External Recognition and Evaluation
ShareUACJ Achieves Leadership Level "A-" Rating in CDP 2025 for Both Climate Change and Water Security
UACJ received an "A-" rating in both the Climate Change and Water Security categories in the CDP 2025 survey, conducted by the environmental information disclosure initiative CDP in December 2025. This "A-" score falls within the Leadership Level. We believe this rating reflects the substantial efforts we have made to enhance our environmental Materialities, including: Leading the Circular Economy in Aluminum, Taking Measures to Address Climate Change, and Supporting Environmental Health and Nature (Nature Positive).
About CDP
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world's environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Founded in 2000 and working with more than 740 financial institutions with over $137 trillion in assets, CDP pioneered using capital markets and corporate procurement to motivate companies to disclose their environmental impacts, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Over 25,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2023, with more than 23,000 companies – including listed companies worth two thirds global market capitalization - and over 1,100 cities, states and regions. Fully TCFD aligned, CDP holds the largest environmental database in the world, and CDP scores are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions towards a zero carbon, sustainable and resilient economy. CDP is a founding member of the Science Based Targets initiative, We Mean Business Coalition, The Investor Agenda and the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.
Selected as a Sompo Sustainability Index constituent for the fourth straight year
UACJ has been selected as a constituent stock for 2025 in the Sompo Sustainability Index operated by Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd. This index undergoes annual review, and UACJ's ESG initiatives have received evaluation, resulting in selection for the fourth consecutive year since 2022.
- The Sompo Sustainability Index constitutes an active index that Sompo Asset Management creates independently by combining stock value evaluations with ESG scores based on the Environmental Management Survey and ESG Management Survey conducted by Sompo Risk Management, consisting of approximately 300 stocks with superior ESG evaluations. Sompo Asset Management constructs portfolios that track this index and has conducted sustainable management, an ESG product aspiring to long-term investment through buy-and-hold, since August 2012. This product currently sees adoption by multiple institutional investors such as pension funds.