About the Supplier Engagement Ratings (SER)

The CDP survey of climate change scores more than 8,400 of the companies with the highest market capitalization in the world on initiatives such as greenhouse gas emission reduction activities and climate change mitigation measures. The Supplier Engagement Rankings only assess companies based on questions from the CDP climate change survey that pertain to engagement with suppliers. The 2019 Supplier Engagement Rankings assessed more than 4,800 companies around the world, and only the 159 companies comprising the top 3% were selected to the Leaderboard. Twenty-eight of these companies were from Japan, including NRI.

About NRI’s climate change-related supplier engagement

NRI is taking the lead in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions arising through business activities in its entire supply chain. Amongst the environmental targets that NRI announced in February 2018, one was to set a ratio for the number suppliers and vendors in its supply chain which must set their own environmental targets to achieve the goal of keeping increases in global temperatures below 2°C^*3.
NRI also holds ‘Sustainability Dialogues’ with domestic and international partner companies each year, exchanging opinions on various sustainability-related topics. This facilitates sustainability throughout the supply chain as opposed to NRI pursuing sustainability initiatives such as action against climate change on its own.
NRI believes that these proactive efforts to engage with suppliers on climate change have been recognized as high-level in a global context, leading to this selection to the Leaderboard.

The NRI Group will work with a variety of stakeholders to create new value and address social issues including climate change under the corporate philosophy of “Dream up the future” in an effort to contribute to the creation of a sustainable future society.

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  CDP：
  CDP is a global non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Voted number one climate research provider by investors and working with institutional investors with assets of US$96 trillion, we leverage investor and buyer power to motivate companies to disclose and manage their environmental impacts. Over 8,400 companies with over 50% of global market capitalization disclosed environmental data through CDP in 2019. This is in addition to the over 920 cities, states and regions who disclosed, making CDP’s platform one of the richest sources of information globally on how companies and governments are driving environmental change.
  The Supplier Engagement Leaderboard is available here: https://www.cdp.net/en/companies/companies-scores

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  NRI Makes CDP’s ‘A List’ for Leading Effort Against Climate Change:
  NRI News : https://www.nri.com/en/news/info/cc/lst/2020/0120_1

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  NRI News : https://www.nri.com/en/news/newsrelease/lst/2018/cc/0216

For Reference

●  NRI’s sustainability-related initiatives

Website:
https://www.nri.com/en/sustainability

Integrated Report:
https://ir.nri.com/en/ir/library/report.html

ESG Databook:
https://www.nri.com/en/sustainability/library/back_number

Sustainability Book:
https://www.nri.com/en/sustainability/library/back_number