Cie de Saint-Gobain SA

Saint-Gobain demonstrates a structured governance approach to its climate lobbying, with "The Group's Chief Sustainability Officer leads and coordinates actions across the Group, with a team in charge of sustainable business development (including a Public Affairs team) and the EHS department, managing the Group environmental targets, including CO2." This organization ensures "all actions and projects are in line with our climate commitments," and the sustainable business development team "defines and coordinates our strategy for influencing sustainable markets, including issues relevant to climate change." "Through our public advocacy activities, we ensure regular monitoring of policy and regulatory developments and provide timely input to future policy developments," reflecting a clear process to oversee and align direct lobbying. The Corporate Marketing Department's pillar of "Public Advocacy and Standards" and the fact that "public advocacy actions led by Saint-Gobain are fully transparent and shared with our stakeholders," with disclosure in the "Transparency Register in Brussels," demonstrate transparent engagement. The internal "Public Advocacy network" and "public advocacy committees, composed of internal experts" provide mechanisms for review and alignment across regions, and the company confirms "Yes" to having a position statement to conduct its engagement "in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement." However, we found no evidence of processes governing indirect lobbying via trade associations, nor any publicly available audit of its climate-lobbying activities, suggesting incomplete oversight of its indirect policy influence.