Lobbying Governance
| Overall Assessment | Analysis | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate |
Avient Corp has put in place a collaborative oversight mechanism to align its policy influence with its climate-change strategy, led by a cross-functional group of leaders that ensures “our activities that influence policy are also consistent with our overall climate change strategy.” This nexus point convenes its policy group and climate-related strategy managers so they “have the opportunity to collaborate and ensure consistency,” and oversight flows through its VP of Sustainability and the Sustainability Council up to the Board of Directors, which provides a clear ownership structure (“the VP of Sustainability works up through the Board of Directors and down through the organization via the Sustainability Council to ensure that our policy action and climate-change strategy are aligned and consistent”). The company also affirms a public commitment to conduct its engagement activities “in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.” However, Avient does not disclose a formal process for reviewing or auditing lobbying positions, nor specify how it manages or aligns indirect lobbying via industry or trade associations, and it provides no details on ongoing monitoring metrics or periodic audits of its climate lobbying alignment. This indicates that while governance roles and collaboration channels are defined, the framework for comprehensive monitoring and management of both direct and indirect lobbying remains unclear.
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