Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: The International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (Ipieca) exhibits limited engagement with science-aligned climate policy, with both supportive and oppositional positions. The entity demonstrates strong support for a top-level response to climate change, however, InfluenceMap found no evidence of direct engagement by the group on specific strands of climate-related policy. Ipieca supports a long-term role for oil and gas, with some ambiguity around the deployment of CCS and methane emissions abatement.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Ipieca communicates top-line support for climate policy. The group consistently supports the goals of the Paris Agreement, for example, in its 2024 Annual Report, published May 2025. On its corporate webpage, accessed May 2025, Ipieca supported reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero in line with the 1.5°C target. The organization does not appear to have offered a clear position on the need for regulation to respond to climate change between 2023 and 2025.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: InfluenceMap did not find any recent evidence of Ipieca’s engagement with specific climate-related policies. The group appears to support scaling up energy efficiency measures within oil and gas operations, such as on a corporate webpage accessed May 2025, however it has not expressed a position on legislative energy efficiency standards or targets. On the same webpage, Ipieca supports industry initiatives to reduce methane emissions from operations, however it is unclear whether the group supports GHG emissions regulation, standards, or targets.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Ipieca has advocated on the energy transition with a mixture of science-aligned and misaligned positions, specifically around the role of fossil fuels, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and renewables. The group consistently supports a long-term role for oil and fossil gas, but does not always communicate clear conditions around CCS or methane emissions abatement. In an October 2024 interview, CEO Brian Sullivan supported a long-term role for oil and fossil gas in the energy mix without clarifying the need for methane emissions abatement and CCS. In its 2024 Annual Report, published May 2025, Ipieca suggests that fossil gas will be a “key part” of the energy transition, with ambiguous conditions around methane abatement and no mention of CCS.
On a corporate webpage, accessed in May 2025, Ipieca advocated for the use of “low-carbon” hydrogen in hard-to-abate sectors, including hydrogen produced from fossil gas, but does not state the need to decarbonize hydrogen production or reduce fossil fuel use. Similarly, Ipieca supports the development of CCS in the energy sector on another webpage, also accessed in May 2025, but with ambiguous conditions around its specific implementation. On a separate corporate webpage, Ipieca supported the scale-up of renewable energy to meet Paris Agreement targets, but also emphasized “environmental and social risks” associated with their development. On another webpage accessed May 2025, the group recognized the role of critical minerals in wind and solar technologies, but it is unclear if supporting an energy transition in line with IPCC guidelines.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a regular basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). Due to the limited engagement detected by InfluenceMap on climate policy from this association, the analysis informing the association’s scores and summary is updated periodically. This assessment was last updated in Q2 2025.