Obayashi Corp – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Moderate	Obayashi Corporation outlines a structured internal framework that ensures its climate-related policy positions are considered in its engagement with industry bodies, centering oversight at the Board level and through dedicated committees. For example, its "Representative Director, President, and CEO serves as the chairperson of the Sustainability Committee, which examines policies for addressing sustainability issues, including climate change, makes recommendations to the Board of Directors, and evaluates the implementation of these policies," and that same executive chairs the Management Meeting where "important matters regarding sustainability issues, including climate change, are reported, discussed, instructed, and resolved." The company also embeds its indirect lobbying approach through trade associations by having members of its Environmental Management Expert Committee participate in JFCC subcommittees, ensuring that "discussions and other materials related to climate change issues from the JFCC Environmental Committee, Environmental Management Subcommittee, and Global Warming Countermeasures Subcommittee are reported and shared through processes involving our Board of Directors, Management Meeting, Business Planning Committee, and Environmental Management Expert Committee, ensuring alignment with Obayashi Corporation’s climate change strategy." When misalignment is identified, "our members may express their opinions at the JFCC Environmental Committee, Environmental Management Subcommittee, and Global Warming Countermeasures Subcommittee to indirectly influence public policy and work toward alignment with Obayashi Corporation’s climate change strategy," and support for the Japan Climate Leaders Partnership is made "with the approval of our Board of Directors." However, the company does not disclose any direct lobbying governance mechanisms or any third-party audit of its climate lobbying practices, indicating that while its indirect lobbying governance is well defined, its oversight of direct lobbying remains unspecified. View Sources	C

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Moderate

Obayashi Corporation outlines a structured internal framework that ensures its climate-related policy positions are considered in its engagement with industry bodies, centering oversight at the Board level and through dedicated committees. For example, its "Representative Director, President, and CEO serves as the chairperson of the Sustainability Committee, which examines policies for addressing sustainability issues, including climate change, makes recommendations to the Board of Directors, and evaluates the implementation of these policies," and that same executive chairs the Management Meeting where "important matters regarding sustainability issues, including climate change, are reported, discussed, instructed, and resolved." The company also embeds its indirect lobbying approach through trade associations by having members of its Environmental Management Expert Committee participate in JFCC subcommittees, ensuring that "discussions and other materials related to climate change issues from the JFCC Environmental Committee, Environmental Management Subcommittee, and Global Warming Countermeasures Subcommittee are reported and shared through processes involving our Board of Directors, Management Meeting, Business Planning Committee, and Environmental Management Expert Committee, ensuring alignment with Obayashi Corporation’s climate change strategy." When misalignment is identified, "our members may express their opinions at the JFCC Environmental Committee, Environmental Management Subcommittee, and Global Warming Countermeasures Subcommittee to indirectly influence public policy and work toward alignment with Obayashi Corporation’s climate change strategy," and support for the Japan Climate Leaders Partnership is made "with the approval of our Board of Directors." However, the company does not disclose any direct lobbying governance mechanisms or any third-party audit of its climate lobbying practices, indicating that while its indirect lobbying governance is well defined, its oversight of direct lobbying remains unspecified.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
None	No evidence found	E