Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner 6 November 2018 e. A 2014 Economist interview with US President Barack Obama in which he highlighted the role played by corporate lobbyists in holding back climate policy.24 2. Since 2015, InfluenceMap has assessed and scored over 250 global industrial companies and 75 key lobby groups on the extent to which they are influencing climate policy globally and whether this is supportive or oppositional. 3. Under this system, each company receives a score (metric known as the Total Score) from 0 to 100 to indicate the level of overall opposition or support of climate change policy. On this scale, a company scoring over 75 indicates broad support for a climate policy agenda in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, whereas scores below 50 indicate increasingly consistent opposition to a range of climate motivated policy. 4. InfluenceMap’s scoring universe covers 31 of the 47 companies identified on the Carbon Majors petition.25 As of November 6th, 2018, this grouping scores an average of 39, with only 5 companies scoring higher than 50 and no companies scoring higher than 56. Around 60% of the companies score under 40, with the bottom 20% scoring under 30. Thus it can be deduced that these Carbon Majors remain, on average, consistently opposed to a range of climate motivated policy and none are supporting the implementation of climate policy and regulations in line with the Paris Agreement. A list of these companies, and their InfluenceMap scores, can be found in the Appendix. 5. InfluenceMap’s system also measures the intensity of lobbying activity by a company and (independently of whether this is supportive or in opposition). This metric is known as the Engagement Intensity. Out of the total set of companies currently scored by InfluenceMap, Engagement Intensity scores range from 0 to 47. Any score over 12 can be considered to represent an active engagement with climate policy, with scores over 25 representing extremely high levels and thus strategic lobbying. Of the same Carbon Majors grouping mentioned above, 70% can be said to have an active engaged in climate policy lobbying, with 35% showing extremely high or strategic levels of lobbying. These scores can be inspected in the Appendix. 6. Current examples of Carbon Major’s engaging in the sorts of activities indicated by InfluenceMap’s metrics include BP’s and other oil companies' campaign to oppose a carbon pricing rule in the US state of Washington,26 24 The Economist interviews Barack Obama: The president on business and inequality, August 2013 25 Lafarge and Holcim covered together under the parent company LafargeHolcim 26 As Washington debates carbon fee, one oil giant is opposed but another is silent; what’s that about?, Seattle Times, Hal Bernton, September 2018 7