Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | Nippon Steel Corp provides extensive, concrete information about its climate-related public-policy engagement. It names multiple identifiable policies and forums it seeks to influence, including the GX Promotion Act, the GX Decarbonization Electricity Act, the 7th Strategic Energy Plan, Japan’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan and NDC, as well as international standards such as the “revision of ISO, GHG protocol, etc.” and METI-hosted initiatives like the “Study Group on Green Steel for Green Transformation (GX).” The company is equally clear about how it lobbies: it describes direct advocacy such as “lobby the government for regulatory change” to embed life-cycle assessment, formal requests that “the government take measures to support heavy emission-producing industries,” membership on the Strategic Policy Committee under the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, participation in the Government GX Implementation Committee and GX League working groups, and presentations at venues such as the COP-linked “Japan Pavilion Side Event.” Finally, Nippon Steel spells out the policy outcomes it is pursuing, advocating for “policies to achieve carbon neutrality in the materials industry,” the “promotion of nuclear power utilization,” creation of “a market for green steel” that ties emissions reductions to economic value, “reform [of] electric power systems,” and the “development of a roadmap to realize CCUS implementation,” among others. This level of detail across the policies addressed, the mechanisms and targets used, and the specific legislative or regulatory changes sought demonstrates a very high degree of transparency in the company’s climate-policy lobbying. | 4 |