Meta Platforms Inc – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Strong	Meta Platforms Inc appears to have a defined process for ensuring that its climate-related advocacy and policy engagement are consistent with its overall climate change strategy, overseen by a dedicated external engagement manager and supported by cross-functional coordination, a reference narrative, and recurring alignment meetings. The company explains that “internal and external engagements related to sustainability, especially as related to climate change, are conducted by members of Meta’s Sustainability team, in coordination and partnership with our Global Energy, Communications, Advocacy, and Policy teams,” and notes that it has appointed “a dedicated manager for external engagement, who owns and maintains relationships with federal policy-influencing coalitions such as America Is All In and We Mean Business.” To guide both direct and indirect engagement efforts, Meta has developed “an overarching narrative document” as a reference point for activities “both inside and outside of the Sustainability team,” and it “holds regular meetings among internal stakeholders to ensure alignment of engagement activities across geographies.” While this framework indicates strong governance through explicit roles and structured coordination, the company does not disclose any board‐level oversight, formal review procedures, or publicly available audits of its climate lobbying alignment, suggesting room for more senior governance and independent assessment mechanisms. View Sources	B

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Strong

Meta Platforms Inc appears to have a defined process for ensuring that its climate-related advocacy and policy engagement are consistent with its overall climate change strategy, overseen by a dedicated external engagement manager and supported by cross-functional coordination, a reference narrative, and recurring alignment meetings. The company explains that “internal and external engagements related to sustainability, especially as related to climate change, are conducted by members of Meta’s Sustainability team, in coordination and partnership with our Global Energy, Communications, Advocacy, and Policy teams,” and notes that it has appointed “a dedicated manager for external engagement, who owns and maintains relationships with federal policy-influencing coalitions such as America Is All In and We Mean Business.” To guide both direct and indirect engagement efforts, Meta has developed “an overarching narrative document” as a reference point for activities “both inside and outside of the Sustainability team,” and it “holds regular meetings among internal stakeholders to ensure alignment of engagement activities across geographies.” While this framework indicates strong governance through explicit roles and structured coordination, the company does not disclose any board‐level oversight, formal review procedures, or publicly available audits of its climate lobbying alignment, suggesting room for more senior governance and independent assessment mechanisms.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Comprehensive	Meta Platforms provides a highly transparent picture of its climate-policy lobbying. It identifies a wide range of specific legislative and regulatory initiatives it has engaged on – from the European Green Deal and the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the climate provisions of the Build Back Better Act and a green-electricity tariff proposal in Arizona – giving readers a clear view of the exact policies involved. The company also explains how it lobbies and at whom those efforts are directed, describing direct Congressional briefings with U.S. Senate offices, public statements, sign-on letters and joint work with trade associations such as the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, all explicitly aimed at Congress and other named government bodies. Finally, it sets out the concrete results it seeks, including expanded federal funding for transmission build-out and grid studies, broader renewable-energy subsidies, and enhanced greenhouse-gas data collection by the Energy Information Administration. This level of specificity on policies, methods and desired outcomes demonstrates comprehensive transparency around its climate-related lobbying activities.	A