SinoPac Financial Holdings Co Ltd

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Moderate	SinoPac Financial Holdings provides a moderate level of transparency on its climate-related lobbying. It names the Taiwanese “Green Energy Policy” as the main focus of its engagement and describes how it seeks to shape that policy by organising briefings and seminars on green-energy finance, participating in industry associations and exhibitions, and arranging syndicated loans for solar power projects, targeting local governments, the Financial Supervisory Commission and other competent authorities. The company also explains the outcomes it is pursuing: facilitating private-sector participation in renewable energy, helping project developers raise capital, expanding its own green-energy business and aligning its actions with the Paris Agreement. However, only one specific policy is identified and the desired legislative changes are described in broad terms rather than with concrete amendments or quantitative targets, leaving some gaps in the overall picture.	2

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
None	SinoPac Financial Holdings discloses robust oversight of its sustainable engagement with investee companies but provides no information on governance of any lobbying activities. The company affirms, “The Company and its subsidiaries shall proactively engage with investee or financing companies on sustainable issues to understand their ESG achievements and plans,” and details that “the development of sustainable financial business of the Company is overseen by the Board of Directors,” with a “Sustainable Development Committee … in charge of managing the risks and impacts … on the economy, environment, and society.” While these statements illustrate a formal structure for ESG stewardship, we found no evidence of a policy or process to govern lobbying or policy advocacy, whether direct or indirect, nor any individual or formal body tasked with oversight or review of lobbying alignment with its climate commitments.	0