U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Marty Durbin
President, Global Energy Institute
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Recent work

Promoted to GEI President Jan 2022. Leads Chamber's energy-environment-climate advocacy. Deep trade-association relationships across oil/gas, utilities, industrial manufacturing.

Signals the recipient responds to

Market-based policy advocate
All-of-the-above energy framing
Convening across energy-industry membership

Organisational context

Positions

Chamber's position on VCM disclosure frames the corporate-buyer community's approach. Historically favours market-based climate solutions; cautious on mandated disclosure.

Active initiatives

GEI energy-policy advocacy; coordinated lobbying on federal climate rules; BRT-coordination.

Pressures

Member companies exposed to restatement risk; need for voluntary-integrity framing that protects Chamber membership.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: Property-based per-tonne evidentiary disclosure is the form of the argument most aligned with the Chamber's market-discipline framing. A joint Chamber-LedgerWell technical note framing proof-pack disclosure as pro-market, pro-integrity, technology-neutral aligns with Durbin's advocacy.

Why now: Ongoing policy cycles; GEI member-company pressure on voluntary-market integrity.

The ask: GEI webinar + joint technical note. Chamber endorsement of property-based disclosure as voluntary best-practice.

Chamber

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Target program

Global Energy Institute / Environment and Climate Policy

Why this chamber

The largest business federation in the US. Its position on voluntary carbon market disclosure frames the entire corporate buyer community's approach. The Chamber has historically favored market-based climate solutions but has been cautious on mandated disclosure; property-based proof-pack disclosure is the form of the argument most aligned with the Chamber's market-discipline framing.

The ask

Endorse property-based per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a voluntary best practice in corporate climate reporting, with explicit recognition that it is pro-market, pro-integrity, and technology-neutral.

Deliverable

A joint U.S. Chamber / LedgerWell technical note on property-based carbon disclosure as a market-discipline instrument. Webinar with GEI membership.

The co-dependence network

Trellison Institute

Research and methodology.

Carbon capture research →

Artrellion

Policy and stakeholder engagement.

Carbon release arsenal →

LedgerWell

Operational verification.

Carbon business cases →