Business call for accountability to raise advocacy standards
We Mean Business Coalition
The Business Call for Accountability (pdf) seeks to unify the voice of international business groups in encouraging member companies and their trade groups to raise the standards for how they leverage their influence as part of the UNFCCC COPs.
Organized by the We Mean Business Coalition, this Call for Accountability outlines short- and long-term steps to increase transparency and accountability for how companies engage with the UNFCCC, including public advocacy reporting and trade group disclosure.
The core ask is that large multi-nationals who engage with the COPs should annually disclose their climate advocacy activities, and that the trade groups representing them also publicly disclose their climate policy positions.
With leading companies already meeting these expectations, now is the time to make Responsible Policy Engagement the norm in international climate convenings. Currently hundreds of companies already disclose their climate policy advocacy through the CDP Questionnaire or independently (as tracked by InfluenceMap), so many are already showing good practice in this area while laggards persist.
This ‘Business Call for Accountability’ is a unifying call from the business community: we want to encourage companies as well as trade and industry groups to improve advocacy standards and encourage greater transparency in how they engage with and advocate through the UNFCCC process.