Policy as a Competitive Advantage: Corporate Climate Leadership

How can sustainability leaders get buy-in across the company to engage in climate policy advocacy? When should companies take a public or private approach to climate policy advocacy and what does each look like? The Inflation Reduction Act is the most comprehensive piece of climate legislation that has ever been passed and is providing hundreds of billions of dollars to support decarbonization and create jobs for a green economy. Many corporations have engaged with policymakers on both sides of the aisle to communicate the importance of government support for the private sector’s investments in decarbonization so that corporations can meet their climate targets. Hear corporate sustainability and policy leaders discuss how they have secured internal support to engage in climate policy advocacy, successes with local suppliers engaging in climate policy advocacy, and best practices for corporate climate policy advocacy.