Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Netflix demonstrates positive top-line messaging on climate change policy, although with limited evidence of recent engagement. While the company appears to broadly support the energy transition, it lacks communications on specific climate-related policies, and does not appear to disclose its industry associations.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Netflix’s top-line communications on climate policy are positive. The company supported action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C in a September 2021 joint letter with the We Mean Business Coalition. More recently, as a participant in the Ceres LEAD on a Clean Economy event in May 2023, Netflix joined a number of companies calling on US policymakers to capitalize on the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: InfluenceMap finds limited evidence of Netflix’s engagement on specific climate-related policies. In its California state lobbying disclosures for 2023-2024, Netflix reported engagement on policies related to carbon markets and offsets, but did not specify its position.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Netflix appears limited in its engagement with policy related to the energy transition. In August 2023, through coalition comments with the Ceres BICEP Network, Netflix advocated for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the stringency of its proposed power plant rules by expanding the scope of applicability for existing gas plants, and accelerating compliance deadlines for existing coal and new gas plants.
Industry Association Governance: Netflix has disclosed a list of its industry association memberships, but did not include an account of its positions and engagement activities. The company is a member of the Business Roundtable which engages on US climate policy with mostly negative positions, including opposition to the finalization of the NEPA Phase 2 rule, which aimed to strengthen federal agencies' consideration of the climate-related effects of proposed actions, in April 2024. It is also a member of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), which has historically negative positions on climate policy, albeit with more positive top-line statements in recent years. In October 2024, for example, the group offered Recommendations for the Revision of the Strategic Energy Plan, in which it supported carbon capture and storage (CCS) without mentioning the risks and uncertainties of the technology.
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 Q1 2025.