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.
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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Lincoln National Corporation (Lincoln Financial) does not appear to have significantly engaged with sustainable finance policy.
There is evidence of support for the goals of the Paris Agreement in Lincoln Financial’s 2020 Corporate Sustainability Report. In a 2021 Regulatory Updates paper, Lincoln Financial describes Department of Labor rules on incorporating ESG factors into fiduciaries’ decision-making but does not take a clear position on these policies. Lincoln Financial’s Q4 2021 lobbying report shows engagement on ESG issues related to the insurance sector but details of this engagement are unclear.
Lincoln Financial has not detailed its sustainable finance policy positions or engagement apart from linking to its lobbying reports filed at the state and federal levels in its Public Policy statement. Lincoln Financial has disclosed its membership to trade associations but has not given details on the sustainable finance policy positions of these organizations or actions taken to address misalignments.