Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | Akbank TAS provides a detailed picture of its climate-policy engagement. It identifies specific measures it has worked on—including the Carbon Price Communiqué, the Declaration on Sustainable Finance, the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency’s Sustainable Banking Strategic Plan (2022-2025), and technical working groups on Heat-Map Methodologies and the Green Asset Ratio—giving clear titles that allow each policy to be readily traced. The bank also explains how and where it lobbies: it reports providing “thought and comments during the development of [the] Sustainable Banking Strategic Plan… prepared by [the] Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency in Turkey,” attending a “Sustainable Finance meeting and giving opinions on the Environmental Label study,” and actively taking part in dedicated working groups, thereby revealing both the mechanisms (written input, meetings, working-group participation) and the precise regulatory bodies targeted. However, its description of desired outcomes remains high-level; beyond supporting “commitment for sustainable finance issues” and the broader “goal for a cleaner world,” it does not set out concrete legislative changes, numeric targets or amendments it seeks. The result is strong transparency on the policies addressed and the methods used, with more limited clarity around the specific policy results the bank is pursuing. | 3 |