Sumitomo Chemical : Receives CDP's Highest Rating in Corporate Climate Action Survey for the Second Consecutive Year
January 20, 2020 at 08:25 am EST
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Sumitomo Chemical ('the Company') has been named to CDP's highest-rated 'Climate A List 2019' as a company demonstrating excellent performance in responding to the issue of climate change. The Company is in the A list for the second consecutive year.
Established in 2000, CDP is an international non-governmental organization that promotes initiatives by companies and governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, manage water resources, and conserve forests. Representing institutional investors around the world, CDP collects and evaluates information about leading companies' activities related to climate change. In CDP's survey of 2019, the Climate A List named 179 global companies and 38 Japanese companies selected from among about 8,000 companies that disclosed information on their climate change-related activities.
Sumitomo Chemical identified reducing environmental impact as one of the material issues that it addresses as management priorities, and established key performance indicators (KPIs) for each material issue in November 2019. With regards to reducing environmental impact, among other initiatives, the Company set KPIs for the amount of Group's GHG emissions certified by Science Based Targets (SBT)1 and KPIs for the sales revenues of Sumika Sustainable Solutions2 designated products.
Embracing the Company's business philosophy of 'working to contribute to society through our business activities,' Sumitomo Chemical and all companies of its Group aim to achieve sustainable growth and help bring about a sustainable society by creating economic value and social value in an integrated manner.
Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd is one of the Japanese largest chemical groups. The group is also manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- petrochemical and plastic products (25.8%): ethylene, polyethylene, propylene, elastomers, agricultural films, etc.;
- pharmaceutical products (23.9%): ethic drugs, radiopharmaceutical products, etc.;
- telecommunication chemical products (18.9%): optic films, pigments, filters, etc.;
- agrochemical and fine chemistryproducts (18.5%): insecticides, herbicides, fertilizers, food additives, etc.;
- functional chemical products (10.7%): methanol, caustic soda, aluminum hydroxide, alumina, nitric acid, acrylonitrile, active pharmaceutical ingredients, polymeric additives, resorcine, colorants, etc.;
- other (2.2%).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (31.7%), China (19.2%), Asia (19.5%), North America (17.7%), Europe (4.2%) and other (7.7%).
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 
