InfluenceMap's Impact Report: 2015-2025

We are proud to publish a report marking our 10th anniversary, highlighting our mission, achievements, and impact over the past decade, as well as outlining our future aspirations.

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Our Impact 2015-2025

The leading independent global think tank advancing corporate accountability on climate and nature

Messages from the Executive Director and Chair

Dylan Tanner
Executive Director, InfluenceMap
We founded InfluenceMap just before the Paris Agreement in 2015 to expose how the corporate sector shapes climate policy, often behind the scenes. What began as a small initiative has grown into a global organization of 75 team members. Though our reach has expanded, our mission is unchanged: to produce impactful analysis and engage key stakeholders to drive corporate accountability and remove systemic barriers to action on climate and nature.

Our LobbyMap platform has shaped climate policy worldwide, supporting investors, media, NGOs, and corporate coalitions. FinanceMap continues to challenge greenwashing and inspire climate leadership in the financial sector. With a decade of experience, we advocate for stronger lobbying and financial disclosures within global accountability frameworks.

In the following pages, we share our work, approach, and the tangible impact we’ve made. As the climate and nature crises escalate, our role remains vital. Marking our ten-year milestone, I extend deep thanks to our team, board, advisors, funders, and partners. Thank you for being part of this journey.

Kyoko Altman
Non-executive Chair, InfluenceMap
Science-based data and rigorous analysis have been central to InfluenceMap’s global impact on climate policy. Over the past decade, the organization has built the world’s most comprehensive database tracking corporate and industry lobbying on climate—enabling investors, policymakers, media, and civil society to separate rhetoric from reality.

Since joining the organization, I’ve been encouraged by several key developments: our global expansion, including the Asia-Pacific region, the growing adoption of our insights by forward-thinking corporate leaders, and our embrace of cutting-edge technologies, including AI, to scale impact and enhance transparency.

At a time when climate policy is facing intensifying, coordinated opposition, InfluenceMap’s growing influence—and the momentum behind it—offers a powerful source of optimism for the road ahead.

Our Mission

InfluenceMap’s mission is to drive ambitious action from corporations, financial institutions, and governments worldwide to address the climate and biodiversity crises. At the core of this mission is our critical and unique role in advancing the urgent adoption and implementation of science-based policy and regulation by governments. As a global research and engagement organization, we deliver rigorous, compelling analysis to enable and substantiate the critical work of influential stakeholders. Our strategy is to promote corporate accountability and remove barriers to meaningful progress on climate and nature.

We focus on truly global, systemic challenges—such as the complex ways in which corporations influence public policy. Through our evidence-based, science-led methodologies and strategic engagement around our content, we bring much-needed clarity, empowering our partners and audiences to understand, measure, and ultimately drive systemic change.

As an independent think tank, our working style is rooted in deep collaboration with a diverse range of partners and stakeholders, each bringing their own strategies to drive change and create impact. We work closely with positive actors across investor networks, civil society, policymakers, the media, and the private sector to ensure they understand our work and can leverage it to maximum effect.

Our Theory of Change is grounded in the principle that meaningful system change begins with measurement and understanding. We rely on various tactics deployed by our partners, united by this foundational belief. Our strategy of multi-stakeholder collaboration is significantly strengthened by InfluenceMap’s independence from political, commercial, or campaign-specific interests.