Mitsubishi Materials Selected as Component of Stock Price Indexes for ESG Investment

MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index

The ESG Select Leaders Index is an index of companies that are carrying out outstanding ESG activities, which are selected from the MSCI Japan IMI Top 500 Index. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has been selected as a component of the index since July 2017.

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MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index ("WIN")

WIN is an index of companies that are more gender diversified than others in their industries, selected from an index of the top 500 Japanese stocks by market capitalization. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has been selected as a component of the index since July 2017.

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• * The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), which manages and operates employee pension and national pension deposits, links its operations to ESG indexes of Japanese stocks in order to make investments that consider Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) factors.
  The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index and MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index ("WIN") have both been selected as ESG indexes by the GPIF.

MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes

Created by MSCI Japan, the index is developed by selecting companies demonstrating outstanding ESG activities in their industries.

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• * THE INCLUSION OF MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION 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 MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION 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.

ECPI

ECPI is an investment management consulting firm based in Luxembourg and Milan that specializes in sustainable investments. Comprising multiple ESG indexes arranged by industry, region and theme, ECPI maintains indexes for each industry, region and theme made up of global companies that have met certain standards in their ESG-related activities. Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has been selected as a component of the index since December 2018.

CDP

CDP is a non-profit organization based in London, UK, and operating an international framework project to require top market capitalization companies to disclose their strategies and data on “climate change” and “water risk” collaborating with institutional investors. On an eight-stage scale from A to D⁻, we were evaluated as CDP Climate Change “B” and CDP Water “B⁻” in FY2020.

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