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.
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.
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.
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
We search the main organizational Web site of the company and its direct links to major affiliates and attached documents (e.g. the CSR report). |
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 three of the 2014 CDP's political influence questions (currently these are not numerically scored by the CDP process). |
Legislative Consultations
Legislative Consultation documents from official government sources. As of July 2015, we consider relevant information originating directly from the US Government and the European Commission other key regions e.g. Australia and Japan. |
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. We search earnings comments via Edgar Online and Fair Disclosure Wire. |
EU Register
Information provided by to the voluntary EU Transparency Register. |
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Climate Science Transparency
Is the organisation being transparent about climate change science? |
2 | 2 | NS | NS | NS | 2 | NS | NA | |
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Climate Science Stance
Is the organization supporting the science of climate change and the response demanded (as per the IPCC) |
2 | 2 | NA | NS | NS | 2 | NS | NA | |
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Need for climate regulations
To what extent does the organization express the need for climate policy and regulations in general. |
2 | 2 | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NA | |
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UN Treaty Support
Is the organization supporting a global treaty on climate change and the UN FCCC process? |
2 | 2 | 2 | NS | 2 | 1 | NS | NA | |
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Transparency on Legislation
Is the organisation being transparent about their positions on climate change legislation and policy, including CEO statements. |
2 | NA | 2 | NA | NA | NA | NS | 1 | |
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Carbon Tax
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: carbon tax. |
2 | 2 | 1 | NS | 2 | 2 | NS | NA | |
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Emissions Trading
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: emissions trading. |
2 | 2 | 2 | NS | 2 | 2 | NS | NA | |
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Energy Efficiency Standards
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: Energy efficiency standards and targets |
2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | NS | 1 | NS | NA | |
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Renewable Energy Legislation
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: Renewable energy targets, subsidies and legislation. |
NS | 1 | 2 | 2 | NS | NS | NS | NA | |
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Energy Policy and Mix
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: energy policy and the energy mix. We refer to IPCC thinking on renewables, coal, oil and gas. |
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | NS | NA | |
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GHG Emission Standards
Is the organisation supporting policy and legislative measures to address climate change: GHG emission standards and targets. |
NS | 1 | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NA | |
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Disclosure on Relationships
The Caring for Climate “inventory” of climate change policy influences: Are companies being transparent about their business associations which may impact climate debate and policy |
-1 | NS | 2 | NA | NA | NA | NS | 1 | |
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
CEO of SSE is a vice-president of Eurelectric
Alistair Phillip-Davies
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
SSE is a member of IETA
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.
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SSE appears to be actively and positively lobbying a number of EU and UK energy and climate policies. SSE has consistently supported climate regulations in line with achieving a 2°C target. It strongly supports the Paris Agreement and, in 2016, signed the CARE ambition statement which advocated raising the ambition of EU Climate targets to support the Paris Agreement. SSE has communicated its support for GHG emissions targets relating to the UK’s 5th Carbon Budget in 2016. In 2016 SSE supported ambitious reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) including support for the Market Stability Reserve and increasing the ambition of the Linear Reduction Factor. Furthermore, SSE has consistently supported the UK carbon price floor and in 2016 urged UK Prime Minister Theresa May to maintain the policy. SSE in 2015 also supported renewable energy targets in Scotland and in the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Package. The company also advocated for more ambitious ECO energy efficiency policies in the UK in 2014 and supported energy efficiency measures in the EU 2030 package. SSE appears to actively support the low-carbon energy transition in the UK, including the electrification of transport and has called on the UK government in 2017 to ban coal from the capacity market mechanism.