Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | Hamilton Lane provides a fair amount of detail on the substance of its climate-policy work but is less explicit about how and where it engages policymakers. It identifies two concrete government strategies it has analysed and sought to influence—Kenya’s “Vision 2030” development strategy and the 2018-22 “National Climate Change Action Plan”—demonstrating that its lobbying focuses on identifiable public-sector initiatives. It also sets out several precise objectives for those engagements, including the removal of value-added tax on clean cookstoves, elimination of fuel duty on ethanol used for cooking, promotion of reforestation projects, incentives for climate-smart agriculture and helping Kenya secure funding for clean-energy and low-carbon transport projects. However, its description of lobbying channels is comparatively general: it notes that it prepared Kenya’s second National Communication to the UNFCCC and “led consultations with stakeholders across government, industry, agriculture and academia,” but does not detail specific meetings, correspondence or name the government bodies or officials approached. Overall, the company is clear about what it is trying to achieve and which policies it addresses, yet provides only limited insight into the precise mechanisms and targets of its advocacy, yielding a moderate level of transparency. | 2 |