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| Moderate |
BCE Inc discloses that it engaged with Natural Resources Canada on establishing an industry working group focused on enhancing the energy efficiency of set-top boxes in Canada. It provides a clear description of its lobbying approach, noting its direct participation as an industry representative within that working group and explicitly identifying Natural Resources Canada as its engagement target. The company is also transparent about its desired policy outcomes, seeking to accelerate energy efficiency through a mix of regulatory measures, high-level voluntary programs, and voluntary agreements or codes of conduct. While the detail on this engagement is strong, the scope is limited to this single policy and mechanism, yielding moderate overall transparency around its climate lobbying activities.
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| Limited |
BCE Inc. discloses some links between its climate strategy and its external policy engagement, but it provides only limited insight into how lobbying itself is governed or aligned. The company notes that “Bell’s Corporate Responsibility and Environment (CR&E) team … works closely with all business units within Bell, including the Legal and Government Affairs (GA) teams to seek to ensure that our engagement activities are consistent with our overall climate change strategy,” indicating an internal check that policy engagement (which the GA team typically conducts) reflects climate objectives. Oversight of climate matters generally is assigned to the Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Compliance Committee, which is “co-chaired by the Chief Human Resources Officer … and the Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer,” but the disclosure speaks to climate strategy and risk rather than to monitoring lobbying positions. BCE also states that it “monitor[s] the potential for current and future climate-related legislation, policy and regulations that may affect our business, and report[s] on these findings to our internal HSSEC Oversight Committee,” yet it does not explain any procedure for checking whether its own advocacy or that of its trade associations aligns with its stated climate goals. Finally, when asked whether it has “a public commitment … to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement,” the company answered “No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years,” underscoring the absence of a formal climate-lobbying alignment commitment. Overall, while there is evidence of a team-based process to keep engagement consistent with climate strategy and senior executives are named in related oversight roles, BCE does not disclose a dedicated lobbying policy, review mechanism, trade-association assessment, or board-level sign-off specific to lobbying alignment, so its lobbying governance appears limited.
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