Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: The Lego Group (Lego) actively engaged with climate change policies in 2022-24, supporting ambitious and IPCC-aligned climate action in its top-line messaging and engaging broadly positively with specific climate policies and the energy transition. Lego retains membership to two industry associations that are actively engaged on climate policy.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: The Lego Group (Lego) supported ambitious climate policy in its top-line messaging. In a July 2024 news release, the company recognized the need for urgent climate action. Lego supported government policy to ensure that carbon is priced into the economy in a September 2023 open letter. In the same September 2023 open letter, the company supported the principles of the UN Paris Agreement.
Engagement with Climate-Related Policy: The Lego Group (Lego) engaged with climate-related policy with some positive positions in 2022-24. In a joint letter signed in November 2022, Lego CEO Niels B. Christiansen supported energy efficiency incentives and renewable energy legislation. The company also supported circular economy legislation in the EU. For example, Lego supported turning the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive into a Regulation in an April 2023 feedback comment, and broadly supported Design for Recycling criteria and stringency in implementing the policy. The company consistently supported an ambitious Global Treaty on Plastics, for example in the Bridge to Busan Declaration in October 2024.
Positioning on Energy Transition: InfluenceMap detected limited but positive engagement from the Lego Group (Lego) on the energy transition in 2022-24. In a November 2022 joint letter, the company advocated for the removal of fossil fuel subsidies and supported regulatory measures to transition to low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. In September 2023, Lego signed open letter in which signatories broadly supported investments and regulatory frameworks to enable the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Industry Association Governance: The Lego Group (Lego) retains membership to two industry associations that are actively engaged on climate policy, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. NAM engages on climate policy with predominantly negative positions. Lego has not published a formal review of its industry associations and climate policy engagement.
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 2024.