Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]Any activities that have the potential to influence climate policy are discussed with the ESG Steering Committee to ensure they are consistent with the company's overall climate change strategy. The ESG Steering Committee is comprised of executives from various company functions that meet regularly to discuss core business activities as they relate to environmental impact, labor and other social responsibility topics.
Since 2012, the Company has been a member of the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) Coalition, a project of Boston-based CERES. BICEP launched in 2008 and is an advocacy coalition of businesses committed to working with policy makers to pass meaningful energy and climate legislation that will enable a rapid transition to a low-carbon, 21st century economy that will create new jobs and stimulate economic growth while stabilizing our planet's climate.
BICEP's overall goal is broad, bipartisan consensus among policy makers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, with an interim goal of at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. In order for such progress to be achieved, BICEP members are committed to the following principles in the development of U.S. energy and climate policy:
1. Promote Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
2. Increase Investment in a Clean Energy Economy
3. Support Climate Change Adaptation, Technology Transfer and Forest Preservation
For more information on Ceres BICEP, go to: https://www.ceres.org/networks/ceres-policy-network