CEO DATELINE—U.K. group rips U.S. associations on climate
CEO DATELINE—U.K. group rips U.S. associations on climate
- September 30, 2019 |
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WILLIAM EHART
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A United Kingdom-based interest group slammed U.S. trade associations for being "the most impactful climate policy opponents."
InfluenceMap, funded by various foundations and charitable groups—and also apparently by the European Union—criticized the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers in particular.
"The two most powerful and oppositional trade groups are the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers which, following a successful campaigns to get the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, have pursued wide-ranging strategies to undermine climate leadership and install a deeply pro-fossil legal framework in the country since 2016," the group said in a September report.
"Powerful sector-specific groups the American Petroleum Institute, the American Fuels and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers are close behind in terms of opposition to climate policy progress, having lobbied for and obtained key regulatory rollbacks on methane emissions and automotive fuel economy standards in 2018-19," the report states.
The Chamber said Sept. 24 that it would form a climate change task force to gauge business community sentiment on the issue. In April, the Chamber said "inaction is not an option" on climate change.
However, InfluenceMap said the latter statement is an attempt to "distract the media and politicians from (the Chamber's) recently successful and ongoing lobbying to hold meaningful climate regulations at bay."
InfluenceMap also faulted the American Legislative Exchange Council and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity among the top opponents of climate efforts.
International associations also made the list, with the Japan Business Federation and Minerals Council of Australia ranked more negatively than the Auto Alliance and ACCCE.
InfluenceMap lists organizations such as the Wallace Global Fund and the European Climate Foundation among its funders, along with Climate-KIC, which is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, an independent body of the European Union.
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