About the S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023 Rankings

Every year, S&P Global assesses the sustanability of major companies worldwide focusing on three aspects of economy, environment, and society, by way of its Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). It also publishes the Sustaiability Yearbook, which recognizes companies in various industries that participate in the CSA and that especially stand out for the strength and high level of disclosure of their sustanability efforts.

NRI was rated in the Sustainability Yearbook 2023 Rankings as being among the “Top 10%” of companies participating in the CSA. This year, 7,800 of the world’s major companies (across 61 areas of industry) were evaluated in their respective industries, with the 708 most highly-evaluated companies listed in the Yearbook.
In the industrial field of IT services industry to which NRI belongs, a total of 10 companies globally including NRI were selected as outstanding “Top 10%” companies, with three Japanese companies having received this distinction.

About NRI’s Evaluation

As a company engaged in the field of “information technology services and internet software and services”, NRI received high scores in “governance/economy” for its efforts involving information security and innovation, in “environmental” for using TCFD² scenario analysis to calculate the financial impact of climate change to its business, and in “social” for enhancing its third-party assurance³ on its society-related data, as well as for the amount invested and professional development hours spent in human resource training. We believe that NRI’s high scores in these areas contributed to its selection as a “Top 10%” company.

NRI has also been selected⁴ as a constituent of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index, two stock indices which are operated by S&P Global that evaluate the sustainability of companies from an ESG investment perspective.

The NRI Group’s corporate philosophy of “Dream Up the Future” is an expression of our commitment to striving to unlock the future through innovation and to solving social issues. Through our consulting, IT solutions and other services, NRI has contributed to solving social issues together with our customers and to the creation of a safe, stable, convenient, and affluent society.
The NRI Group aims to continue enhancing corporate value and promoting the realization of a sustainable society by solving a broad range of social problems.

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  S&P Global: One of the world’s leading financial service companies providing credit ratings, benchmarks, and analysis in global capital and commodity markets, and providing detailed data and observations relating to important business factors including ESG

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  TCFD is an acronym for Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

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  Third-party assurance: assurance provided by an independent third party regarding a company’s environmental data (including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions listed in integrated reports, ESG databooks, and other such materials), as well as its social data (including data on employees, diversity, quality, and safety).

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  For the news release on NRI’s selection for DJSI World and DJSI Asia Pacific, please visit the following webpage:
  https://www.nri.com/en/news/newsrelease/lst/2022/cc/1215_1

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