Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has moderate levels of engagement with climate policy and exhibits a mixture of positive and negative positions. FICCI supports climate action in its top-line messaging and climate policy aimed at increasing renewable energy and electric vehicles, but appears to support a continued role for fossil fuels in the energy mix.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: FICCI holds positive positions towards climate policy in its top-line messaging. FICCI supported India’s commitments under the UN Paris Agreement in a September 2024 blog, while the association also supported the need for government regulation to respond to climate change on its website, accessed in April 2023. Moreover, the organization appeared to support climate action consistent with IPCC guidelines in September 2023 and September 2022 press releases.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: FICCI’s transparent engagement with climate related legislation appears to be limited. In a June 2023 electric mobility publication, the association appeared to advocate for ambitious Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards for vehicles. FICCI also advocated for a national carbon market in India in a September 2024 blog and a December 2023 press release. The association also appeared to support India’s 500GW renewable energy target by 2030 on its website, accessed in October 2024.
Positioning on Energy Transition: FICCI seems to support the energy transition in broad terms and the decarbonization of the transport sector, but also appears to support a role for fossil fuels in the energy mix. The association has repeatedly advocated for the extension of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India (FAME) scheme, designed to provide additional supporting measures to electric vehicle development. This includes directly advocating to the government of India's Ministry of Heavy Industries to continue the scheme for 5 more years in a December 2023 press release.
FICCI supports developing renewable energy sources on its website, accessed in October 2024, and called for renewable energy sources in India to decarbonize the power sector and hard-to-abate sectors in September 2023 and November 2023 press releases. Similarly, in a September 2023 press release, the association supported large-scale investments in renewable energy infrastructure to meet renewable targets in India.
However, in an August 2024 report, FICCI advocated for the long-term role of fossil gas and investments in gas infrastructure to accelerate India’s economic expansion. Furthermore, in an April 2023 press release from the Ministry of Steel, the President of FICCI Subhrakant Panda called for ‘urgent steps’ to increase the capacities of existing coal mines and to operationalize new ones for coking coal production.
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 industry association’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q2 2025.
Additional Note: FICCI 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 FICCI's climate policy engagement activities, these scores should be considered provisional at this time.