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
CEO of LafargeHolcim Spain is President of CEMBUREAU. Multiple members of Holcim are on the board which results in a higher score
Isidoro Miranda
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
Senior executives of LafargeHolcim are on the board of Cembureau (Multiple members on the board results in higher score)
Isidoro Miranda Fernandez and Francois Petry
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
A senior executive of LafargeHolcim is on the Senior Advisory Group of Cembureau
Cedric de Meeus
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
CEO of LafargeHolcim Spain is President of CEMBUREAU. Multiple members of Holcim are on the board which results in a higher score
Isidoro Miranda
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
Senior executives of LafargeHolcim are on the board of Cembureau (Multiple members on the board results in higher score)
Isidoro Miranda Fernandez and Francois Petry
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
A senior executive of LafargeHolcim is on the Senior Advisory Group of Cembureau
Cedric de Meeus
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Several senior executives of Holcim Germany are members of the board of VDZ, Thorsten Hahn being a Chairman [Scorer's note: multiple representatives on the board results in higher score]
Thorsten Hahn, Matthias von der Belje, Daniel Reiser
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A Senior Executive of Holcim Germany is a member of the Chair of VDZ
Diebold, Jens
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Several senior executives of Holcim Germany are members of the board of VDZ, Thorsten Hahn being a Chairman [Scorer's note: multiple representatives on the board results in higher score]
Thorsten Hahn, Matthias von der Belje, Daniel Reiser
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A Senior Executive of Holcim Germany is a member of the Chair of VDZ
Diebold, Jens
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Senior executive is head of the Legal Commission of CANACEM. CEO of Holcim Mexico is President of CANACEM. Multiple employees on the board results in higher score (Updated April 2023)
Alain Macfarland, Jaime Hill Tinoco
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Senior executive of Holcim is head of the Sustainability Committee at CANACEM
Ibette Sosa
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A senior executive at LafargeHolcim is a vice president of CANACEM
Antoine Zenone
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Senior executive is head of the Legal Commission of CANACEM. CEO of Holcim Mexico is President of CANACEM. Multiple employees on the board results in higher score (Updated April 2023)
Alain Macfarland, Jaime Hill Tinoco
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Senior executive of Holcim is head of the Sustainability Committee at CANACEM
Ibette Sosa
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A senior executive at LafargeHolcim is a vice president of CANACEM
Antoine Zenone
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
CEO is a member of ERT. Disclosed in 2021 CDP that Holcim is an active participant to the climate and energy working group and plays a leading role in the development of forward-looking engagement on the low-carbon transition.
Jan Jenisch
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Sourced from CDP Climate Change Disclosure 2020: LafargeHolcim is an active participant to the climate and energy working group and plays a leading role in the development of forward-looking engagement on the low-carbon transition.
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Lafarge Honorary Chairman was Energy and Climate Change Working Group Chair of ERT
Bruno Lafont
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
CEO is a member of ERT. Disclosed in 2021 CDP that Holcim is an active participant to the climate and energy working group and plays a leading role in the development of forward-looking engagement on the low-carbon transition.
Jan Jenisch
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Sourced from CDP Climate Change Disclosure 2020: LafargeHolcim is an active participant to the climate and energy working group and plays a leading role in the development of forward-looking engagement on the low-carbon transition.
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Lafarge Honorary Chairman was Energy and Climate Change Working Group Chair of ERT
Bruno Lafont
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A senior executive of Holcim is on the General Council of AITEC
Lucio Greco
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A subsidiary of LafargeHolcim is a member of AITEC
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A senior executive of Holcim is on the General Council of AITEC
Lucio Greco
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A subsidiary of LafargeHolcim is a member of AITEC
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
LafargeHolcim is a member of SFIC
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
a subsidiary of LaFargeHolcim is a member of of SFIC
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
LafargeHolcim is a member of SFIC
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
a subsidiary of LaFargeHolcim is a member of of SFIC
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Holcim, under the name Lafarge, is a direct member of API (updated January 2023)
not specified
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
Holcim, under the name Lafarge, is a direct member of API (updated January 2023)
not specified
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InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
LafargeHolcim is a direct member of FICEM
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A senior executive of a subsidiary of LaFargeHolcim is a director of FICEM
Charles Law
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
LafargeHolcim is a direct member of FICEM
not specified
InfluenceMap Data Point on Corporate - Influencer Relationship
(1 = weak, 10 = strong)
A senior executive of a subsidiary of LaFargeHolcim is a director of FICEM
Charles Law
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.
