MOL Recognized with 'A' Score for Transparency on Climate Change for the Third Consecutive Year

December 16, 2025

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto, Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) has been recognized for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change by global environmental non-profit organization CDP (Note 1), securing a place on its annual 'A List' (Note 2) for climate change for the third consecutive year.

CDP operates the world's only independent environmental disclosure system and assesses thousands of companies each year. In 2025, nearly 20,000 companies were scored, out of more than 22,100 reporting through CDP's platform. Achieving an 'A' places MOL among the global leaders demonstrating comprehensive disclosure, mature environmental governance, and meaningful progress towards environmental resilience.

The MOL Group has identified five 'Sustainability Issues (Materiality)' as important challenges for achieving sustainable development together with society through the realization of our group vision, and we are promoting initiatives to solve environmental and other issues. Also, in our management plan 'BLUE ACTION 2035', we have positioned environmental strategy as one of our main strategies. In order to address these challenges and realize our environmental strategies, the "MOL Group Environmental Vision 2.2" serves as a roadmap, outlining not only net zero for 2050, but also interim milestones and specific GHG emissions reduction pathways.
We understand that these initiatives have been highly evaluated, leading to our selection for the A list for climate change.

Under MOL Group corporate philosophy of 'Supporting people's daily lives from the blue sea and opening up a prosperous future', our group aims to deliver new value to all stakeholders and become a strong and flexible corporate group that grows globally by not only increasing economic value but also social value.

Note 1: About CDP
CDP is an international non-profit organization that has a global system for evaluating and disclosing environmental information on the strategies and initiatives of companies and municipalities towards climate change and greenhouse gas emission reduction. Since its establishment in 2000, CDP has been leading initiatives to encourage companies to disclose environmental impacts, reduce greenhouse gases, and protect water resources and forests by leveraging the capital market. Currently, it collaborates with over 640 financial institutions holding more than 127 trillion US dollars in assets. CDP has the world's largest environmental database based on a TCFD-compliant questionnaire (Note 3), and the CDP score is widely used in investment and procurement decision-making to build a net-zero, sustainable and resilient economy.

Note 2: The evaluation method of CDP
CDP's scoring draws on a rigorous and independent methodology, aligned with the TCFD framework. It evaluates companies' depth of reporting, understanding of environmental risks, and evidence of best practice - including ambitious target-setting and verified action.

Note3: About TCFD
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is a task force established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in response to a request from the G20. Its purpose is to understand and disclose the financial impacts of the risks and opportunities brought about by climate change. In June 2017, it published recommendations on the approach to voluntary information disclosure.

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MOL Group 5 Sustainability Issues
MOL Group identifies "Sustainability Issues" (Materiality) as our key issues for sustainable growth with society through realization of the Group Vision. We anticipate this initiative to contribute especially to the realization of "Environment -Conservation for Marine and global environment-".