Equity Residential

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Strong	Equity Residential provides a high level of transparency around its climate-policy lobbying. It names at least three specific sub-national regulations it has engaged on – New York City’s Local Law 97, Cambridge’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO), and Boston’s Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) – and also identifies activity on proposed Building Energy Performance Standards in Seattle and other jurisdictions. The company explains how it intervenes, describing direct meetings and discussions with city officials, written submissions, and participation in task forces such as the Seattle BEPS drafting group, as well as providing feedback through advocacy groups, thereby revealing both the mechanisms used and the governmental targets in Boston, Cambridge, Seattle, Denver and Maryland. It is reasonably clear about the outcomes it seeks, for example supporting overall decarbonisation goals while pressing for longer compliance cycles and adjusted timelines and targets to align with practical retrofit schedules and investment cycles, although the number of distinct, precisely articulated policy asks is limited. Taken together, these disclosures demonstrate strong transparency on what the company lobbies, how it lobbies, and the policy changes it is pursuing.	3

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
None	Equity Residential provides no indication of any governance framework for aligning its lobbying or policy engagement with climate goals, explicitly answering “No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years” when asked whether it has “a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.” We found no evidence of any policy, process, oversight body, named individual, or mechanism—direct or indirect—for reviewing, monitoring, or aligning its lobbying or industry association activities with climate objectives.	0