Engie
What do our scores mean?
The organizational score represents the degree to which the organization influencing climate policy and legislation. Corporations also have relationship scores reflecting their links with influencers like trade associations. Both are combined to place the corporation in a performance band. Full details can be found here.
Engagement Intensity
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 35 indicates a relatively large amount of climate policy engagement.
Relationship Score, December 2020
A new batch of industry associations has been uploaded onto the InfluenceMap system and the relationship scores recalculated accordingly.
Updated terminology, February 2021
We adjusted the terminology used to describe the queries running down the left-hand side of our scoring matrix and added additional explanatory text to the info-boxes. This has no impact on the scores and methodology. It has been done following user feedback to improve clarity.
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What do the 0,1,2 and NSs, NAs mean?
Each cell in the organization's matrix presents a chance for us to assess each data source against our column of climate change policy queries. We score from -2 to 2, with negative scores representing evidence of obstructive influence. "NA" means "not applicable" and "NS" means "not scored" - that is we did not find any evidence either way. In both cases, the cell's weighting is re-distributed over others. Red and blue cells represent highly interesting negative or positive influence respectively. Full details can be found here.
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What is the Relationship 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. Full details can be found here.
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Main Web Site
The main organizational Web site of the company and its direct links to major affiliates and attached documents. |
Social Media
We search other media and sites funded or controlled by the organization, such as social media (Twitter, Facebook) and direct advertising campaigns of the organization. |
CDP Responses
We assess and score responses to two questions from CDP's climate change information request (12.3 a & 12.3c) related to political influence questions (currently these are not numerically scored by the CDP process). |
Legislative Consultations
Comments from the entity being scored on governmental regulatory consultation processes, including those obtained by InfluenceMap through Freedom of Information requests. |
Media Reports
Here we search in a consistent manner (the organization name and relevant query search terms) a set of web sites of representing reputable news or data aggregations. Supported by targeted searches of proprietary databases. |
CEO Messaging
Here we search in a consistent manner (the CEO/Chairman, organization name and relevant query search terms) a set of web sites of representing reputable news or data aggregations. Supported by targeted searches of proprietary databases. |
Financial Disclosures
We search 10-K and 20-F SEC filings where available, and non US equivalents where not. . |
EU Register
Information provided by to the voluntary EU Transparency Register. |
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Communication of Climate Science
Is the organization transparent and clear about its position on climate change science? |
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1
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NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NA |
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Alignment with IPCC on Climate Action
Is the organization supporting the science-based response to climate change as set out by the IPCC? (the IPCC) |
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1
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NA |
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NS |
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NS | NA |
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Supporting the Need for Regulations
To what extent does the organization express the need for regulatory intervention to resolve the climate crisis? |
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1
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NA | NS | NS |
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1
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NA |
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Support of UN Climate Process
Is the organization supporting the UN FCCC process on climate change? |
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NS | NS | NS |
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1
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NA |
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Transparency on Legislation
Is the organisation transparent about its positions on climate change legislation/policy and its activities to influence it? |
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NA |
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NA | NA | NA | NS | NA |
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Carbon Tax
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: carbon tax. |
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2
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NS | NS |
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NS | NA |
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Emissions Trading
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: emissions trading. |
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1
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2
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0
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0
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1
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1
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NA |
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Energy and Resource Efficiency
Is the organization supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: energy efficiency policy, standards, and targets |
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NS | NS |
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0
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2
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1
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NA |
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Renewable Energy
Is the organization supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: Renewable energy legislation, targets, subsidies, and other policy |
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0
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0
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0
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0
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NA |
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Energy Transition & Zero Carbon Technologies
Is the organization supporting an IPCC-aligned transition of the economy away from carbon-emitting technologies, including supporting relevant policy and legislative measures to enable this transition? |
