Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | Heineken provides a detailed and specific picture of its climate-policy engagement. It names multiple concrete policies it has worked on, including support for the Dutch government’s swift ratification of the Paris Agreement, calls for the European Commission and member-state governments to advance the European Green Deal and embed climate measures in the EU’s COVID-19 recovery package, advocacy for “Improving the European Union Emission Trading System (ETS) to ensure that the system meets the requirements which it was designed to achieve: reducing carbon emissions,” promotion of economy-wide carbon-pricing mechanisms through the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, and backing for “the establishment of a harmonized PEF methodology to be translated into EU legislative directives.” The company also discloses a range of direct and indirect lobbying channels and the targets of those efforts: open letters to the European Commission and national governments, formal approaches to the Dutch government on 19 June 2020, “regular meetings with politicians and policy makers within the EU” through the European Round Table of Industrialists, and coordinated advocacy via platforms such as RE-Source and Brewers of Europe. Finally, it is explicit about the outcomes it seeks—implementation of carbon-pricing schemes, alignment of COVID-19 stimulus with Paris and SDG goals, reforms that accelerate corporate power-purchase agreements for renewables, and policy changes that stimulate low-carbon investment—moving well beyond broad aspirations to specify the regulatory changes it wants to see. Together, these disclosures demonstrate a comprehensive level of transparency around Heineken’s climate-related lobbying activities. | 4 |