Climate Policy Priorities and Advocacy
Our Guiding Principles
Entergy’s view that climate change poses a significant risk to our region, our business, our society,and our planet has not changed since we adopted our first carbon dioxide emissions reduction
goal in 2001.
We applaud the Biden Administration for quickly re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement andwill continue to make the Agreement's goal the minimum standard for our own decarbonization
strategy. At the same time, we also support the adoption of effective adaptation and resiliency
strategies for more vulnerable areas. Entergy has developed guiding principles that we believe
should drive national and international climate change policies. These principles were firstpublished in our 2007 sustainability report.
Today, the company’s position on carbon mitigation policy is guided by the following principles:
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Climate change presents a risk to our corporate assets and to our customers, employees,communities, and owners.
Optimally, greenhouse gas control mechanisms should be economy-wide and send astable, predictable price signal to stimulate investment in efficient, low-carbontechnologies and to take advantage of the potential net emission reductions from theelectrification of other sectors of the economy.
As a society, we need to employ advanced technologies to electrify the more carbonintensive transportation, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy, even as theelectricity sector continues to work to further decarbonize the generation fleet.
We need to act across the entire global economy to seek balance between CO2 emission
sources and sinks and to increase the resilience of both our natural and built
environments.
We support efforts to engage our stakeholders and partners in the communities we serveto evaluate and deploy adaptation efforts, resiliency investments, and naturalsequestration opportunities.
We support built-in, permanent protection for low-income customers in any greenhousegas control mechanism.

How We Engage
For nearly two decades, Entergy has advocated for national action on climate issues based on
similar principles. Entergy has engaged policymakers directly and through collaborative groups
and trade associations. We also have engaged with communities within our utility service areaon strategies for adaptation and resiliency.
We are committed to participating constructively in the political and legislative process, as webelieve such participation is essential to our company’s long-term success. We lobby in support

of our strategic priorities, including our climate policy priorities, through internal and externallobbyists, and we belong to trade associations that engage in lobbying. Our senior executives also
advocate for climate policies that align with our strategic priorities, both within associations andorganizations to which we belong and directly with key policymakers.
Entergy’s Board has adopted a Public Policy and Advocacy Policy that outline our principles
governing political and lobbying activities, including our policy prohibiting corporate
contributions directly to federal, state, or local candidates. Annually, we publish an Advocacy andPolitical Contributions Report listing our contributions to political and social welfareorganizations and the portion of dues paid to trade associations that are used for lobbying
activities where dues equal or exceed $50,000. The report also explains where detailed
information concerning our lobbying activities, as well as the activities of our employee politicalaction committees, may be found. See our Corporate Governance webpage for these documents.
Although we belong to trade associations, our most important actions to influence climate policy
are undertaken by us directly, through our own lobbying activities, or through collaborative
groups or organizations focused on climate change or environmental issues. We typicallyparticipate in trade associations for reasons that extend beyond their lobbying and advocacy
activities, and we do not agree with all the positions taken by those trade associations to which
we belong. However, within those trade associations we advocate for climate policies that alignwith our strategic priorities. This may take a variety of forms, depending on the degree of ourinvolvement in the organization, ranging from responding to surveys on climate policy toparticipating on key committees and/or in the organization’s leadership. We also consider theadvocacy positions taken by trade associations on climate policy and other issues when deciding
whether to join or to continue our membership.

Governance and OversightEntergy’s Board of Directors plays an important role in our public policy engagement and politicalparticipation. The Corporate Governance Committee of the Board is apprised of key public policy
issues that may affect Entergy’s business and is responsible for ensuring alignment of thecompany’s policy advocacy efforts with Entergy’s policies and values. At least annually, ourCorporate Governance Committee reviews the report on our political contributions andpayments to trade associations that use a portion of the dues for lobbying activity before it ispublished and receives an update on our lobbying activities.
Within Entergy management, the company’s federal lobbying activities are overseen by Entergy’s
Senior Vice President — Federal Policy, Regulatory and Governmental Affairs, who also approves
the participation or the engagement of individuals and/or entities that perform any federal
lobbying activities on our behalf. At the state and local level, these activities must be approvedby the applicable subsidiary’s vice president of external or governmental affairs. All lobbyists
engaged by Entergy are carefully vetted and selected by the senior governmental affairs officer
in the appropriate entity. As part of their contractual agreement, external lobbyists also must
agree to fully comply with all laws and regulations as they apply in the political jurisdiction where
they are engaged.