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.
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.
Climate Lobbying Overview: United Tractors in 2021-2023 has not clearly disclosed its positioning and engagement with climate regulations, with evidence suggesting mixed, limited engagement.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: United Tractors has limited disclosure in its top-line messaging. The company's 2022 Sustainability Report, released in 2023, stated top-line support for a 2060 net-zero GHG emissions target in Indonesia. While the company’s 2021 Annual Report, released, in 2022, recognizes some of the science of climate change, the company did not communicate a clear position on the Paris Agreement or the need for global emissions reductions in line with IPCC recommendations in the same report.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: In 2021-2023, United Tractors appeared to have had limited direct engagement with climate policy. United Tractors does not provide a dedicated disclosure on its climate positioning or lobbying on its website, and United Tractors did not respond to CDP's Climate Change Questionnaire to disclose their policy engagement in 2022.
Positioning on Energy Transition: United Tractors appears to have a mixed position on the energy transition. In its 2021 Annual Report, released in 2022, United Tractors appeared supportive of a sustained role for coal in the energy mix, noting that "a number of countries are still building new coal-fired steam power plants (PLTU) that require a long-term guarantee of coal supply considering that the minimum age of the PLTU is around 30 years before its efficiency declines". In the company’s 2020 Sustainability Report, released in 2021, United Tractors acknowledged the change in demand for coal but did not make clear its position on transitioning the energy mix. An August 2021 media comment by United Tractors CEO, Frans Kesuma, reported by PWC, appeared to support the continued use of coal in Indonesia while promoting the use of carbon capture technology.
Industry Association Governance: United Tractors does not publicly disclose a list of its memberships to industry associations on its website or to CDP. The company has not published a review of its industry trade associations and InfluenceMap could not find evidence of memberships to trade associations active on climate.
Additional Note: United Tractors is headquartered in Indonesia, 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 United Tractor's climate policy engagement activities, these scores should be considered provisional at this time.
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 2023.