Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]Ericsson has a group-wide unit called Industry and Government Relations (GIR) coordinating all our engagement activities with policy makers and organizations influencing public policy. The unit is responsible for ensuring that all Ericsson engagements on public policy, i.e., not just limited to climate change, are consistent with the Company's official positions and policies and that no single engagement or public policy influence initiative contrasts with our official standpoint(s). Local policy engagements must receive pre-clearance from GIR before they are enacted. Employees belonging to the GIR unit are located in major global political centers such as Washington DC and Brussels.
For climate-related policy engagement in particular, a specialist Position and Standards working group is responsible for formulating and aligning all internal and external positions related to environmental sustainability, including climate change. The working group is owned and driven by Ericsson's Group Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility unit and consists of members of the S&CR unit, Business Areas, Group Function Technology and Ericsson Research. The decisions of the Position and Standards group feeds into the GIR organization which is then responsible for communicating and aligning the positions in policy engagements globally. Individual members of the Positions and Standards working group also serve as representatives of sub-groups or sub-committees of industry associations of which Ericsson is a member, such as for example the Circular Economy working group of Digital Europe. This representation is to ensure Ericsson's official position is reflected in such forums.