Asahi Kasei Corp – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Moderate	Asahi Kasei has established dedicated bodies to oversee the alignment of its external engagement with its climate strategy, with “all external engagement … managed by the Global Environment Committee (members: officers of group operating companies), Global Environment Action Committee … and the RC Promotion Committees of operating companies,” ensuring that “engagement with third parties is reported beforehand to the respective committees, the chairs of which provide guidance as needed to ensure that the engagement is consistent with overall company strategy.” Additionally, “all our collaborative activities are centrally monitored by the Corporate Planning Department, which formulates and promotes our Medium-term Management Plan, including the climate transition plan, and they are harmonized to avoid any contradictions,” with management-level judgment sought on key matters. While these processes demonstrate formal oversight and a mechanism to review engagement for consistency, the company does not disclose a specific climate-lobbying review process, nor does it outline how it actively aligns indirect lobbying through trade or industry associations, and it does not name an individual with exclusive responsibility for climate lobbying alignment. View Sources	C

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Moderate

Asahi Kasei has established dedicated bodies to oversee the alignment of its external engagement with its climate strategy, with “all external engagement … managed by the Global Environment Committee (members: officers of group operating companies), Global Environment Action Committee … and the RC Promotion Committees of operating companies,” ensuring that “engagement with third parties is reported beforehand to the respective committees, the chairs of which provide guidance as needed to ensure that the engagement is consistent with overall company strategy.” Additionally, “all our collaborative activities are centrally monitored by the Corporate Planning Department, which formulates and promotes our Medium-term Management Plan, including the climate transition plan, and they are harmonized to avoid any contradictions,” with management-level judgment sought on key matters. While these processes demonstrate formal oversight and a mechanism to review engagement for consistency, the company does not disclose a specific climate-lobbying review process, nor does it outline how it actively aligns indirect lobbying through trade or industry associations, and it does not name an individual with exclusive responsibility for climate lobbying alignment.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Limited	Asahi Kasei provides some insight into its climate-policy engagement, but the detail is limited. It discloses that its Chairman sat on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s “Study Group for Designing a Growth-Oriented, Resource-Autonomous Circular Economy,” and that this work focused on the Act on the Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources (the 3R Law) in Japan. Through that forum the company supported consideration of amendments to the 3R Law “to establish a system to accelerate linkages between the ‘arteries and veins’ of material cycles,” signalling the policy change it hopes to see. Beyond this single example, however, the company does not name any additional climate-related laws or regulations it has lobbied, nor does it explain other routes of engagement such as letters, consultations, or work through industry associations. Likewise, it does not set out further concrete legislative outcomes it is pursuing. The disclosure therefore offers only a narrow snapshot of Asahi Kasei’s climate lobbying activity.	D