Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner 6 November 2018 concludes: “The energy majors' strategy (Shell, BP and Total) leading up to Paris 2015 is to call for a price on carbon. However, all are systematically obstructing the very laws that would enable a meaningful price [...] and trade associations are playing a key role.” 3. Based on this and other systematic evidence indicating the central role played by corporate sponsored external lobby groups in holding back the climate policy agenda globally, in 2017 InfluenceMap assessed the most influential and negative trade associations globally holding back climate policy progress. 38 The methodology considered the positions taken on climate by these groups, the level of lobbying activity exhibited, their relative power in the region where they are active, and the importance to global greenhouse gas emissions of that region. 4. The ten groups most negatively influencing the climate policy agenda (in reverse order of influence) are: the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren); BusinessEurope; the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE); the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC); the International Air Transport Association (IATA); the American Petroleum Institute (API); the National Mining Association (NMA); the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC); the US Chamber of Commerce; and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). 5. InfluenceMap’s systematic analysis and tracking links the Carbon Majors to both these lobbying groups. These can be explored via the InfluenceMap’s online profiles for each company covered under our system, the URL’s to which are within the appendices of this statement. Within the same paper39, the two companies assessed to have the widest and closest links to these and other external groups actively opposing climate change policy are ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, with Total in the top five also. 8) Key Climate Change Motivated Policy Measures Targeted by Fossil Fuel Value Chain Corporate Interests 1. To understand the past and continuing undermining of progress on climate change motivated policy implementation globally, InfluenceMap tracks the progress of key regulatory strands in Europe, North America and Asia. As such we are able to highlight the central role played by the Carbon Majors and lobbying groups funded by them in undermining key regulatory strands since 2010. Below we detail two case studies of successful corporate blocking of urgently required climate policy. This is not intended to be exhaustive but illustrative the trend of opposition. 38 Trade Associations and their Climate Policy Footprint, An InfluenceMap Report, December 2017 39 Trade Associations and their Climate Policy Footprint, An InfluenceMap Report, December 2017 10