We have expanded the list of climate policies we assess company engagement with to incorporate land-use related policy, referring to legislative or regulatory measures to enhance and protect ecosystems and land where carbon is being stored. Assessments under this category are currently underweighted in terms of their contribution to the overall company metrics. This weighting will be progressively increased over the next 6 months.
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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Senior executive is on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Engagement Center advisory board (announced 2019)
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AT&T is vice chair of the Brazil-US Business Council, which operates under the US Chamber of Commerce
Karim Lesina
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
AT&T is a member of the US Chamber
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
Senior executive is on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Engagement Center advisory board (announced 2019)
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
AT&T is vice chair of the Brazil-US Business Council, which operates under the US Chamber of Commerce
Karim Lesina
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
AT&T is a member of the US Chamber
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John Stankey is a member of Business Roundtable
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CEO of AT&T is a member of the Board of Directors
Chuck Robbins
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John Stankey is a member of Business Roundtable
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
CEO of AT&T is a member of the Board of Directors
Chuck Robbins
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
AT&T may be a member of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Listed as a Sustaining Pillar Partner to the Florida 2030 Project, but unclear if AT&T is an annual dues-paying member of the group (FL Chamber Website, last checked November 2022)
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
AT&T may be a member of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Listed as a Sustaining Pillar Partner to the Florida 2030 Project, but unclear if AT&T is an annual dues-paying member of the group (FL Chamber Website, last checked November 2022)
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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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Climate Lobbying Overview: AT&T has limited but positive engagement with climate change policy in the U.S. The company remains a member of several industry associations actively opposed to climate policy, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: AT&T offers positive top-line support for climate policy. On its corporate website, accessed in February 2022, AT&T strongly supported the move towards a net zero economy by 2050 with interim targets, in line with IPCC recommendations. A senior executive from the company was generally supportive of the need for climate policy in an April 2021 LinkedIn Post as well as the UNFCCC process in September 2021. However, AT&T opposed the corporate tax increase in the Build Back Better Act through the RATE coalition in 2021-22, without offering any support for the climate provisions in the bill.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: AT&T engages only minimally with specific climate change policies. In April 2021, AT&T signed a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency to advocates for the strengthening of GHG emissions standards in the US after the rollback of the policies under the Trump administration. From 2017-2019, through the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), AT&T advocated for a US federal level carbon tax that is revenue-neutral through dividends returned to US citizens. However, the CLC’s position included support for rollback of other forms of carbon regulation like the Clean Power Plan. The Council’s most recent Bipartisan Climate Roadmap, released in August 2021 and endorsed by AT&T, continues to advocate for “trading the most ambitious carbon price enacted by any leading emitter nation for regulatory relief.”
Positioning on Energy Transition: AT&T seems generally supportive of the energy transition. The company supported the transition to a net-zero economy in a February 2022 press release, and is a member of Ceres’ Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance as of 2020 which supports the uptake of electric vehicles. AT&T signed a joint letter in April 2021 to the Environmental Protection Agency to support strong policies to facilitate the electrification of road transportation.
Industry Association Governance: AT&T discloses a list of its industry associations but with no further details on the groups’ positions on climate policy or its own alignment with those positions. AT&T has not published a review of its alignment with its industry associations on climate policy. The company is a member of several industry associations which are engaging negatively with climate policy in the US, including the National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce.