Pernod Ricard SA

Lobbying Governance

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**Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy**
To ensure that our engagement activities are consistent with our climate change strategy, we engage in extensive collaboration with the Public Affairs, S&R and Operations teams. This allows us to best select our engagements, ensuring that our messages are well aligned with our strategy, roadmap and ambitions, as well as our reduction targets. [...] **Have you evaluated whether your organization's engagement with this trade association is aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement?** Yes, we have evaluated, and it is aligned

https://www.pernod-ricard.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Climate%20Change%20Response%202022.pdf

##### (4.11.8) Describe the process your organization has in place to ensure that your external engagement activities are consistent with your environmental commitments and/or transition plan

_Affairs, S&R and Operations teams. This allows us to best select our engagements, ensuring that our messages are well aligned with our strategy, roadmap and_ _ambitions, as well as our reduction targets. Moreover, all Pernod Ricard employees are expected to apply a strong sense of ethics to their daily activities, including_ _any lobbying initiatives they may undertake to influence policy making and decision taking that affects the Group and the industry. Employees have to ensure that all_ _lobbying initiatives are consistent with the Group's CSR commitments. Pernod Ricard encourages a culture of trust, openness and transparency, where all employees_ _can raise their genuine concerns in confidence. The Group's Code of Business Conduct advocates a Speak-up policy, calling on all employees to inform management_ _of any suspicions they may have. This may relate to a practice or situation deemed to be contrary to or inconsistent with this Code, associated policies or any legal or_ _regulatory standard. Pernod Ricard launched a Group-wide system titled Speak-Up. This allows stakeholders who wish to report such misconducts to the Group to do_ _so in a safe and confidential manner. Hosted by a third party, it is available 24/7. Reports that are deemed to be filed in good faith can be subject to internal_ _investigation following a preliminary assessment from the Integrity Committee. This is comprised of the following Group-level functions: Legal, Internal Audit, HR and_ _S&R. This Speak-Up Policy also includes the possibility to report, in good faith, any potential violation of environmental practices._"
"We changed their position by participating in the consultations and governance bodies of these associations that define their priorities and positions according to their statutory rules. [...] We participate in the consultations and governance bodies of these associations that define their priorities and positions according to their statutory rules.

https://www.pernod-ricard.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/CDP%20Climate%20%26%20Water%20responses%202024_0.pdf

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]To ensure that our engagement activities are consistent with our climate change strategy, we engage in extensive collaboration with the Public Affairs, S&R and Operations teams. This allows us to best select our engagements, ensuring that our messages are well aligned with our strategy, roadmap and ambitions, as well as our reduction targets.

CDP Questionnaire Response 2022

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]Yes

CDP Questionnaire Response 2023