Climate Policy Score: D Total has communicated a more positive position on certain climate-motivated policies since 2015, although continues to advocate an energy policy agenda focused around fossil fuels. Furthermore, the company retains memberships to a number of powerful trade associations engaged in active opposition of climate regulations. In line with its efforts to project itself as a “responsible energy major”, Total has stated support for an energy mix “in line with the IEA’s 2°C scenario and whose carbon intensity declines steadily.” In 2017, Total supported emission standards to ensure the phase-out of coal in EU capacity markets. Total also supports the implementation of a carbon price between 30-40 USD and has stated support for policies including the emission trading system (EU ETS) and a carbon price floor in Europe, as well as a carbon tax & dividend plan in the US. However, the carbon tax policy supported by the company in the US appears to come with the caveat that other regulations, including the US Clean Power Plan, are rolled back. In its 2018 CDP disclosure Total stated that it supports “one single EU-wide GHG emissions reduction target”, although this suggests the company has not supported increasing separate targets for energy efficiency, for example. Total is supporting measures to transition from coal to gas power but rejects the notion of gas as a transition fuel, instead promoting it as a long-term energy solution. The company does not appear to support urgency on decarbonizing the global energy mix and Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne has opposed the “unrealistic idea of an abrupt transition.” Total retains membership of trade associations including Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA), all of which have actively lobbied for the expansion of oil and gas production globally. Patrick Pouyanne does not appear to support a significant shift to electricity in the transport sector and Total retains membership of trade associations including the API, the AFPM and FuelsEurope that lobbied against progressive policy to promote electric vehicles in the US and EU in 2017-2018. The Trade Associations Climate Policy Score: F The API has consistently advocated against the role of the US government in tackling climate change. In 2015 API President Jack Gerald argued that President Obama’s support of the Paris climate change summit was driven by "narrow political ideology" and, since the 2016 US election, the group has heavily promoted a deregulatory agenda in the country, suggesting it is more important than further action on climate change. In 2018, the API continued to lobby the US EPA for a broad a reconsideration of its approach to increasing emission limits and regulation and in 2019 maintains its position of opposition to the role of government policy in defining the US energy mix. In 2019, the API has refrained from taking a position on a US carbon tax despite it being backed by some of API’s largest members, and instead, President Mike Sommers has emphasised the importance of voluntary emission reductions in press briefings. In 2017, former API President Jack Gerard stated that the API doesn’t have a position on a US carbon tax because he didn’t believe it would be given “serious consideration” in the House or Senate. The organisation has, however, opposed carbon pricing regulation in the past; in 2016, an API spokesperson claimed that the organisation “had a long history opposing carbon taxes.” The API appears to oppose direct regulation of methane. Since 2016, the organisation has relentlessly pursued the removal or weakening of Bureau of Land Management's 25 InfluenceMap March 2019