Lobbying Governance
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ASE Technology Holding discloses an end-to-end governance system that explicitly manages and audits both its direct and indirect climate-related lobbying. The company explains that it has established a management system that covers the global sites of ASEH to ensure that our lobbying activities and participation in trade associations comply with our corporate policies on sustainability and climate change, and aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Direct advocacy must pass a gate-keeping process in which the lobbying campaign must first be evaluated by the Social Involvement Task Force and submitted to the ASEH Corporate Sustainability Committee (CSC) for final approval, after which the CSC is obligated to report the status regularly to the board of directors, showing clear monitoring and escalation. For indirect lobbying, ASEH sets out a structured annual review: Evaluating and monitoring our engagement with, and activities of trade associations Classifying associations into those who comply with the Paris Agreement and those who do not We would engage in discussions to seek alignment within 2 years, and would cancel our membership if alignment fails. The 2023 report publicly discloses the outcome of this review, noting participation in 140 trade associations Number of Trade Associations in Full Alignment with ASEH Goals: 22, and confirms that no partially or fully misaligned bodies were identified, demonstrating that the assessment is not merely theoretical. Oversight responsibility is clearly assigned: Dtuang Wang, Chief Administration Officer (CAO) leads the Social Involvement Task Force, which provides a status report to the Corporate Sustainability Committee (CSC) comprised of board directors, and the CSC in turn provides regular reports to the board of directors. Although the company reports that ASEH did not conduct any direct lobbying in 2023, the presence of a pre-approval workflow, progress tracking rules, and board reporting indicates that processes are in place should direct lobbying resume. Publishing the detailed trade-association alignment table and the management procedures amounts to an in-depth lobbying alignment report, signalling transparency and active stewardship. We found no disclosure of an external third-party assurance of the review, but the breadth of internal audit, board-level oversight and publicly released evaluation results indicate very strong governance of climate lobbying activities.
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