Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Lobbying Overview: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) demonstrated limited policy engagement that is partially aligned with policy pathways aiming to deliver the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. While the engagement with specific climate regulations is limited, the company supports the energy transition, specifically increasing renewable energy sources.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Reliance’s top-line communications on climate policy appear to be positive. In a November 2024 post on the company’s X account, it recognized the need for climate action in light of the extreme weather events happening in India recently. In its 2022-23 Annual Report, published in August 2023, the company supported action to reduce GHG emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C in line with the IPCC.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Reliance appears to have limited transparent engagement with specific climate-related regulations, with no disclosures of direct engagement with policy on its corporate website. RIL acknowledged India updating its Plastic Waste Management Rules to incorporate extended producer responsibility in its 2022-23 Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report, published in August 2023, but the company did not take a position on the policy. Aside from this, InfluenceMap has not been able to find any evidence of engagement from RIL with climate-related regulations.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Reliance appears to support the energy transition, specifically increasing renewable energy sources. In January 2025 Indian Express noted that Chairman & Managing Director Mukesh Ambani supported the transition to a low-carbon economy through the development of green technologies. On its corporate website, accessed in December 2023, the company appeared to support a transition away from fossil fuels to zero and low carbon technologies. In February 2022 on social media, Ambani advocated for India to play a major role in the development of solar energy and hydrogen, to shift the energy mix away from fossil fuels. On its corporate website, accessed in June 2024, RIL also appeared to support the use of bioenergy to replace fossil fuels across the economy, but does not specify usage in hard-to-abate sectors.
Industry Association Governance: Reliance has disclosed a complete list of its industry association memberships in its 2024-25 Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report, but this lacks details on the positions of industry associations on climate policy, and how it attempts to influence these positions. The company has not published an audit of alignment with its industry associations on climate change.
The company is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), with an executive on the association’s national board, as well as the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). Both these groups support climate policy in India, but advocate for a continued role of fossil fuels. Outside of India, the company retains memberships to associations that engage negatively on climate policy in the US and the EU, including the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC).
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 Q3 2025.
Additional Note: Reliance is headquartered in India, where InfluenceMap’s LobbyMap platform can currently only make a provisional assessment of corporate climate policy engagement, due to limited capability to access publicly available data on this issue. As it is possible that InfluenceMap is not yet able to fully capture evidence of Reliance's climate policy engagement activities, these scores should be considered provisional at this time.