Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Meta (formerly Facebook) engages on climate policy with broadly positive positions, although recent evidence of direct engagement (from 2023 to present) is somewhat limited. The company appears most active on policy related to renewable energy generation. Though its direct engagements appear generally positive, Meta is a member of several industry associations which advocate on climate policy with consistently negative positions, such as the US Chamber of Commerce, where a Meta executive serves on the Board of Directors.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: InfluenceMap finds limited recent evidence of Meta’s top-line messaging on climate policy. In its 2023 Sustainability Report, released July 2023, the company highlights its participation at COP27, emphasizing that “we need governments around the world to move toward a net zero economy.” However, in its most recent Sustainability Report, released August 2024, Meta does not state a clear position on the need for government policy to address climate change. Similarly, Meta does not offer a position on the need to limit global temperature rise in its 2024 Sustainability Report, though the company did clearly emphasize this point in its 2021 Sustainability Report.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Meta appears generally supportive of various strands of climate policy, though recent evidence of engagement on specific policies is limited. In its 2023 CDP Response, Meta states support for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) tax provisions that incentivize renewable energy development. In its 2023 Responsible Business Practices Report, the company appears to generally support the protection and enhancement of natural carbon sinks, but does not state a clear position on the need for policy to achieve these goals.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Meta has demonstrated general support for the energy transition in the past, but recent engagement leaves its position somewhat unclear. The company appeared to support the removal and redirection of fossil fuel subsidies in its 2021 Sustainability Report. A December 2022 article reports that Meta, along with several other corporations, advocated for ambitious decarbonization in North Carolina, cautioning that the state’s leading utility proposed a carbon plan that “rel(ied) too heavily on natural gas during a transition period, and not enough on clean alternatives like solar and wind energy.” However, the company’s disclosure of this advocacy in its 2023 CDP Response appears to qualify its support for North Carolina’s decarbonization efforts, stating that “(Meta) supported the policy but requested appropriate regulatory mechanisms to protect customers.” Meta also discloses its advocacy in Iowa in its 2023 CDP Response, where it supported the WindPrime docket with the goal of increasing renewable capacity on the grid, with similar caveats for “appropriate regulatory mechanisms to protect customers.”
More recently, Meta has communicated on the need for clean energy to power its growing data center operations. The company appeared to generally support the development of nuclear energy alongside an increase of renewables in the energy mix in a December 2024 blog, but did not clearly advocate for government policy to facilitate this buildout.
Industry Association Governance: Meta is not fully transparent regarding its indirect engagement on climate policy. The company discloses a partial list of industry association memberships on its website, but appears to primarily limit the list to US-based organizations, and does not include detail of the groups’ climate policy positions or engagement activities. Meta offers some detail in its 2023 CDP Response, but does not disclose all memberships. It is a member of several industry associations which are actively involved on climate policy with consistently negative positions, such as the Business Council of New York State, the California Chamber of Commerce, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q2 2025.