Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | MTR Corporation Limited provides extensive and specific disclosure of its climate-policy lobbying activities. It names several distinct policies it engages on, including “Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050,” the earlier “Climate Action Plan 2030+,” the “Railway Development Strategy 2014 (RDS-2014),” and voluntary programmes such as the “Pledge on Energy Saving Charter,” the “Chartership on External Lighting,” and the pre-legislative “Building Energy Codes.” The company also spells out how and to whom it lobbies: it “engaged the law makers regularly via the Subcommittee on Matters Relating to Railways under the Legislative Council,” has been “working closely with the Transport and Housing Bureau of the HKSAR Government,” is a “Committee Member of the Hong Kong Green Building Council,” participates in the International Association of Public Transport, and joins multi-stakeholder bodies like the Climate Change Business Forum, showing both direct and association-based channels aimed at clearly identified government departments and legislators. Finally, it is explicit about the outcomes it seeks, backing the territory’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, advocating low-carbon station design and rail-network expansion to raise public-transport market share, and supporting measures to “shorten operating hours of external lighting and reduce energy consumption,” achieve at least BEAM Plus Gold ratings for new developments, and encourage early adoption of Building Energy Codes. This level of detail on the policies addressed, the mechanisms and targets of engagement, and the concrete changes desired demonstrates a comprehensive degree of transparency around the company’s climate-related lobbying. | 4 |