Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | Alphabet is highly transparent about its climate-policy lobbying. The company lists numerous specific measures it has worked on, including the 24/7 carbon-free energy goal that was adopted in the U.S. Federal Sustainability Plan, the Clean Energy for America Act, the CLEAN Future Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Clean Electricity Performance Program in the Build Back Better Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Department of Energy’s draft Clean Hydrogen Production Standard, and the U.S. SEC’s proposed climate-risk disclosure rule, as well as European initiatives such as the EU Green Deal and reforms to unlock corporate power-purchase agreements. Alphabet also describes in detail how it lobbies and whom it targets. Its energy and public-policy teams meet directly with the White House, members of Congress, state governors, EU institutions and other national governments; it files formal comments to agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy and the SEC; it sends joint letters to European Commissioners; and it works through industry bodies including the RE-Source Platform, WindEurope, Solar Power Europe, ACORE, ACPA, REBA and the Japan Climate Leaders Partnership. Finally, the company is explicit about the outcomes it seeks. It advocates the federal adoption of 24/7 carbon-free power for government facilities, expansion of clean-energy tax incentives, removal of barriers to corporate power-purchase agreements in Europe, stronger hourly and geographic matching criteria in U.S. hydrogen rules, and consistent, comparable climate-risk reporting for investors. It links these positions to its overall goal of accelerating a zero-carbon electricity system and enabling its own carbon-free operations. Altogether, Alphabet’s disclosures provide clear, specific and comprehensive insight into the policies it engages on, the channels it uses, and the results it is pursuing. | 4 |