Japan – NEC Publishes ESG Initiatives Supporting Sustainable Growth of Companies and Society in “ESG Databook 2025”

NEC Publishes ESG Initiatives Supporting Sustainable Growth of Companies and Society in “ESG Databook 2025”

TOKYO, September 16, 2025-(JCN Newswire )– NEC Corporation(NEC; TSE: 6701) has actually released the ESG Databook 2025, a report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance(ESG) efforts from April 2024 onwards.

NEC ESG Databook 2025
URL: https://www.nec.com/en/global/sustainability/report/index.html

As laid out in its Mid-term Management Plan 2025 (*), NEC intends to develop social and ecological worth through its organization, concentrating on development locations. As part of its monetary method, NEC is reinforcing its non-financial structures to support the sustainable development of the business and society. The ESG Databook 2025 was made up with recommendation to the 4 parts of sustainability info disclosure requirements of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ), including: “Governance,” “Strategy,” “Risk Management (including NEC’s unique approach to opportunity creation),” and “Metrics and Targets.”

As an outcome of these efforts, NEC continues to be consisted of in significant ESG indices, such as the Dow Jones Best-in-Class World Index and Asia Pacific Index, the FTSE4Good Index Series, and the MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes, which is among the monetary method targets embeded in the Mid-term Management Plan 2025.

The primary efforts detailed in the ESG Databook 2025 are as follows:

1. Efforts to promote organizations that add to carbon neutrality and efforts to decrease capital expenses

In action to growing interest in decarbonization amongst clients and society, NEC is presenting the “Client Zero” principle and particular efforts. These efforts include very first carrying out the most recent innovations internal to collect proficiency, and after that broadly releasing this proficiency to consumers through NEC’s worth production design, “BluStellar.” NEC likewise supplies more in-depth info in this report on its involvement in external ecological efforts and its participation with market companies.

Furthermore, for the 4th successive year, NEC has actually provided sustainability-linked bonds with KPIs based upon the strength of its ecological efforts, such as its choice as a CDP “A-List” (Climate Change) business for 6 successive years, to lower its capital expenses.

2. Promoting human capital management that supports technique and culture

NEC thinks about human capital management to be among its crucial management resources. To accomplish its function and the Mid-term Management Plan 2025, NEC is promoting efforts based upon method and culture, in addition to job-specific personnel management. By appointing the best individual to the best task at the correct time, NEC has the ability to react to modifications in the market environment and service requirements, allowing the business to carry out swift and durable organization methods.

In addition, NEC is promoting a cultural effort based upon the 3 pillars of “enhancing communication,” “fostering proactive learning and career development,” and “ensuring fair evaluations and offering competitive compensation,” to protect and establish personnels with ingenious concepts that drive its organization.

3. Enhancing security for NEC and society, and enhancing the acquisition and advancement of personnels

NEC performs service activities with substantial significance for society and for that reason thinks about cybersecurity and details security to be important problems in the social domain. Based upon Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s “Cybersecurity Management Guidelines Ver3.0,” and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s “Cybersecurity Framework (Version 2.0),” which was modified for the very first time in 10 years in February 2024, NEC is constructing a structure to enhance its preventive defenses versus progressing cyberattacks and to boost strength versus such dangers.

Cybersecurity Management Report 2025 (released in September 2025)
URL: https://www.nec.com/en/global/sustainability/security/index.html

Directed by the NEC Way, NEC intends to develop the social worths of security, security, fairness and performance and to promote a more sustainable world where everybody has the possibility to reach their complete capacity. NEC contributes to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by actively engaging with numerous stakeholders and leveraging the power of details and interactions innovations (ICT) to deal with social obstacles. In reaction to needs from society, info disclosure associated to sustainability is going through substantial modifications. To guarantee that stakeholders comprehend NEC’s technique to sustainability and its newest efforts, the business prepares to continue proactively divulging details through the publication of the ESG Databook and through direct discussion sessions.

(*)Mid-term Management Plan 2025
https://www.nec.com/en/global/ir/library/plan2025.html

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation has actually developed itself as a leader in the combination of IT and network innovations while promoting the brand name declaration of “Orchestrating a brighter world.” NEC makes it possible for companies and neighborhoods to adjust to quick modifications occurring in both society and the marketplace as it offers the social worths of security, security, fairness and effectiveness to promote a more sustainable world where everybody has the opportunity to reach their complete capacity. To find out more, go to NEC at https://www.nec.com.