TOCALO Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kobe, Hyogo; President and CEO: Kazuya Kobayashi) has been awarded a "B Score"—the third-highest rating in an eight-tier evaluation—for the third consecutive year in the 2025 "Climate Change" questionnaire conducted by CDP(*), an international non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, in the "Water Security" questionnaire, TOCALO improved by one tier from the previous year and was awarded a "B Score." In addition, TOCALO was awarded the highest rating of "A Score" for the first time in the "Supplier Engagement Assessment (SEA)" conducted by the same organization.

 

This assessment evaluates corporate initiatives on an eight-tier scale (A, A-, B, B-, C, C-, D, D-) in terms of target setting, business strategies, awareness of risks and opportunities, and disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, all related to climate change and water resources. Among these, the SEA targets five categories reported by companies in the "Climate Change" questionnaire: supplier engagement, governance, business strategy, targets, Scope 3 emissions, and risk management processes. It evaluates emissions reduction activities across a company's entire supply chain, which are difficult to reflect solely in the climate change score.

We place addressing climate change issues as one of our key management priorities and are strengthening our response to environmental issues through initiatives such as reducing GHG emissions across our entire supply chain and developing coating technologies that contribute to decarbonization. Furthermore, toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2040, we will accelerate measures to reduce environmental impact, including thorough recycling, energy conservation, energy creation, and the introduction of resource-saving equipment.

 

 

Moving forward, we will continue to actively address social issues through our business activities and strive toward the realization of a sustainable society.

 

TOCALO Sustainability Website: https://www.tocalo.co.jp/english/sustainability/

 

 

* CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project. A non-profit organization established in 2000, headquartered in London, UK. Based on requests from global institutional investors and major purchasing companies with a high interest in environmental issues, its primary activity is to address global environmental challenges by requesting, analyzing, and evaluating information disclosure on environmental issue countermeasures—such as climate change actions, water resource protection, and forest conservation—from private companies and local governments in major countries. In 2025, approximately 22,100 companies, representing more than half of the global market capitalization, disclosed data through CDP.

 

CDP Japan Website: https://www.cdp.net/en

 

 

Note: This document has been translated from the Japanese original for reference purposes only. In the event of any discrepancy between this translated document and the Japanese original, the original shall prevail.

 

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