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| Comprehensive |
Stora Enso provides comprehensive and transparent detail on its climate lobbying activities. It clearly names the specific measures it engages on, including the “Fit for 55 climate package with a focus on Land Use Land Use Change and Forest revision,” the “Deforestation Regulation,” the “Nature Restoration Regulation,” and the “EU Taxonomy,” among others. The company also outlines its lobbying mechanisms—direct engagement with “the Commission, European Parliament as well as member states,” responding to “EU consultations,” and providing “constructive and detailed evidence”—identifying precisely how and with whom it interacts. Finally, it is explicit about the outcomes it seeks, advocating for “sustainable forest management” to “enhance biodiversity in the forest, while delivering optimum carbon storage as well as raw materials to replace fossil-based products,” opposing the merger of the agricultural and forest sectors in the Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forests policy, and supporting the Deforestation Regulation with the goal of achieving “a more workable and therefore more ambitious definition of deforestation in the regulation.”
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| Moderate |
Stora Enso has established a structured governance process to align its lobbying with its climate strategy, coordinating "all consultation responses, position papers, and issues where we engage" through a Public Affairs Forum and elevating strategic or divergent issues to a Steering Group that "sets the priorities for Public Affairs and is the ultimate decision?making body". The companys Group Public Affairs team "leads and coordinates the engagement with policy makers, and thus ensures that all engagement activities are consistent with our overall climate change strategy", encompassing both direct advocacy and indirect engagement as it "works through relevant national, regional, and international trade associations and membership organisations" and "continuously monitors, evaluates, and anticipates political decisions, public policy direction, and amended regulations" in areas of business importance. Lobbying transparency is further supported by disclosures in the EU Transparency Register, where Stora Ensos "position papers and responses are uploaded and available" alongside financial data for Group Public Affairs. It has been disclosed that trade associations, such as Business Europe and Confederation of European Paper Industries (Cepi), are lobbying on climate policy. It has been stated that its alignment with BusinessEurope is "mixed" and that "we attempted to influence them but they did not change their position". However, this one disclosure does not constitute a clear governance process to address trade association misalignment. The company does not disclose any dedicated audit or third?party review of its climate?lobbying alignment.
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