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Taisei Corporation Listed on “CDP’s Climate Change A List 2020” for Most Pioneering Environmental Performance

December 9, 2020
Taisei Corporation

　Taisei Corporation (President and Chief Executive Officer: Yoshiro AIKAWA, hereinafter “Taisei”) has been selected as member of the companies composing “A List”, which is the highest level of eight ratings, by CDP*1, the international nonprofit environmental organization, in recognition of Taisei’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate climate change risks, and more. Each year CDP rates companies on the basis of their efforts such as pioneering environmental initiatives and places the top-rated companies on its “Climate Change A List”.

　Taisei has set a 2030 CO2 reduction target, which has been approved as SBT*2, and is working to curb greenhouse gas emissions with an eye to realizing a low-carbon society.
　Also, having endorsed TCFD*3 Recommendations in July 2020, Taisei analyzes technologies that may lead to climate change risks as well as contract opportunities and discloses relevant information, such as actions to be taken in light of analysis results.

　Under the group philosophy of “To Create a Vibrant Environment for All Members of Society”, Taisei continues to make group-wide efforts for “realizing a sustainable and environmentally conscious society” as outlined in its environmental policy.

  1. ※1CDP (formerly called Carbon Disclosure Project) is a nonprofit organization that, in response to demand from environmentally conscious institutional investors and major purchasing organizations around the world, urges companies and local governments to disclose their environmental initiatives addressing “Climate Change”, “Water Security”, and “Forests” as well as take action based on the disclosed information.
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    SBT (Science Based Targets) is a carbon reduction target set by the initiative, a partnership among CDP, World Resources Institute (WRI), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), that calls on companies to take action toward achieving their science-based carbon reduction targets in order to keep a global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures.

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    TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) is the task force established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in 2015.