Lobbying Governance
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Mars discloses a structured approach for keeping its climate-related lobbying aligned with its wider climate strategy: it states that "Mars participates in all policy engagement and research that we support, enabling us to ensure these activities remain consistent with our climate change strategy," covering its own advocacy as well as work "with many trade associations around the world." Oversight is explicitly assigned, as "The selection of the organizations and policy initiatives we support is managed by our internal Sustainability Working Group and overseen by our Sustainability Leadership Team," signalling that a named internal body reviews and approves both direct and indirect engagements. Governance measures include participation in the engagements themselves to influence positions and the readiness that "on the rare occasions we cannot reach a compromise, we are willing to advocate independently or adopt internal policies to govern our activities," which indicates an active mechanism for addressing misalignment. The company adds that “in all external engagements, we follow the policies in the Mars Guide to Global Standards, Policies and Practices,” suggesting a common set of rules that must be followed across markets. Taken together, this shows clear policies, oversight structures and a stated process to monitor and correct lobbying alignment, although Mars does not disclose a public lobbying-alignment audit and does not reference board-level supervision, which slightly limits transparency.
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