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.
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco is a partner company to Business Europe
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco is a partner company in the Corporate Advisory and Support Group
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco is a partner company to Business Europe
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco is a partner company in the Corporate Advisory and Support Group
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco plc is on the presidents committee at CBI
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco plc is a member of CBI President's Council
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco plc is on the presidents committee at CBI
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
British American Tobacco plc is a member of CBI President's Council
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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British American Tobacco appears to have little engagement with climate change policy. On its website, the company states some general support for carbon trading policy and, in 2012, it signed a letter from UK businesses calling on policy makers to set a specific carbon emissions reduction target. However, there is evidence of membership donations to the Australian Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in 2012, which is known to produce and disseminate climate change denial]. They are also corporate members of Business Europe and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which have resisted strands of climate change legislation in Europe.