Sime Darby Property Bhd – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

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None	Sime Darby Property Bhd provides a clear outline of its sustainability governance through its recently established “Board Sustainability Committee (‘BSC’)”, which “provides strategic direction and oversees the Group’s overall ESG framework”, alongside a “Management Sustainability Committee” and embedded “ESG Champions”. However, with respect to lobbying governance, the company only notes that it “participate[s] in sub-committee of CAN outlined in C12.1d” when asked about processes to align engagement activities with its climate strategy and explicitly states “No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years” in response to whether it will adopt a commitment to conduct engagement in line with the Paris Agreement. We found no evidence of any policies, internal mechanisms, or specific individuals or bodies tasked with overseeing or reviewing climate-related lobbying activities, nor any procedures to monitor or manage direct or indirect lobbying efforts in line with its climate commitments. View Sources	E

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Sime Darby Property Bhd provides a clear outline of its sustainability governance through its recently established “Board Sustainability Committee (‘BSC’)”, which “provides strategic direction and oversees the Group’s overall ESG framework”, alongside a “Management Sustainability Committee” and embedded “ESG Champions”. However, with respect to lobbying governance, the company only notes that it “participate[s] in sub-committee of CAN outlined in C12.1d” when asked about processes to align engagement activities with its climate strategy and explicitly states “No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years” in response to whether it will adopt a commitment to conduct engagement in line with the Paris Agreement. We found no evidence of any policies, internal mechanisms, or specific individuals or bodies tasked with overseeing or reviewing climate-related lobbying activities, nor any procedures to monitor or manage direct or indirect lobbying efforts in line with its climate commitments.

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Lobbying Transparency

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Limited	Sime Darby Property provides only limited insight into its climate-related lobbying. It references alignment with the Malaysian Government’s National Energy Transition Roadmap (NETR) – including support for the roadmap’s goal of “70% renewable energy generation capacity by 2050” and claims it has made “rousing new inroads into the renewable energy sector” – but it does not name any specific pieces of legislation, regulations or amendments it has tried to influence, nor does it clarify which parts of the NETR it engages on. The company describes indirect channels such as participation in the CEO Action Network, Climate Governance Malaysia and an MoU with Tenaga Nasional Berhad, and notes that it holds “engagement sessions with industry experts and government representatives,” yet it fails to identify the government bodies, officials or formal consultation processes that were the focus of these efforts. Finally, the disclosures speak only in broad terms about wanting to reduce embodied and operational carbon and to expand solar projects; they do not set out concrete policy changes, targets or timelines that the company seeks from lawmakers or regulators. Together, these omissions mean the company offers minimal clarity on what it lobbies for, how it does so, and what outcomes it is pursuing.	D