Certified CDP A List Rating for Climate Change Response for the Third Consecutive Year
―Recognition of climate change initiatives for target setting, action, and transparency―
KDDI Corporation
February 6, 2025―KDDI was scored by CDP, an international environmental NGO [
1], as being on its Climate Change A List for the third consecutive year, the highest score possible for companies with advanced environment initiatives. KDDI was recognized as a global leader in environmental activities, with its initiatives such as "target setting," "action" and "transparency" in climate change operations being scored highly.
CDP is a global non-profit organization established in 2000 that has been operating in Japan since 2005. Based on requests from institutional investors and other stakeholders worldwide who are strongly interested in environmental issues, CDP promotes corporate and municipal initiatives with regard to climate change, water resource conservation and forest preservation, while encouraging disclosures of environmental data. CDP collects, analyzes and evaluates data on the environmental activities of major companies around the globe, and recognizes top companies in this area for their initiatives and disclosures on climate change by certifying them in CDP's Climate Change A List. In FY2024, more than 24,800 companies were scored.
■About KDDI's climate change initiatives
The KDDI Group has moved up its carbon neutrality targets for Scope 1 and Scope 2 [2] CO2 emissions to FY2030 and has set a net-zero target that will involve the elimination by FY2040 of CO2 emissions across its entire supply chain [4], including Scope 3 [3]. KDDI is working toward achieving its net-zero target through initiatives such as reducing the power consumption of telecommunications equipment, utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar power supplied by au Renewable Energy, and offering businesses KDDI Green Digital Solution, a lineup of digital environmental solutions, to support them in achieving carbon neutrality.
KDDI was also one of the first telecommunications companies to publish a TNFD Report addressing natural capital, including biodiversity. It works toward resolving environmental issues as it has been selected as a participating company in the Climate-Related Financial Disclosure-Based Nature-Related Financial Disclosure Support Model Project [5], from Japan's Ministry of the Environment. As a global company, KDDI is committed to steadily reducing its environmental impact across all its business activities.
KDDI will continue its efforts toward achieving carbon neutrality and contribute to addressing the global challenge of climate change.
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■About KDDI's Sustainability Management
KDDI promotes sustainability management by enhancing social and environmental value in addition to economic value, realizing a cycle of sustainable growth for both the company and society. In its Medium-Term Management Strategy (FY2022-2025), KDDI formulated six key material issues (materialities) that comprehensively address social challenges and the importance of KDDI Group's management from a long-term perspective. The third materiality theme is "Carbon Neutrality," and the fifth of its eight values that KDDI will provide to society also emphasizes "Carbon Neutrality."
■About CDP
CDP is a non-governmental organization (NGO) managed by a UK-based charitable organization that operates a global disclosure system that enables investors, companies, nations, regions and cities to manage their environmental impact.
Established in 2000, CDP now collaborates with over 740 investors managing more than USD $142 trillion in assets, and has been a pioneer in leveraging capital markets and corporate procurement to encourage companies to disclose their environmental impact, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect water resources, and conserve forests.
In 2024, more than 24,000 organizations worldwide (including over 23,000 companies that represent two-thirds of global market capitalization), together with more than 1,100 cities, states and regions, have disclosed data through CDP.
CDP is fully aligned with TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) and possesses the world's largest environmental database, with CDP scores being widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions toward a zero-carbon, sustainable and resilient economy.
CDP is a founding member of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the We Mean Business Coalition, The Investor Agenda (an initiative promoting climate action among institutional investors) and NZAMI (Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative).
■About CDP's environmental disclosure and evaluation process
CDP's environmental disclosure and evaluation process is widely recognized as the gold standard in corporate environmental reporting. CDP holds the most extensive and comprehensive dataset on corporate actions, and its unique disclosure process and methodology foster a high level of reliability.
CDP evaluates companies using its detailed and independent methodology, assigning scores from A to D-, based on factors such as the comprehensiveness of disclosure, the awareness and management of environmental risks, and the demonstration of best practices in ambitious and meaningful target setting for environmental leadership. Companies that do not disclose information or do not provide sufficient data receive an F rating.
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- [2]Emissions due to KDDI's business activities. Scope 1 refers to greenhouse gas emissions directly caused by the company's own operations. Scope 2 refers to indirect emissions from the use of electricity, heat and steam supplied by other parties.
- [3]Indirect emissions other than Scope 2 (emissions from other parties related to the company's activities).
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