Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]The Group's 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. The sustainable business development team defines and coordinates our strategy for influencing sustainable markets, including issues relevant to climate change (e.g. embodied carbon and energy efficiency) within the framework of discussions with stakeholders. Through our public advocacy activities, we ensure regular monitoring of policy and regulatory developments and provide timely input to future policy developments. We engage to secure or consolidate the role of buildings in global climate commitments. The EHS team and network work to maximise reduction of environmental impacts, with mid- and long-term targets for emissions reduction and energy consumption. Such orientations are communicated to all employees through guidance documents for a consistent approach across the Group.
The Corporate Marketing Department has defined "Public Advocacy and Standards† as one of our marketing pillars dedicated to the enhancement of monitoring of new regulations. Public advocacy actions led by Saint-Gobain are fully transparent and shared with our stakeholders. Our engagement is publicly disclosed in the Transparency Register in Brussels, which provides citizens with a direct, single access to information on who is engaged in activities aiming to influence EU decision-making. Within the Group, the Public Advocacy network fosters exchange and alignment of our positions, as well as best practice sharing. At country level, our public advocacy committees, composed of internal experts, promote pro-active positions to mitigate consequences of climate change and enable adaptation in the building sector. Our objectives to decrease our carbon footprint for scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2030, reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, together with the avoided emissions thanks to the use of our improved insulations solutions are fully in line with worldwide public policies (building energy efficiency, cap and trade and carbon taxes schemes). We engage with policy makers for stronger and more comprehensive building policies that help decrease the whole life carbon impacts of buildings.