Cie de Saint-Gobain SA – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Moderate	Saint-Gobain demonstrates a structured governance approach to its climate lobbying, with The Groups Chief Sustainability Officer leads and coordinates actions across the Group, with a team in charge of sustainable business development (including a Public Affairs team) and the EHS department, managing the Group environmental targets, including CO2. This organization ensures all actions and projects are in line with our climate commitments, and the sustainable business development team defines and coordinates our strategy for influencing sustainable markets, including issues relevant to climate change. Through our public advocacy activities, we ensure regular monitoring of policy and regulatory developments and provide timely input to future policy developments, reflecting a clear process to oversee and align direct lobbying. The Corporate Marketing Departments pillar of Public Advocacy and Standards and the fact that public advocacy actions led by Saint-Gobain are fully transparent and shared with our stakeholders, with disclosure in the Transparency Register in Brussels, demonstrate transparent engagement. The internal Public Advocacy network and public advocacy committees, composed of internal experts provide mechanisms for review and alignment across regions, and the company confirms Yes to having a position statement to conduct its engagement in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, we found no evidence of processes governing indirect lobbying via trade associations, nor any publicly available audit of its climate-lobbying activities, suggesting incomplete oversight of its indirect policy influence. View Sources	2

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Moderate

Saint-Gobain demonstrates a structured governance approach to its climate lobbying, with The Groups Chief Sustainability Officer leads and coordinates actions across the Group, with a team in charge of sustainable business development (including a Public Affairs team) and the EHS department, managing the Group environmental targets, including CO2. This organization ensures all actions and projects are in line with our climate commitments, and the sustainable business development team defines and coordinates our strategy for influencing sustainable markets, including issues relevant to climate change. Through our public advocacy activities, we ensure regular monitoring of policy and regulatory developments and provide timely input to future policy developments, reflecting a clear process to oversee and align direct lobbying. The Corporate Marketing Departments pillar of Public Advocacy and Standards and the fact that public advocacy actions led by Saint-Gobain are fully transparent and shared with our stakeholders, with disclosure in the Transparency Register in Brussels, demonstrate transparent engagement. The internal Public Advocacy network and public advocacy committees, composed of internal experts provide mechanisms for review and alignment across regions, and the company confirms Yes to having a position statement to conduct its engagement in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, we found no evidence of processes governing indirect lobbying via trade associations, nor any publicly available audit of its climate-lobbying activities, suggesting incomplete oversight of its indirect policy influence.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Comprehensive	Saint-Gobain demonstrates comprehensive transparency in its climate lobbying disclosures. It clearly names the exact regulatory frameworks it engages with, including the EU’s Renovation Wave (through revisions to the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive), the Effort Sharing Regulation within the Fit for 55 package and the EU Emissions Trading System for 2021-2030, along with its role in developing the WGBC BuildingLife Roadmap. The company describes engaging with "lobbying partners, international institutions and governments" and outlines its channels—through EuroACE, EU-ASE, Eurima, its Public Advocacy network, the Renovate Europe Campaign and local Green Building Councils—providing input and supporting partner positions while contributing to the implementation of EU directives. Saint-Gobain also sets out clear outcomes sought, backing ambitious binding energy efficiency targets for 2030, renovation obligations for public buildings, phased introduction of Minimum Energy Performance Requirements, improved Energy Performance Certificates, free and dynamic allocations under the EU-ETS, expansion of the Innovation Fund and adaptation of the ETS Directive to changing economic conditions. This comprehensive level of detail demonstrates a high level of transparency around its climate lobbying.	4