In what way do companies have influence on climate policy?

Companies continue to exert significant influence on climate policy through their trade associations or through direct lobbying. Companies also exert influence through political donations and additional business group affiliations at local, state, federal and international levels. The opportunity for greater influence on climate policy is for companies to clearly connect their sustainability work and values to the larger societal objective that work is in service of and lobby hard enough to counter the obstruction coming from defenders of the status quo.