The most trusted index for companies' environmental and sustainability index developed by Dow Jones & Company in 1999. The index surveys over 3,400 companies included in the Dow Jones Global Index around the world on their economic, environmental, and societal aspects. The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index selected Sumitomo Forestry for inclusion as a brand in December 2022. This is the 15th time Sumitomo Forestry has been selected as a member for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices series.

Sumitomo Forestry received the highest valuation "Gold Class" in sustainability rating of the S&P Global Inc., a global company responsible for evaluating social responsibility investment (SRI), for the fifth consecutive year. In 2023, we received a score of 83 out of 100, the highest in the housing construction sector. Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. has been consecutively selected in the fourth years with the highest valuation "Gold Class" in sustainability rating of the S&P Global Corporation, a global company responsible for evaluating social responsibility investment (SRI). S&P Global Corporation evaluate initiatives in economic, environmental, and social aspects of 7,800 large-scale enterprises or more worldwide, and publishes the top 15% of these enterprises in each of 61 industries in the "Sustainability Yearbook 2023" as "Company with excellent sustainability". Among these, the top 1%, top 5% and top 10% of companies are selected as particularly excellent. A total of 84 Japanese companies were selected as company with excellent sustainability with just three of these, including Sumitomo Forestry, in the top 1%.

Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. has been selected by "Climate Change A List" as an enterprise in the seventh consecutive year - which achieves highest rating from CDP, a NGO, making a sustainable society come true. Since the evaluation criteria were changed in 2016, only four Japanese enterprises, including Sumitomo Forestry, have been selected in the seventh consecutive year.

* CDP Forest: A-　　CDP Water: C

Evaluation of companies that fulfill international standards in environment, social, and governance aspects by FTSE Russell, a group company of London Stock Exchange. Sumitomo Forestry has been consecutively included in the FTSE4Good Global Index every year since 2004.

FTSE Blossom Japan Index

An ESG index for Japanese stocks by FTSE Russell, Ltd. and selected by the Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan (GPIF) as one of the ESG indices in July 2017.

MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index

Index for Japanese stocks selected by the Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan (GPIF) as one of the ESG indices in July 2017. Companies with relatively excellent ESG with "MSCI Japan IMI top 700 stocks by market capitalization" as parent index evaluating companies within the industry.

MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN)

Index for Japanese stocks selected by the Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan (GPIF) as one of the ESG indices in July 2017. Companies with relatively excellent ESG with "MSCI Japan IMI top 700 stocks by market capitalization" as parent index evaluating companies within the industry.

* The inclusion of Sumitomo Forestry in any MSCI Index, and the use of MSCI logos, trademarks, service marks or index names herein, do not constitute a sponsorship, endorsement or promotion of Sumitomo Forestry by MSCI or any of its affiliates. The MSCI Indexes are the exclusive property of MSCI. MSCI and the MSCI Index names and logos are trademarks or service marks of MSCI or its affiliates.

S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index

Discloses the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index, jointly developed as an environmental index by the Japan Exchange Group, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the S&P Dow Jones Index.

The Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan (GPIF) selected the S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index as a benchmark for ESG investment strategy from fiscal 2018.

Bloomberg selected Sumitomo Forestry as part of the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) in January 2023. This is the third consecutive year that Sumitomo Forestry has been selected as a GEI index companies. GEI is an index that evaluates the transparency of corporate informational disclosure on gender as well as company's gender equality initiatives and performance. The GEI assessed our gender equality initiatives and selected Sumitomo Forestry as one of 485 companies with head offices in 45 countries and regions (15 of which are Japanese companies).

The SOMPO Sustainability Index is an ESG evaluation by Sompo Asset Management Co., Ltd. Evaluated based on an environmental survey by Sompo Risk Management and a social and governance survey by IntegreX Inc., Sumitomo Forestry has been consecutively included in the SOMPO Sustainability Index since fiscal 2013.