Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | Netflix provides a moderate level of transparency on its climate-related lobbying. It discloses that it joined “an open letter to G20 governments via We Mean Business” and worked with Ceres and the Environmental Defense Fund to secure passage of “a Clean Electricity Performance Program in the U.S. Congress,” giving some visibility into the climate issues on which it has campaigned, although only one of these references—the Clean Electricity Performance Program—clearly identifies a specific piece of legislation. The company also explains how it seeks to influence policy, describing the use of a public letter as a direct mechanism aimed at national governments and collaboration with advocacy groups to lobby the U.S. Congress, thereby identifying both the methods used and their policymaking targets. Finally, Netflix states the changes it wants to see: stronger national climate targets and the adoption of a federal Clean Electricity Performance Program, which makes its desired outcomes reasonably clear even though no quantitative benchmarks are provided. Taken together, these disclosures demonstrate solid, but not exhaustive, insight into the company’s climate-policy lobbying activities. | 2 |