Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]Limiting global warming to 1.5C will require transformational change across industry, government, and wider society. Mars recognizes our responsibility to address the environmental and social impacts of our business. Tracking and reducing GHG emissions to lessen our climate change impact are key aspects of our Sustainable in a Generation (SIG) Plan, and provide important opportunities to help drive momentum for global climate action. Mars will continue its advocacy for policies to help deliver against the ambitions of the Paris Agreement.
Mars participates in all policy engagement and research that we support, enabling us to ensure these activities remain consistent with our climate change strategy. As paying members of the organizations we support, we can influence their positions, policies and research objectives. We work with many trade associations around the world, and hold leadership positions in some of them. On some issues, our views are different from these organizations. On the rare occasions we cannot reach a compromise, we are willing to advocate independently or adopt internal policies to govern our activities. The Mars Associates who work on climate action policy initiatives are involved with multiple organizations, ensuring our positions are consistently communicated across all activities.
The selection of the organizations and policy initiatives we support is managed by our internal Sustainability Working Group and overseen by our Sustainability Leadership Team. This is intended to ensure that we work only with those organizations whose positions and policies are consistent and supportive of our own approach.
In all external engagements, we follow the policies in the Mars Guide to Global Standards, Policies and Practices, which help us to act with integrity, honesty and in line with The Five Principles. We make sure all relevant Associates understand and abide by these policies. Further, we ensure a common approach to our climate engagement activities across business divisions and geographies by developing global policies and positions to guide our engagement across markets.