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GHG Emission Regulation
Is the organization supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: GHG emission standards and targets. Is the organization supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: Standards, targets, and other regulatory measures directly targeting Greenhouse Gas emissions |
NS |
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NS |
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NS | NA |
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Disclosure on Relationships
Is the organization transparent about its involvement with industry associations that are influencing climate policy, including the extent to which it is aligned with these groups on climate? |
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NS |
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NA | NA | NA | NS | NA |
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
A Senior Executive of Engie is co-president of MEDEF's committee for the Ecological and Economic Transition
Carole Le Gall
Open PDF file of Data Source
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
A senior executive of Engie is the President of MEDEF's committee on energy, competitiveness and climate
Gwenaëlle Huet
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie is an indirect member through the trade association Union Française de l'Electricité
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
A Senior Executive of Engie is co-president of MEDEF's committee for the Ecological and Economic Transition
Carole Le Gall
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
A senior executive of Engie is the President of MEDEF's committee on energy, competitiveness and climate
Gwenaëlle Huet
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie is an indirect member through the trade association Union Française de l'Electricité
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie Chairman is a member of ERT 2020
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie CEO is a member of ERT
Gerard Mestrallet
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie Chairman is a member of ERT 2020
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie CEO is a member of ERT
Gerard Mestrallet
Open PDF file of Data Source
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Gerard Mestrallet is no longer CEO of Engie
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie CEO is a Member if the ICC G20 CEO Advisory Group
Gérard Mestrallet
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Gerard Mestrallet is no longer CEO of Engie
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
InfluenceMap Comment:
Engie CEO is a Member if the ICC G20 CEO Advisory Group
Gérard Mestrallet
How to Read our Relationship Score Map
In this section, we depict graphically the relationships the corporation has with trade associations, federations, advocacy groups and other third parties who may be acting on their behalf to influence climate change policy. Each of the columns above represents one relationship the corporation appears to have with such a third party. In these columns, the top, dark section represents the strength of the relationship the corporation has with the influencer. For example if a corporation's senior executive also held a key role in the trade association, we would deem this to be a strong relationship and it would be on the far left of the chart above, with the weaker ones to the right. Click on these grey shaded upper sections for details of these relationships. The middle section contains a link to the organization score details of the influencer concerned, so you can see the details of its climate change policy influence. Click on the middle sections for for details of the trade associations. The lower section contains the organization score of that influencer, the lower the more negatively it is influencing climate policy.
Climate Lobbying Overview: Engie is actively engaged with several avenues of climate policy in Europe. The company has taken increasingly positive positions on EU climate ambition and appears focused on advocating for the role of 'renewable' and 'low-carbon' gas in the future energy mix.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Engie has made several statements in favour of increased climate ambition between 2018-2020. Despite initially not supporting a ‘net-zero’ GHG target in a consultation with EU policymakers in 2018 (supporting an 80-95% range target instead), Engie has since advocated support for ‘climate-neutral ’or ‘net-zero’ targets; for example, in consultation with policymakers in Europe in 2020 and via an open letter to the UK prime minister in 2019.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Engie has advocated in favor of carbon pricing as a favored mechanism of reducing GHG emissions. In a 2019 position paper, Engie stated support for a carbon price floor for the EU ETS, having previously used a submission to a UK Select Committee to support a UK Carbon Price Floor in 2016. However, when it came to the implementation of a similar policy in France in 2016, Engie reportedly did not support it because it unfairly penalized gas power generation. In 2020, Engie has engaged EU policymakers on the EU ETS, advocating for favorable emission crediting provisions for other gas technologies, including biomethane and renewable and low-carbon hydrogen.
Engie has also communicated support for policy to implement a higher price on carbon to increase solar energy investment. However, this has previously accompanied support for the removal of what it considers ‘overlapping’ policies and regulation. In particular, the company has previously argued against large-scale subsidies to achieve the same aims. Despite this, in 2019, Engie called for France to increase the ambition of its climate plan with regards to both energy efficiency and renewable capacity targets. In 2020, Engie stated support for the EU renewables target of “at least 32%”, particularly supporting mechanisms to promote renewable gas.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Former Engie CEO Isabelle Kocher communicated actively in favour of decarbonizing of the energy mix, as well as for the role for solar energy. However, in its 2019 registration document, Engie appears to support a prolonged role for natural gas over a focus on electrification in France. Engie has directly engaged policymakers in Europe in 2020 advocating for policies to promote ‘green’ and low-carbon hydrogen, as well as other ‘renewable gases’, but also stressing the “essential role” of natural gas in the medium term.
Industry Association Governance: Despite its policy advocacy, Engie retains membership of numerous trade associations, including BusinessEurope, MEDEF, and Eurogas that are actively and negatively engaged on climate regulation in Europe. In its 2019 Universal Registration Document, Engie discloses its “main associations” but fails to provide detail about boards, committees and working groups. The document also does not comprehensively disclose the industry associations’ positions on climate policy or identify areas of misalignment.