Social Trends Surrounding Sustainability

Today, sustainability initiatives are being promoted around the world.
Common international goals such as the SDGs, which aim to realize a sustainable and better society, and the Paris Agreement, a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, have been set. In addition, various sustainability-related initiatives and international frameworks are being developed to ensure that all countries are working in tandem to achieve these goals.

Image: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Japan Post Insurance supports the SDGs

Our Approach (for sustainable value creation)

Our predecessor, Postal Life Insurance Business, was launched with the social mission of “protecting the means of fundamental livelihood of the public through simple procedures.” We have been privatized, but our mission to support people’s lives through insurance has not changed.
And now, under our management philosophy “Be a trustful partner for people, always being close at hand and endeavoring to protect their well-being,” we are advancing the promotion of sustainability based on the concept of helping to resolve social issues and working to achieve SDGs by fulfilling our social mission (purpose) and meeting social needs in an age of the 100-year life.

Our Five Priority Challenges (Materiality)

We has identified the following five materiality items (important issues) and promotes various initiatives in line with them in order to fulfill our social mission and address various issues related to sustainability.

External Evaluation

Thanks to these initiatives on priority challenges and information disclosures, we have been selected for inclusion in these two notable ESG investment indices:

Note 1: Government Pension Investment Fund

In addition, We have also been recognized recognized by ISS, a U.S. voting advisory company, with the Prime Status designation and achieved evaluations placing us in the top 10% of around 200 companies in the global insurance industry.

Note 2: The Responsible Investment division of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a U.S. shareholder voting advisory company. (as of June 2024).(https://www.issgovernance.com/esg/ratings/)

Please refer to our sustainability sites, etc.
for more information on initiatives

Above, we have provided an introduction to our sustainability promotion measures.
If you wish to know more about our specific initiatives and other detailed information, we invite you to browse our sustainability site (”Sustainability” on our website), sustainability report, and integrated report.

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Sustainability Meeting for Investors (October 9, 2024)