Asahi Group Holdings Ltd – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Limited	Asahi Group discloses a clear governance structure for managing overall climate strategy, noting that "The Asahi Group has established the GS Committee to draft and supervise sustainability strategies, including climate change" and that this body "is chaired by the CEO" and reports to the Board; however, virtually all of the detail relates to climate-risk oversight rather than to the company’s political engagement. The only reference that explicitly links policy engagement to climate objectives is the statement that the company has "a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement… Yes." While this commitment signals an intention to align advocacy with Paris goals, the evidence does not describe any concrete process for monitoring or reviewing direct or trade-association lobbying, name a responsible individual or committee for such alignment, or explain how potential misalignments would be addressed. In short, Asahi provides a high-level pledge but does not disclose the mechanisms, oversight steps, or accountability measures that would demonstrate a structured lobbying-governance framework. View Sources	D

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Limited

Asahi Group discloses a clear governance structure for managing overall climate strategy, noting that "The Asahi Group has established the GS Committee to draft and supervise sustainability strategies, including climate change" and that this body "is chaired by the CEO" and reports to the Board; however, virtually all of the detail relates to climate-risk oversight rather than to the company’s political engagement. The only reference that explicitly links policy engagement to climate objectives is the statement that the company has "a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement… Yes." While this commitment signals an intention to align advocacy with Paris goals, the evidence does not describe any concrete process for monitoring or reviewing direct or trade-association lobbying, name a responsible individual or committee for such alignment, or explain how potential misalignments would be addressed. In short, Asahi provides a high-level pledge but does not disclose the mechanisms, oversight steps, or accountability measures that would demonstrate a structured lobbying-governance framework.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Limited	Asahi Group Holdings provides a basic but focused disclosure of its climate-policy lobbying. It identifies one specific policy engagement—the Japanese government’s 2030 renewable-energy target—and explains that, acting through the RE100 initiative, it directly asked the government to lift the target from 22-24 percent to 50 percent in order to advance Japan’s green-growth strategy. This single example clarifies both the mechanism (a direct request) and the policymaking target (the Japanese government), and it states the concrete outcome the company seeks (a higher renewables share) together with the reason for that position. However, the company does not mention any additional policies or methods beyond this one case, leaving its overall lobbying transparency limited in scope.	D