We have expanded the list of climate policies we assess company engagement with to incorporate land-use related policy, referring to legislative or regulatory measures to enhance and protect ecosystems and land where carbon is being stored. Assessments under this category are currently underweighted in terms of their contribution to the overall company metrics. This weighting will be progressively increased over the next 6 months.
We adjusted the terminology used to describe the queries running down the left-hand side of our scoring matrix and added additional explanatory text to the info-boxes. This has no impact on the scores and methodology. It has been done following user feedback to improve clarity.
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Adelaide Brighton is one of 11 direct members of Manufacturing Australia. (up to date as of August 2022)
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Adelaide Brighton is one of 11 direct members of Manufacturing Australia. (up to date as of August 2022)
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Adelaide Brighton is one of over 80 direct members of CMI. (up to date as of August 2022)
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Adelaide Brighton is one of over 80 direct members of CMI. (up to date as of August 2022)
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In this section, we depict graphically the relationships the corporation has with trade associations, federations, advocacy groups and other third parties who may be acting on their behalf to influence climate change policy. Each of the columns above represents one relationship the corporation appears to have with such a third party. In these columns, the top, dark section represents the strength of the relationship the corporation has with the influencer. For example if a corporation's senior executive also held a key role in the trade association, we would deem this to be a strong relationship and it would be on the far left of the chart above, with the weaker ones to the right. Click on these grey shaded upper sections for details of these relationships. The middle section contains a link to the organization score details of the influencer concerned, so you can see the details of its climate change policy influence. Click on the middle sections for for details of the trade associations. The lower section contains the organization score of that influencer, the lower the more negatively it is influencing climate policy.
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Climate Lobbying Overview: Adbri (formerly Adelaide Brighton) appears generally supportive of climate action and the energy transition in its top-line communications. The company has mixed and limited engagement with specific climate policy, though it has increased its lobbying activities on certain policy measures in 2022.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Adbri’s top-line communications on climate policy appears broadly positive. In its 2021 Annual Report, published in February 2022, Adbri stated support for the Paris Agreement and supported government regulation to achieve the goals of the agreement. The company also backed the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 in its 2020 Sustainability Report, published in February 2021. Furthermore, Adbri CEO Nick Miller appeared to support government regulation in response to climate change in the company's May 2022 Net Zero Emissions Roadmap, stating that government policy must be advanced alongside climate change action.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Adbri appears to have increased its engagement with climate change policies in 2022. In a May 2022 Daily Telegraph article, Adbri CEO Nick Miller appeared to be unsupportive of the Australian Labor Party’s proposal to strengthen Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism, emphasizing the need for the policy to avoid stifling investment in the cement and steel industries. In contrast, in its May 2022 Net Zero Roadmap, Adbri appeared to support more ambitious energy efficiency standards for buildings. In the same May 2022 document, Adbri also appeared to support greenhouse gas legislation, stating that “government policies have a vital role in enabling, de-risking and coordinating emissions reductions”. Furthermore, in its May 2022 Net Zero Roadmap, Adbri supported an Australian carbon border adjustment mechanism, however it did not specify its position on the removal of existing carbon leakage protection for trade-exposed sectors.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Adbri has limited engagement on the transition of the energy mix. In its 2021 Annual Report, published in February 2022, the company appeared to support the transition to a low carbon economy, and the long-term decarbonization of the cement industry. However, it emphasized the absence of current technology to support the process of cement decarbonization. Adbri also appeared to express nominal support for transitioning to zero emissions manufacturing for lime and cement in a November 2022 AUManufacturing article, however, it is unclear if its position is aligned with IPCC advice on delivering 1.5°C warming.
Notably, in a September 2020 Sydney Morning Herald article, Adbri CEO Nick Miller appeared to support a sustained role for fossil gas in the energy mix, backing Australia’s "gas-fired recovery" from the COVID-19 pandemic, without reference to the need for CCS or methane abatement measures. InfluenceMap did not find any further evidence of the company's position on the wider role of fossil fuels in the energy mix.
Industry Association Governance: Adbri does not have a clearly identifiable disclosure of its indirect climate-related lobbying activities. The company has disclosed its membership to four industry associations in its 2019 Annual Report, including the Carbon Market Institute (CMI) and Manufacturing Australia (MA). CMI's engagement on climate policy has been generally positive, although focused mainly on market-based measures, while MA appears broadly unsupportive of ambitious climate policy in Australia. Adbri has not disclosed any details of the company's alignment or influence within these organizations, nor has it published a full audit disclosure of its industry links. Adbri does not appear to have published an updated list of industry associations since its 2019 Annual Report.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q4 2022.