JGC Holdings Corp

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Comprehensive	JGC Holdings Corp discloses a wide-ranging and detailed picture of its climate-policy advocacy. It names several specific initiatives and policy processes it engages in, including the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s GX League, the Public-Private Council for Promoting Sustainable Aviation Fuel, the Fuel Ammonia Introduction Public-Private Council and Japan’s 2050 Carbon Neutral and 2030 GHG-reduction strategies, demonstrating clarity about the concrete policy forums it seeks to influence. The company also spells out how it lobbies: by taking seats in ministerial councils and working groups, collaborating in government-subsidised demonstration projects with bodies such as NEDO, and providing technical input and formal requests during council meetings—thereby identifying both the mechanisms and the responsible ministries, agencies and other stakeholders targeted. Finally, it is explicit about the outcomes it wants: legislative measures to enable fuel-ammonia deployment, CO2-reduction standards and investment incentives for SAF, rules that recognise Japanese companies’ overseas emissions reductions through the GX League, and projects that deliver specified hydrogen volumes paired with CCUS. This detailed disclosure of the policies addressed, the means of engagement and the concrete regulatory or market changes sought indicates a comprehensive level of transparency in the company’s climate-related lobbying activities.	4

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Moderate	JGC Holdings Corp has a defined process to ensure its external engagement activities align with its climate commitments: when joining any industry or trade body it requires a “社外団体入会承認願” that clearly states “事業内容や入会理由,” and this application must receive sign-off from the department head through to the chairman, during which it is assessed whether the “団体の活動が当社グループの戦略と一致するか.” The Planning and Public Relations Department “企画渉外部にて管理し、活動状況についてもモニタリングしている,” with updates on industry association activities shared across relevant business units. Oversight is further supported by the Sustainability Committee, “chaired by the Representative Director, Chairman and CEO,” which “deliberates on the formulation, promotion, evaluation, and improvement of policies and action plans in the field of sustainability” and submits an annual report to the Board, with subsidiary implementation coordinated through the Sustainability Promotion Liaison Meeting. However, we found no evidence of a governance process for the company’s direct lobbying activities or a specific individual or formal body charged solely with overseeing its lobbying engagement with policymakers.	2