Wesfarmers Ltd

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Comprehensive	Wesfarmers provides a highly detailed picture of its climate-policy engagement. It lists several identifiable measures it has lobbied on – mandatory climate-related financial disclosures, the proposed New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, reviews to tackle carbon-leakage risk (including consideration of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism), and reforms to enable low-emissions ammonia production – offering enough information to pinpoint each initiative. The company also explains how it lobbies and whom it targets, describing written submissions and consultations with the Australian and state governments, work through industry associations, and collaborative projects with partners such as APA Group, Monash University and Mitsui E&P Australia. Finally, it is explicit about the outcomes it seeks: faster transport decarbonisation via adoption of the vehicle efficiency standard, safeguards against carbon leakage, and policy frameworks to scale carbon capture, utilisation and storage and secure natural-gas feedstock for clean ammonia. This level of specificity across policies, mechanisms and desired results demonstrates comprehensive transparency in its climate-related lobbying disclosures.	4

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
None	Wesfarmers does not disclose any internal governance process for its lobbying or policy engagement activities. While the company describes that “The Wesfarmers Board has responsibility for managing the Group’s response to climate change” and that “During the year, Wesfarmers and its divisions engaged with the Australian and state governments, industry associations and member organisations on policies and actions to support climate action,” it provides no details on any lobbying governance policy, oversight structure, or review process for direct or indirect lobbying. We found no evidence of any named individual or committee overseeing lobbying alignment, nor any mechanism for evaluating or aligning its trade association engagements with its climate policy. The disclosures focus on climate risk management and strategy approval but do not extend to how lobbying is monitored, managed, or aligned with its climate objectives.	0