Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Koichi Muto) has announced that it has been commended by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP, *1) as one of the leading companies in the disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for climate change, based on high scores in the CDP’s analysis of its approaches to information disclosure.
In accordance with the environmental strategy in the midterm management plan “Gear Up! MOL”, the company has promoted activities to offer solutions with a lower environmental burden, including the next-generation vessel concept “Sempaku ISHIN”. MOL’s commitment to protecting the environment and aggressive disclosure of environmental information played a key role in this selection.
The MOL Group is united in contributing to sustainable worldwide economic growth through efforts towards the coexistence of services that meet customer needs and environmental protection.
*1) The CDP is an international not-for-profit organization, formed in the U.K. in 2000, that represents 655 institutional investors with $78 trillion in assets promotes corporate disclosure of climate change information. CDP collects and scores information regarding climate change from companies and officially announces the disclosed data. This year, the organization targeted 500 large Japanese companies by market capitalization, based on the FTSE Japan Index.