Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner
6 November 2018
Appendix B: Details of InflueneMap’s Metrics
Full details of our methodology may be found online at:
https://influencemap.org/FAQ
To measure and score corporate influence on climate change policy, we have
developed a comprehensive process of examining a series of publicly available and
reliable data sources (e.g. legislative consultations, respected press, CDP
responses) and querying them, for each corporation, against a set of climate change
policy and legislation related queries (e.g. position on a carbon tax, energy
efficiency standards). We score each data source/query intersection (or cell) on a 5point scale, with clearly consistent evidence and guidelines for our scorers. There
are 96 such scoring cells at present and the organizational score for each
corporation is computed over these, by our proprietary algorithm that accounts for
weightings and irrelevant data sources/queries. The organizational score is
expressed as a % with 100% representing very supportive influence on climate
policy. We note here that a corporation and an influencer (e.g. a trade body,
chamber of commerce, advocacy group) are scored in exactly the same way to
arrive at their respective organizational score.
A corporation, as well as its organizational score will have a relationship score.
It is computed by aggregating the organizational scores of the Influencers (trade
bodies etc.) it has relationships with, weighted by both the strength of these
relationships and the relative importance of the Influencers towards climate change
policy. A corporation will have a number of relationships with Influencers mapped
in our database. In turn these Influencers will themselves have organizational
scores as computed by exactly the same method as was done for the corporations.
Such relationships vary in nature and strength and we account for this in our
assessment by assigning relationship strengths. For example a trade association
may have 2000 member corporations with 10 of them on its executive committee.
The 10 executive committee members would have strength of 8 compared to 3 for
the regular members, for example. Details of how we compute this can be
found here. The relationship score is expressed as a % with 100% representing
very supportive influence on climate policy. In general if a corporation's
organizational score is roughly equal to its relationship score the corporation's
positions and interactions with climate policies are in line with those of the key
influencers it has relationships with. If the organizational score is much higher than
its relationship score, the trade bodies and other influencers the corporation is
involved in are misaligned with the corporation on climate policy.
For Corporations, the organizational scores and relationship scores are
combined to result in its Total Score. A score of 75% or more indicates the
company is supporting polices and regulations towards a low carbon future.
Conversely lower than a 50% band generally indicates obstructing behaviour.
The engagement intensity (EI) is a metric of the extent to which the company is
engaging on climate change policy matters, whether positively or negatively. It is a
number from 0 (no engagement at all) to 100 (full engagement on all queries/data
points. Clearly energy companies are more affected by climate regulations and will
have a higher EI than, for example retailers. So an organization’s score should be
looked at in conjunction with this metric to gauge the amount of evidence we are
using in each case as a basis for scoring. On our scale, an EI of more than 25
indicates a relatively large amount of climate policy engagement.
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