Auto Trader Group PLC

- We lobby Government and share our data and insights to help guide policy on how to decarbonise the automotive industry. [...] - Our Corporate Responsibility Committee oversees our environmental commitments and work is ongoing to reduce our carbon emissions across all scopes.

We have established our Corporate Responsibility Committee to sit alongside our Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees. Whilst ESG-related topics are covered in all Committees, this is a formal Committee of the Board with the overarching goal of monitoring our corporate responsibility initiatives and sustainability targets. The Committee, chaired by Jeni Mundy, plays a crucial role in overseeing the progress towards fulfilling our ESG strategy and ensuring that our targets and goals remain ambitious and realistic. Responsibility for putting our ESG strategy into action spans across the business through specific functions and through our individual guilds and networks, which are empowered to drive change within the organisation. [...] We lobby Government and share our data and insights to help guide policy on how to decarbonise the automotive industry. [...] Our Corporate Responsibility Committee oversees our environmental commitments and work is ongoing to reduce our carbon emissions across all scopes.

Within our marketplace we remain committed to building our new car experience. Franchise customers have been able to advertise physical new cars for a number of years, and we ended the year with c.2,100 paying retailers on this product (March 2023: c.1,900). Alongside this, we have launched a product allowing manufacturers operating an agency model to advertise new cars directly to consumers nationally. [...] We have continued to share our data and insight with retailers, the industry and Government to help inform public policy and regulation to support the mass adoption of EVs. During the period we continued our programme of political engagement, which included giving evidence to a House of Lords Committee, presenting our data to key ministers, and supporting Transport for London's Ultra Low Emission Zone ('ULEZ') expansion and the associated scrappage scheme.

- We lobby Government and share our data and insights to help guide policy on how to decarbonise the automotive industry. [...] - Our Corporate Responsibility Committee oversees our environmental commitments and work is ongoing to reduce our carbon emissions across all scopes.

We have established our Corporate Responsibility Committee to sit alongside our Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees. Whilst ESG-related topics are covered in all Committees, this is a formal Committee of the Board with the overarching goal of monitoring our corporate responsibility initiatives and sustainability targets. The Committee, chaired by Jeni Mundy, plays a crucial role in overseeing the progress towards fulfilling our ESG strategy and ensuring that our targets and goals remain ambitious and realistic. Responsibility for putting our ESG strategy into action spans across the business through specific functions and through our individual guilds and networks, which are empowered to drive change within the organisation. [...] We lobby Government and share our data and insights to help guide policy on how to decarbonise the automotive industry. [...] Our Corporate Responsibility Committee oversees our environmental commitments and work is ongoing to reduce our carbon emissions across all scopes.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]We are committed to supporting consumers, automotive retailers and the industry with the mass adoption of electric vehicles and in a timeframe that meets the government's 2030 ban on the selling of new petrol or diesel cars. We therefore share data and insights to help the key government department's to inform the policies needed to support these goals. We know we positively influenced the recent charging infrastructure policy, and are quoted on the government's website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/common-misconceptions-about-electric-vehicles/common-misconceptions-about-electric-vehicles. We are also committed to becoming a net zero business by 2040, and have worked on a reduction plan which we plan to communicate shortly.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your external engagement activities are consistent with your climate commitments and/or climate transition plan?[…]Our head of Communications and Commercial Director, who are the primary people engaging with policy makers, are members of our net zero working group and also our environmental strategy working group - they are therefore aware of our climate commitments.

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years