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Time To Get Real: Current and Future Best Practice for Investor Engagement on Climate Policy

2026

https://horizonsproject.us/resources/the-greatest-risk-for-business-is-inaction/

What It Is: A 2026 report from Volans, a think tank and certified B Corp, drawing on 18 months of research (70+ interviews, six investor roundtables, and a 77-response survey of investors representing about $33 trillion in assets) to map how institutional investors engage on climate policy today and what best practice should look like.

Why It Matters: Climate policy engagement is still a poorly resourced add-on, typically staffed by fewer than two people, with 38% of effort going to disclosure rules. Roundtable participants say they would cut that to 16% and double sector-level policy work from 14% to 27%, since stable, predictable rules protect long-term returns. That is a Responsibility a) concern for healthy market rules.

How to Use It: Investors can use the guidance section to build a policy engagement practice anchored in their mandate and consistent across direct and indirect channels. Companies can use the report to anticipate investor scrutiny of their own lobbying, as Norges Bank Investment Management's early-2026 review of 1,200 portfolio companies' climate policy engagement shows.

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Report E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism)

Climate Change as a Macroeconomic Risk Multiplier

E3G, 2023

This analysis reports how climate change acts as a macroeconomic risk multiplier—exacerbating inflation, supply-chain stress, asset re-pricing, sovereign risk, and financial fragility. It argues that businesses and regulators must treat climate as a cross-cutting systemic issue, not simply an environmental add-on, because the economic implications span sectors, geographies and time horizons.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Common Areas of Misalignment

Yamika Ketu of the Ceres’ Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, 2023

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Common Areas of Misalignment

Yamika Ketu of the Ceres’ Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, 2023

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ArticleSNF Agora Institute (Johns Hopkins) & R Street Institute

Conservative Principles for Building Trust in Elections

2023

What It Is: A set of conservative-specific principles for building election trust, developed by Johns Hopkins' SNF Agora Institute and the R Street Institute through a year of off-the-record convenings with Republican elected officials, election administrators, and scholars across four states, released alongside original Gallup-Johns Hopkins polling on conservative confidence in U.S. elections.

Why It Matters: Reflects a thoughtful consensus among knowledgeable conservative leaders on how to address the 40% of Republicans say they're very or somewhat confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections, down from nearly 90% in 2006. Outlines three commonsense principles that can help leaders speak to voters with concerns: 1) Publicly affirming the security and integrity of elections across the U.S. and avoiding fueling doubt about elections in other jurisdictions 2) Using transparency and public outreach to reassure voters of election integrity. 3) Championing policy changes that can help build trust in the elections system.

How to Use It: Consider referencing the principles to demonstrate actions to address voter concerns and using them to guide information provided to employees. Read the full statement of principles for language and specifics to adapt.

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ReportClimate Governance Initiative

Corporate climate policy engagement: A briefing for board directors

2023

Conducting corporate climate policy engagement positively and appropriately is critical to creating the conditions that will enable a company to achieve its net zero transition. This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with the global think tank InfluenceMap, highlights the key issues that board directors should be aware of.

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BookErb Corporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Corporate Political Responsibility

Tom P. Lyon, 2023

An overview of the need for CPR and how the Erb Institute’s Corporate Political Responsibility Taskforce supports companies in aligning their approaches to political influence with their commitments to purpose, values, sustainability and stakeholders, while contributing to rebuilding trust in US civic institutions.

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ArticleProMarket

Corporate Political Responsibility in a Captured Economy

Claudine Schneider and Ed Dolan, 2023

This article argues that corporate governance need to take account of a company's political responsibility and that the Erb Principles provide a helpful framework for doing so.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Corporate Political Responsibility: From Theory to Action

2023

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ArticleFortune

Corporations were never supposed to write the rules

Maureen Kline, 2023

This article argues that "corporations were never supposed to write the rules of the game. Now they need to help make them better for capitalism to survive."

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Could a Voluntary System Really Make a Difference?

Christine Mahoney of the University of Virginia, 2023

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WebsiteHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

CPA’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending: A Practical Guide for Management

Bruce F. Freed, Jeanne Hanna, Karl J. Sandstrom, Center for Political Accountability, 2023

This post summarizes the Center for Political Accountability’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending, which provides best practices for implementing the CPA-Zicklin Model Code. The Model Code identifies a company’s broader societal and democracy obligations and responsibilities that should govern its political spending decisions. This new Guide spells out what concrete steps and actions management should follow as it makes spending decisions and evaluates the accompanying risks.

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Culture Wars, Backlash and the Current Political Climate

Sarah Bonk and Richard Eidlin of Business for America, 2023

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Determining When it is Legitimate to Engage

Martin Reeves of BCG Henderson Institute, 2023

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ToolDebevoise & Plimpton

ESG Investigations Tracker

2023

This tracker provides an overview of federal and state investigations into corporate ESG practices, highlighting lawsuits over misleading ESG claims by firms like BlackRock, government probes requesting information from asset managers and climate organizations, and legislative efforts aimed at limiting ESG considerations in investing. It offers essential insight into the shifting legal and reputational risks companies face in ESG governance.

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WebsiteIGC Institute

Executive Guide to Navigating Our Complex Political, Social and Economic Environment

2023

This guide provides a good overview of how the current environment developed for companies and some tips that business leaders can use to navigate through the conflicting pressures.

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ReportHarvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Financial Implications of Rising Political Risk in the US

Stephen Davis, 2023

This report explores the financial impacts of growing political instability in the U.S., emphasizing how shifts in policy and governance affect corporate decision-making, risk assessment, and long-term value. It outlines the importance of aligning business strategies with evolving political landscapes to protect financial interests.

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ReportThe Heritage Foundation

Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political Economy

Richard Reinsch, 2023

This report argues free enterprise supports both individual prosperity and societal well-being, advocating for competitive markets over government intervention to ensure long-term economic growth.

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ArticleThe Heritage Foundation – Conservative Perspectives Series

Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art as Complements

Alexander William Salter, 2023

This essay explores tensions between classical-liberal and national-conservative visions of markets and the common good. Drawing on Catholic social teaching and Wilhelm Röpke’s political economy, Salter argues that free enterprise and moral order must be treated as complements, not substitutes. He calls for dispersed property, subsidiarity, and policies that support economic independence, civic virtue, and human flourishing.

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Free Enterprise Competitive Markets (A) – Central theme: explores how markets serve the common good when balanced by moral and civic considerations rather than pure efficiency.

Healthy, Stable Systems (A) – Advocates dispersed property and subsidiarity to sustain freedom and prevent concentration of power—key CPR system-stability goals.

Corporate Citizenship (B) – Frames enterprise as a moral actor embedded in community life, with duties to uphold shared well-being beyond profit.

Responsibility (B) – Highlights the moral obligations of firms and policymakers to design markets that sustain families, workers, and civic order.

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ToolClimate-lobbying.com

Global Standards on Responsible Climate Lobbying

2023

This framework guides companies to align lobbying with climate goals, focusing on transparent reporting, board oversight, and annual reviews to support efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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ReportGreenwash Action Lab

Greenwashing 3.0: Why addressing greenwashing remains as important as ever

2023

This report outlines how corporate greenwashing tactics have become more sophisticated, shifting from exaggerated claims to subtler misrepresentations and legal obfuscation. It highlights emerging regulatory gaps, critiques industry self-regulation, and calls for more robust public accountability frameworks to ensure environmental claims align with actual business practices.

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