Dec 16, 2025
Sustainability / Press Releases
4th Consecutive A-List Ranking for Climate Change; Water Security Jumps Two Ranks for First A-List Placement
Osaka, Japan, December 16, 2025 – Panasonic Holdings Corporation (Panasonic HD) has been named by CDP*1, an international non-profit organization, as an A-list company*2—the highest rating—in its climate change and water security categories for 2025.
Panasonic HD earned an A-list ranking in the climate change category for a fourth consecutive year. In the water security category, which evaluates water resource conservation efforts, the company was recognized for implementing water resource risk assessments using the LEAP approach recommended by TNFD*3. This marks the first time that Panasonic HD has achieved an “A” rating in this category since it began responding to CDP surveys in 2010. In 2024, 462 companies—representing approximately 2% of global companies evaluated—made the A list in the climate change category; of these, 78 companies achieved a double “A” rating in both climate change and water security. This year, Panasonic HD has earned this honor.
CDP is widely recognized as the global standard for corporate environmental reporting, and the ratings published annually by CDP are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions toward a net zero, sustainable and resilient economy. The importance of standardized environmental data continues to grow, and today, more than 24,800 companies—representing approximately two-thirds of the global market value, including 85% of the S&P 500 and 93% of the FTSE 100—report environmental information through CDP.
Earning an “A” rating from CDP indicates that a company has been evaluated as positioning climate change and water resource issues as a critical management issue, and recognizes that the company is appropriately managing governance, strategy, risk management, metrics, and targets in alignment with the TCFD*4 and the TNFD*3, which helps the company to build trust with investors and customers and facilitate its business. Panasonic HD has been recognized for its ambitious and meaningful goals addressing and resolving climate change and water resource issues, emission reduction activities, and for the transparency and comprehensiveness of its information disclosure—including the certification of its Net Zero Target by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)*5. The entire Panasonic Group is united in its commitment to advancing sustainability.
Committed to making sure that our children and grandchildren, and future generations can enjoy a healthy environment, the Panasonic Group will continue to promote efforts to solve global environmental problems and transparent disclosure of environmental information to achieve the mission of realizing “an ideal society with affluence both in matter and mind.”
*1: CDP is an international NGO headquartered in the United Kingdom. It conducts activities to urge companies and local governments to disclose information about their environmental measures.
*2: CDP rates companies using nine grades (A, A-, B, B-, C, C-, D, D-, and F).
*3: Task force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
*4: Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD): A framework for disclosing financial information on corporate climate change initiatives and impacts. The TCFD was established by the Financial Stability Board, which consists of central banks and other institutions from various countries, in response to a request from the G20.
*5: Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi): A joint initiative by CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The Panasonic Group has set forth its long-term environmental vision, “Panasonic GREEN IMPACT,” with the aim of achieving both a better life and a sustainable global environment for all. Under PGI, Panasonic Group strives towards achieving virtually net zero CO2 emissions from its own operations by 2030, and will contribute an impact of more than 300 million tons*6 of reduced and avoided CO2, which is equivalent to about 1 percent of the current global total of approximately 31.7 billion tons*7 by 2050. The group also works on business activities to realize a circular economy in which resource efficiency contributes to decarbonization and reduces the consumption of limited natural resources.
*6: CO2 Emission factor based on 2020
*7: 31.7 billion tons of energy-derived CO2 emissions in 2020 (Source: IEA)
https://holdings.panasonic/global/corporate/panasonic-green-impact.html
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