NTT DATA Group selected as a CDP Supplier Engagement Leader for the Second Consecutive Year
Recognized for collaborative efforts with global suppliers on visualization and reduction of GHG emissions
March 8, 2024
NTT DATA Corporation
TOKYO – Mar 7, 2024 – NTT DATA Group, a global digital business and IT services leader, has been selected as the Supplier Engagement Leader for the second consecutive year based on the Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) by an international NGO CDP*1. The SER assesses how effectively a company is working with its suppliers on climate change challenges. CDP scores companies that respond to the CDP Climate Change Questionnaire (full version) based on the Supplier Engagement Rating (SER), in addition to the score for climate change. Companies with the highest ratings in SER are selected as Supplier Engagement Leaders. For details on scoring, please refer to 2023 CDP Supplier Engagement Rating Introduction and 2023 CDP Supplier Engagement Rating Methodology. NTT DATA Group formulated "NTT DATA NET-ZERO Vision 2040*2" in June 2023, a vision to achieve Net-Zero by 2040. NTT DATA aims to achieve Net-Zero for direct and indirect emissions from its own operations (Scope1, 2) for data centers by 2030, the entire company including offices and other facilities by 2035, and its entire supply chain (Scope3) by 2040. NTT DATA – a part of NTT Group – is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services headquartered in Tokyo. We help clients transform through consulting, industry solutions, business process services, IT modernization and managed services. NTT DATA enables clients, as well as society, to move confidently into the digital future. We are committed to our clients' long-term success and combine global reach with local client attention to serve them in over 50 countries. Visit us at nttdata.com.
NTT DATA Group received this recognition as a result of collaborative efforts with global suppliers on visualization and reduction of GHG emissions.
NTT DATA Group holds a strategic partnership with CDP. NTT DATA Group will drive Net-Zero for the clients and whole society together with CDP.
Regarding SER
Regarding NTT DATA Group's activities regarding climate change
Also, NTT DATA Group is promoting green innovation toward decarbonization of global society with CDP as CDP Gold Accredited Solutions Provider*3 and as a premium member of CDP Supply Chain Program*4. Further, in September 2023, NTT DATA Group and CDP have strengthened its strategic partnership*5 toward GHG reduction throughout the supply chain.
NTT DATA Group will continue to contribute to the realization of the whole society's carbon neutrality through the provision of the GHG emissions visualization platform "C-Turtle®*6", which visualizes GHG emissions throughout the supply chain, and its consulting services*7.Notes
CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world's environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Founded in 2000 and working with more than 740 financial institutions with over $136 trillion in assets, CDP pioneered using capital markets and corporate procurement to motivate companies to disclose their environmental impacts, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests.
Over 24,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2023, with more than 23,000 companies – including listed companies worth two thirds global market capitalization - and over 1,100 cities, states and regions. Fully TCFD aligned, CDP holds the largest environmental database in the world, and CDP scores are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions towards a zero carbon, sustainable and resilient economy. CDP is a founding member of the Science Based Targets initiative, We Mean Business Coalition, The Investor Agenda and the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.
In response to the growing call worldwide to accelerate measures to achieve Net-Zero carbon emissions, NTT DATA Group revised its previous plan formulated in 2021 for responding to climate change towards 2050 and newly formulated "NTT DATA NET-ZERO Vision 2040" with a goal to achieve Net-Zero by 2040.
https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/news/press-release/2023/june/ntt-data-formulates-new-vision-for-net-zero-ghg-emmissions-by-2040
NTT DATA Group became the first Japanese company to be recognized as a CDP Gold Accredited Solutions Provider on March 1, 2022.
https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/news/press-release/2022/march/ntt-data-recognized-as-cdp-gold-accredited-solutions-provider
NTT DATA Group became the first Japanese company to join the CDP Supply Chain Program as a premium member on April 1, 2022.
https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/news/press-release/2022/april/ntt-data-to-join-cdp-supply-chain-program-as-a-premium-member
NTT DATA Group strengthened its strategic partnership with the CDP on September 13, 2023 with the aim of reducing GHG emissions across supply chain.
https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/news/press-release/2023/september/ntt-data-strengthens-partnership-with-cdp
C-Turtle is GHG emissions visualization platform that "Company-wide Emission Allocation Method" is used for the first time in Japan.
https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/news/press-release/2022/august/ntt-data-launched-japans-first-greenhouse-gas-emissions-visualization-service-incorporating-data
NTT DATA Groups provides green consulting service and consulting service on TCFD and information disclosure for nature and biodiversity.
Press release only in Japanese:
Green consulting service
https://www.nttdata.com/global/ja/news/release/2022/011400/
Consulting service on TCFD (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures)
https://www.nttdata.com/global/ja/news/release/2022/072700/
Consulting service on information disclosure for nature and biodiversity according to TNFD framework
https://www.nttdata.com/global/ja/news/release/2023/051600/
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NTT DATA Corporation
Sustainability Innovation Department
Green Innovation Office
Tsunemi, Miyamoto
climate@kits.nttdata.co.jp