InfluenceMap

	Influence Map measures and lists corporate influence on climate policy worldwide
Home page	influencemap.org
Approach	Influence Map uses data from company records and third party sources to assess the company's engagement with climate issues according to a documented ranking system
Phase	Released
Tags	ranking, influencemap, corporate influence, greenwashing, database, climate change, and climate policy
Practices	Organise

Project Start Date	2015
Launch Date	2015
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Environment
Issue addressed	Exposing corporate influence in climate policy
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Narrative	true
Lists	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	We are a neutral and independent UK-based non-profit whose remit is to map, analyze and score the extent to which corporations are influencing climate policy and legislation worldwide.
Approach (How?)	Influence Map uses data from company records and third party sources to assess the company's engagement with climate issues according to a documented ranking system
Language	English
Commissioner	Tellus Mater, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Publisher	Influence Map

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : International Twitter : (338 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: n.a Alexa: 2498504 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 35/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 53/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : High Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : The September Influence Map study has been widely cited in the run-up to COP21 Last updated : 7/12/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

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Team

Team size and expertise

Team Size : Medium Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Dedicated Design : Dedicated

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : false Open Data : Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : Sustainability Planning :

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Organise Collect

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : List Ethical Collection : Guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : Data Cleaning : Manual Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Restricted Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Scrapable