Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]3M has long been a leader in addressing both challenges and opportunities presented by climate change and energy conservation. Our proactive leadership is best defined by six areas of action:
• Executive-level commitment to these important topics and our related principles, policies, commitments, and risk-mitigation planning efforts, including membership in RE100, the global corporate initiative committed to 100% renewable electricity by 2050
• Collaborations with organizations that are committed to the important work of addressing climate change, including the Global Alliance for Sustainable Energy, TPG Rise Climate, the TCFD, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Industry-leading efforts to measure and reduce our own GHG emissions, including a goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050
• Extensive public policy engagement on both climate change and energy conservation
• A decade's-long track record of improving energy efficiency at our sites
• Serving our customers through a wide range of innovative products that help them improve energy efficiency and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions
3M actively participates in public policy and legislative advocacy, or "lobbying.† 3M's Government Affairs organization coordinates and oversees 3M's lobbying and political activities. We believe that transparency with respect to the consideration, process, and oversight of our engagement with lawmakers is important to our shareholders, and we continuously make efforts to give our shareholders useful information about our public policy engagement. Since 2007, we have voluntarily published a detailed explanation of the company's political activities in our Lobbying and Political Activities Principle. Within the Lobbying and Political Activities Governance document, we provide links to the reports the 3M Political Action Committee files monthly with the U.S. Federal Election Commission and the company's quarterly Lobbying Disclosure reports, as well as a detailed list of our contributions to U.S. state candidates and political parties and contributions to "527† political organizations. We also disclose the trade associations 3M has joined in which $25,000 or more of the dues are allocated for lobbying purposes by the trade association. We believe that these disclosures on our website, which exceed the disclosures required by law, offer transparency regarding the company's public policy engagement and political activities.