Carrier Global Corp

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Comprehensive	Carrier Global Corp provides extensive, specific disclosure of its climate-policy lobbying. The company names a wide range of concrete measures it has sought to influence, including the Montréal Protocol and its Kigali Amendment, the U.S. AIM Act refrigerant phase-down, California’s CARB R4 rulemaking, the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, multiple U.S. Department of Energy efficiency rulemakings negotiated through the ASRAC working group, and proposed changes to the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. It also explains in detail how it lobbied: direct meetings with CARB staff and board members, close collaboration with the U.S. executive branch and Congress, participation as a voting member of DOE’s ASRAC, written comments and manufacturer interviews on federal rulemakings, attendance at White House roundtables on heat-pump manufacturing and home electrification, and partnership initiatives such as the GIZ cold-chain agreement announced at COP28. Finally, Carrier is clear about the outcomes it seeks, such as accelerating timelines for the adoption of low-GWP refrigerants, ensuring that low-GWP products manufactured before official phase-down dates “count” toward CARB R4 compliance, negotiating new efficiency test procedures and standards for commercial HVAC equipment while seeking limited exceptions where consumer cost or technical feasibility is a concern, influencing the Inflation Reduction Act to boost heat-pump incentives, and pressing for binding efficiency targets in the EU buildings directive. These detailed descriptions of policies, mechanisms, targets and desired results demonstrate a high level of transparency around the company’s climate-related lobbying activities.	4

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Moderate	Carrier Global Corp outlines a structured process for aligning its policy engagement with its climate commitments, noting that “Our Government Relations team, which has responsibility for policy engagement, uses our climate change policy as the guide for climate engagement,” and that this team “regularly meets with our Sustainability team and regularly participates in business meetings with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure alignment with our business.” The company also discloses that “The Governance Committee and Board review and monitor the company’s government relations activities,” providing a clear oversight mechanism at the senior level. However, the disclosure focuses on direct engagement by the Government Relations team, and we found no evidence of governance over indirect lobbying through trade associations or an independent audit or publicly available review of climate lobbying alignment, indicating that the framework may benefit from further expansion to cover indirect advocacy channels and external verification of alignment.	2