Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | AECI Ltd provides a clear and detailed picture of its climate-policy lobbying. It names three distinct South African measures it has engaged on—the “mandated carbon budgets,” the “mandatory reporting of GHG emissions in South Africa that was introduced in 2017,” and “The South African Carbon Tax”—situating each within the national climate-legislative framework. The company also explains how it lobbies, stating that it acts “through meetings and written correspondence” and identifying the specific target of those efforts as the “South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment” and other policymakers responsible for the carbon-tax regime. Finally, AECI lays out the concrete changes it seeks: it has “proposed changes to the boundaries and thresholds so that they align with other climate-related legislation,” called for better alignment between carbon budgets, Pollution Prevention Plans and the carbon tax, and suggested that “companies who can show that they have undertaken acceptable emissions mitigation activities should be exempt from the tax,” citing concerns about “the appropriateness and timing of the carbon tax” and “the way in which companies are benchmarked under the carbon tax.” Together, these disclosures demonstrate a strong level of transparency across the policies lobbied, the mechanisms employed and the specific outcomes pursued. | 3 |