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China Steel Corp

ISIN: US1694171026 | United States | North America
Score 3 - Strong
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China Steel Corp discloses a well-defined system for overseeing the alignment of both its own advocacy and that of the trade bodies it belongs to with its climate strategy. It states that "we not only submit suggestions/ ideas directly to policy makers but join policy committee of trade associations to track closely with the new launching/revising acts" and that any proposed engagement "is approved by the board chair" and subsequently reviewed "once for 2-3 months ... by the CSC Energy Conservation and the Carbon Reduction & Neutral Promotion Unit" against monthly milestones, indicating an active monitoring loop for direct lobbying. For indirect lobbying, CSC has adopted "Sustainable Evaluation and Management Guidelines of Organizations," under which it will "reiterate the Company's stance on climate change ... request the organization to adjust its climate change stance within six months ... [and] terminate our cooperation" if mis-alignment persists, and it supports this with a biennial "Survey of Climate Policy Preferences" to measure the positions of all associations it is involved with. Oversight is lodged at the highest level: the "Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee" - composed of directors and chaired by the board - receives reports from the execution teams and "reported the results of annual stakeholder engagement to the Board of Directors," while "related work shall be reported to the Board of Directors regularly after reported to the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee." The company also makes a public commitment that "all our indirect climate advocacy actions remain consistent with the Paris Agreement." Although these disclosures indicate strong governance - clear policies, explicit escalation steps, regular reviews and board-level accountability - the evidence does not show that CSC has published a standalone climate-lobbying alignment report or commissioned an external audit of its advocacy activities, so the transparency of outcomes is more limited.

This assessment is part of the Lobbying Governance Index, covering 8,500 companies scored on whether they have processes to oversee their climate lobbying. See all companies in North America or all companies in United States.