Climate Lobbying Overview: Holcim (previously LafargeHolcim) appears to be actively engaged with climate policy, taking positive positions on several key policy strands but retaining some more unsupportive stances, particularly in New Zealand in 2021. The company’s top-line messaging on broad climate change policy and the energy transition is predominantly positive, yet it was unsupportive of a proposed Renewable Energy Directive Delegated Act on recycled carbon fuels in 2022. Holcim retains membership of several influential associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute, which are negatively lobbying on climate policy.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Holcim is mostly supportive of climate policy in its top-line messaging on climate action. In November 2022, the company signed a joint letter supporting reducing GHG emissions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and it signed another in June 2022 supporting the EU Green Deal. However, in a response to a public consultation in New Zealand in March 2021, the company appeared to stress the risks from unilateral action and the technological feasibility of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Holcim stated support for enabling climate policy frameworks in its 2022 Climate Report, published in April 2022, stating they should work as market enablers and enhance competitiveness. It also supported carbon pricing, suggesting it must be “reliable” and encompass supply and demand. In May 2022, Holcim signed a joint letter supporting increasing the ambition of a wide range of climate policies in the US, and was in favor of more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions in the build up to COP27.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Holcim seems to engage predominantly positively with climate regulations. ln an industry association review in April 2021 the company broadly supported emissions trading schemes, and in a response to a public consultation in New Zealand, Holcim was supportive of international carbon markets in March 2021. The CEO Jan Jenisch advocated for a higher carbon price in the Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in a February 2022 earnings call. However, in June 2022 the company signed a joint letter advocating against the EU Parliament Environment Committee’s ambitious proposals for the reform the EU ETS and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, stressing that the proposals would “further increase unilateral regulatory costs and harm the competitiveness of European industries in EU or international markets”, and advocating for strengthened carbon leakage protection measures. In a response to a public consultation in March 2021, Holcim opposed a CBAM in New Zealand.
Holcim was broadly supportive of energy efficiency standards and building codes in the construction sector in its 2022 Climate Report on the condition that building legislation is technology and material-neutral and based on lifecycle performance.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Holcim seems to support the energy transition and the decarbonization of the cement sector, with some exceptions. In its 2022 Climate Report, the company advocated for government policy to support the development of low-carbon technologies, particularly carbon capture and utilization, and to support alternative fuels, such as non-recyclable and biomass waste, to replace fossil fuels. In feedback to the EU Commission on the Draft Delegated Act for GHG savings from renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs) and recycled carbon fuels in June 2022, Holcim did not support the proposed 2035 deadline for counting captured emissions from non-sustainable sources as avoided emissions. In March 2022 in a testimony to the Maryland General Assembly on the Buildings Standards and Emissions Reductions legislation, the company supported low-carbon procurement mandates for state construction projects. An opinion piece for the Economist in October 2022, written by a senior executive Magali Anderson strongly supported a range of policies to decarbonize buildings, including green public procurement and product standards. In a November 2022 joint letter signed by the CEO, Holcim supported removing fossil fuel subsidies.
Industry Association Governance: Holcim published a detailed list of industry association memberships and their positions on climate policy on its corporate website, accessed in July 2022. In April 2021, the company published a review of its alignment on climate policy with some of its industry associations. Holcim retains membership of several influential associations such as the American Petroleum Institute which is negatively lobbying on climate policy. The CEO of LafargeHolcim Spain is President of CEMBUREAU. The Australian branch of the company appears to retain memberships of associations which have been intensely oppositional to Australian climate policy, including the Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Manufacturing Australia.
A detailed assessment of the company's industry association review can be found on our CA100+ webpage here.
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 Q1 2023.