Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner 6 November 2018 InfluenceMap’s research shows them to have since continued their attempts to undermine the efforts underway by publicly mandated bodies globally to act decisively on climate change in the manner dictated by the Paris Agreement and recommended by IPCC communications. The research suggests then that, while the tactics opposing policy progress on climate change by the Carbon Majors have changed from outright denial of the science to more subtle messaging themes, the strategic opposition to global progress on climate change policy remains the same. 11. The remainder of this Statement provides comprehensive data-driven evidence demonstrating that lobbying efforts continue unabated. It also notes key corporations among the Carbon Majors that are active in opposing meaningful climate policy. 6) Lobbying by the Carbon Majors on Climate Change Policy 1. Numerous sources had noted the significance of corporate lobbying on prior to InfluenceMap’s inception. Since 2010 some of these are noted. a. A 2011 paper from Harvard Business School researchers, arguing that a broad measure of corporate impact on the climate change agenda should consider the company’s impact on climate policy.20 b. A 2011 Greenpeace report that demonstrates through clear case studies how corporations including BASF, ArcelorMittal, BHP Billiton and Royal Dutch Shell were augmenting the damage of their operational emissions with active political campaigns against climatemotivated regulations and policy from governments.21 c. In 2011 – four years before the Paris Agreement – Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of UNFCCC noted the profound impact corporate lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry were having on progress on climate change policy.22 d. A detailed study by the Union of Concerned Scientists from 2012 that concluded that while policy measures in the US were needed on climate change ��many U.S. companies are using their influence to muddy the waters—casting unwarranted doubt on the science, adding confusion to the policy discussion, and holding back or slowing down action on solutions.” 23 20 What Environmental Ratings Miss, Auden Schendler and Mike Toffel, October 2011 21 Who’s holding us back?, Greenpeace, November 2011 22 Christiana Figueres: 'lobbyists for fuels of yesterday have a louder voice', The Guardian September 2011 23 How Corporations Have Influenced the U.S. Dialogue on Climate Science and Policy (2012), Union of Concerned Scientists 6