Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Saudi Aramco (Aramco) exhibits limited policy engagement that is broadly misaligned with policy pathways for delivering the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. Despite limited engagement on climate-related regulations, Aramco advocates against the energy transition and continues to promote the role of fossil fuels in the future energy mix.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: While Saudi Aramco states support for the goals of the Paris Agreement, the company at the same time cautions against urgent climate action, citing energy security and energy demand concerns. For example, the company stated support for keeping temperature increases below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and the UN Paris Agreement on its corporate website, accessed in July 2025. However, on its website, accessed in June 2024, Aramco appeared to emphasize the threat of energy security and demand in responding to climate change, thereby appearing to advocate for a less urgent approach.
On the need for regulation to respond to climate change, Aramco appears to support the use of carbon pricing, but has stressed the need for market-based mechanisms in a manner that appears to prioritize economic growth, most recently in its 2023 Sustainability Report, published in May 2024.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Saudi Aramco appears to have limited transparent engagement with specific items of climate regulation and legislation. The company does not appear to directly disclose its positions towards, or engagement with, any climate-related policy in its corporate reporting.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Saudi Aramco appears to oppose the energy transition in favor of a continued role for fossil fuels in the future energy mix, citing arguments of energy security and the demand in the global south for development. In a March 2024 press release, Aramco CEO Amin Nasser advocated against urgently transitioning the energy mix away from fossil fuels to zero-carbon technologies. Nasser described the energy transition as “visibly failing” and opposed the phase out of oil and gas, instead calling for fossil fuels to meet additional energy demand in the Global South. The company has also consistently advocated for new investments in oil and gas. For example, in a February 2024 Twitter post the company highlighted the long-term importance of fossil fuel investments.
Saudi Aramco appears to advocate against the decarbonization of road transport. The company advocated for the long-term role of internal combustion engine (ICE) light-duty vehicles over rapid electrification in its 2024 Sustainability Report, published in March 2025. CEO Nasser also expressed concern with the market competitiveness of electric vehicles in a June 2025 speech at the Energy Asia conference, instead promoting the long-term role of fossil fuels.
Industry Association Governance: Saudi Aramco lacks a clearly identifiable disclosure of memberships held with industry associations and has not published an industry association review. Aramco is a member of the International Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) and a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, (Motiva Enterprises), is a member of American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) and American Petroleum Institute (API). These industry associations have engaged negatively on climate-related regulations and the energy transition.
Additional Note: Saudi Aramco is headquartered in Saudi Arabia, 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 Saudi Aramco's climate policy engagement activities, these scores should be considered provisional at this time.
In addition, Saudi Aramco is a listed company with more than 50% of its shares owned by the government of Saudi Arabia. State-owned enterprises likely retain channels of direct and private engagement with government officials that InfluenceMap is unable to assess, and therefore are not represented in Saudi Aramco's engagement intensity metric.
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.