Air Liquide scored a 95 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Air Liquide increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Air Liquide forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. Air Liquide is committed to carbon neutrality by 2050, vets vendors for carbon emissions, and lobbied for the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2018. Air Liquide does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees. However, it has not terminated business relationships due to views or beliefs. For these reasons, Air Liquide receives a High Risk rating.