Require cars and trucks to get 20-30 percent better mileage by 2027
Energy and environment
Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
Why shareholder democracy is pivotal
Automakers control vehicle efficiency through their own product decisions, and industry lobbying is the documented chief obstacle to stronger standards. InfluenceMap's 2024 global analysis found 14 of 15 major automakers opposed at least one electric vehicle policy and that the Alliance for Automotive Innovation drove calls to weaken proposed U.S. greenhouse gas emission standards. Shareholder pressure on automakers to build efficient fleets and align lobbying attacks both levers at once.
How this was scoredPivotal
Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
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Filed the 2024 shareholder resolution asking Toyota to report annually on whether its climate-related lobbying aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Filed a proposal asking Ford to report on whether its fleet greenhouse gas emissions would rise given planned fleet mix changes and the possible weakening of CAFE standards.
Ford Motor Company: Request for Report on GHG Emissions and CAFE Standards, As You Sow, 2017-12
3 campaigns on record
Issue a comprehensive annual report describing whether and how the company's climate-related lobbying aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement, disclosing misalignments and the corrective action planned.
With AP7, Church of England Pensions Board
Result: Rejected, with more than 90 percent of shareholders voting against
Toyota AGM: shareholders reject climate lobbying resolution, Net Zero Investor, 2024-06
Disclose the company's lobbying policies, its lobbying spending, and its decision-making and board oversight of lobbying.
Result: 33 percent in favour, up from 29 percent the previous year
Publish a report describing whether and how the company's fleet greenhouse gas emissions through 2025 will increase given planned changes in fleet mix and the potential weakening of CAFE standards, or how it will keep emissions consistent with those standards.
Result: 12.8 percent
Ford Motor Company: Request for Report on GHG Emissions and CAFE Standards, As You Sow, 2017-12
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How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
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