API), Fuels Europe and Fuels Industry UK - have been using the same playbook of narratives to delay the global energy transition since as early as 1967. In May this year, the US Budget Committee held a hearing entitled 'Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid, Accountability for Climate Change'. This showed more clearly than ever that oil and gas companies have known about the negative impacts of their industry on the climate for the last 50 years. This report adds a detailed analysis of the narratives that were developed - as early as the 1960s - to safeguard the industry, and how entrenched they have become in the pro-fossil fuel playbook. The three key narratives identified are: 🛢️Affordability and Energy Security 🛢️Policy Neutrality 🛢️Solution Skepticism The report author Tom Holen reflected on the research this week for Social Europe “By following this playbook, the oil-and-gas industry associations have sown doubt among policy-makers, over the viability of solutions and the need for zero-carbon technologies, while stoking fear about the implications of the energy transition from fossil fuels. Meanwhile, their individual corporate members, particularly in Europe, have been able publicly to support policy on technologies such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and EVs while simultaneously advocating expansion of fossil fuels behind the scenes, funding these associations to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. This corporate ‘doublespeak’ enables the fossil-fuel lobby to undermine climate progress." "We must also ensure policy-makers are vigilant and informed, able to identify and call out the outdated and misleading arguments that are compromising effective climate policy and jeopardizing the realization of climate goals." 🔎Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eWVtMwtg ⬇ Download the report: https://lnkd.in/gFAJtgYw Robin Wilson Dylan Tanner Sofia Shehana Basheer Kitty Hatchley
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🌱 🏅Climate policy leadership can incentivize faster climate action, unlock investment and level the playing field for those leading the race to zero emissions. Last week our Australia Program Manager Jack Herring was joined by Climate Integrity, Better Futures Australia and the Electric Vehicle Council at an online Race to Zero event to discuss how supportive climate policy engagement from non-state actors can drive ambitious climate policy in Australia. InfluenceMap’s previous Australia research (https://lnkd.in/ei8rK5kv) has indicated that companies with more obstructive overall climate policy engagement are more likely to actively engage on policy than companies with more supportive positions. By adopting a proactive and constructive voice in public policymaking, and increasing transparency around corporate climate policy advocacy - both individually and through industry associations - companies can counterbalance the oppositional lobbying of the fossil fuel value chain. This would provide policymakers with ample evidence of business buy-in for the climate solutions that will enable the successful realization of their own transition pathways. You can find InfluenceMap’s latest briefing on steps companies can take towards climate policy leadership here (https://lnkd.in/ejD4uFyw). A good summary of additional resources and toolkits can be found in We Mean Business' Framework for Responsible Policy Engagement (https://lnkd.in/eWQn_Hpv) and Race to Zero and the Exponential Roadmap Initiative’s Business Associations Climate Action Guide (https://lnkd.in/ewCvf8e2). For those who could not make it, you can access the recording here (https://lnkd.in/eDwBBidy) (passcode: Py?qU87t). For further resources and best-practice guidance on corporate climate policy disclosures and reviews from InfluenceMap, see here (https://lnkd.in/eFZ68cci)
Aus Case Studies: Race to Zero
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