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
The CDP is an international non-profit organization established in the U.K. in 2000 that operates a global environmental disclosure system. As a pioneer in environmental reporting, it maintains the world’s largest environmental dataset and aligns with the TCFD framework (source: CDP website). It partners with leaders across business, politics, economics, and science to provide information that supports Earth-positive decision-making. In 2025, 640 institutional investors—representing a combined US$127 trillion in assets—utilized CDP data to inform their investment and lending decisions.
Selected as a Sompo Sustainability Index constituent for the fifth straight year
UACJ has been selected as a constituent stock for 2026 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 fifth 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.