Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Limited | Meiji Holdings offers only limited insight into its climate-related lobbying. The company signals a general alignment with international and domestic policy frameworks—referencing the Paris Agreement and Japanese legislation such as the Act on the Rational Use of Energy and the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures—but it does not clarify whether or how it has tried to influence these measures. Indirect mechanisms are mentioned in passing: Meiji notes its participation in the Japan Food Industry Center’s Sustainability Committee, which “submits policy proposals to the government,” and attendance at seminars run by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of the Environment, yet it gives no detail on meetings, written submissions, or other concrete channels of advocacy, nor does it name specific officials or legislative processes that were approached. Likewise, the company does not set out the policy changes it hopes to secure; its disclosures focus instead on operational initiatives such as “conducting farm mapping,” “training farmers regarding the latest Good Agricultural Practices,” and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, without linking these ambitions to particular legislative outcomes. The absence of clearly identified policies, mechanisms, and desired legislative results leaves stakeholders with only a partial picture of Meiji’s climate-policy lobbying activity. | 1 |