BUSINESS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: DRIVING IMPROVED CORPORATE ADVOCACY IN THE UNFCCC PROCESS

The We Mean Business Coalition's 'Business Call for Accountability' urges large multi-national companies and trade groups to adopt higher standards of transparency when engaging with the UNFCCC and COP processes. The call specifically asks companies to report annually on their climate advocacy activities and for trade groups to publicly disclose their climate and energy-related policy positions. This initiative aims to distinguish companies supporting the Paris Agreement from those hindering it, while counteracting negative lobbying from fossil fuel interests.

• The 'Business Call for Accountability' requests two primary transparency measures: that companies provide annual disclosures of their climate advocacy activities and that the trade groups representing them publicly disclose their climate policy positions.
• The document defines Responsible Policy Engagement (RPE) as the alignment of a company's advocacy efforts with its climate and sustainability targets, including the establishment of internal processes to ensure corporate functions are aligned and the disclosure of advocacy to ensure accountability.
• Corporate engagement in climate policy is currently described as mixed, often obstructed by negative lobbying from governments, investors, and businesses, particularly fossil fuel interests who benefit from weaker climate policies.
• The initiative seeks to 'raise the floor' of corporate advocacy transparency rather than 'raise the ceiling' for leadership, noting that thousands of companies already disclose advocacy via CDP or InfluenceMap.
• The call for annual reporting by large multi-national companies on their engagement with domestic and international fora, including COPs, is intended to reinforce the Global Standard on Responsible Climate Lobbying created by CA100+ investor groups.

APA

We Mean Business Coalition (2025). BUSINESS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: DRIVING IMPROVED CORPORATE ADVOCACY IN THE UNFCCC PROCESS. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WMBC_Business-Call-for-Accountability_June-2025.pdf

Chicago

We Mean Business Coalition. BUSINESS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: DRIVING IMPROVED CORPORATE ADVOCACY IN THE UNFCCC PROCESS. 2025. https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WMBC_Business-Call-for-Accountability_June-2025.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{wemeanbusinesscoalition2025business, author = {{We Mean Business Coalition}}, title = {{BUSINESS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY: DRIVING IMPROVED CORPORATE ADVOCACY IN THE UNFCCC PROCESS}}, publisher = {We Mean Business Coalition}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WMBC_Business-Call-for-Accountability_June-2025.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }