Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | Salesforce provides extensive and concrete information about its climate-policy lobbying. It names numerous individual measures it has worked on, including the U.S. SEC’s proposed Climate Disclosure Rule, the Inflation Reduction Act, the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 15), the European Green Deal and Fit-for-55 package, REPowerEU, the Paris Agreement, the U.K.’s 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution, and state legislation such as Virginia’s decision to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The company also describes a wide array of engagement methods and clearly identifies its targets: submitting an official response to the SEC, “conven[ing] 30+ meetings to discuss federal climate legislation” with U.S. Congress, drafting an op-ed, signing joint CEO letters to the EU Commission and to the U.K. Prime Minister, joining “the largest climate-focused business gathering on Capitol Hill,” and collaborating with more than 400 institutions to influence governments at COP15. Finally, Salesforce is explicit about the outcomes it seeks—for example, it backed the SEC rule while proposing specific implementation amendments, urged adoption of COP15 Target 15 requiring biodiversity reporting, pressed the U.K. to adopt an NDC “in line with a net-zero emissions by 2050 target,” supported an EU emissions-reduction goal of “at least 55% by 2030,” and advocated U.S. re-entry into the Paris Agreement and a national trajectory to net-zero by 2050. By detailing the specific policies, the mechanisms and audiences for its lobbying, and the concrete changes it wants to see, Salesforce demonstrates a very high level of transparency around its climate-related advocacy. | 4 |