Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | Rinnai Corp provides a relatively detailed picture of how it engages with Japan’s energy-efficiency rule-making. It explicitly names several pieces of legislation it works under—the “エネルギーの使用の合理化等に関する法律（製品）” and its associated “トップランナー制度,” the similar law for “特定事業者,” the “建築物のエネルギー消費性能の向上に関する法律,” and the Act on the Rational Use of Energy for Specified Consignors—clearly indicating the jurisdiction and focus of each measure. The company also describes multiple channels through which it interacts with these policies: it “submits an annual report to the government,” calculates and discloses product-level efficiency data under the Top Runner rules, and, in the building sector, “設計段階で当該建設元請け業者と協議を行い、適合義務を満足する工事を実施する,” demonstrating consultation with contractors to ensure legal compliance. The Japanese government is identified as the primary target of these engagements. On outcomes, Rinnai spells out concrete aims—meeting the Top Runner efficiency thresholds every year rather than only in the official target year, improving energy-intensity indicators by “at least 1 % annually,” and supporting the building-energy law “with no exceptions” in line with the Paris Agreement—making its policy objectives and reasoning clear. Taken together, the disclosures show a strong, though not exhaustive, level of transparency across the main elements of climate-related lobbying. | 3 |