Nomura

Assessment year: 2018

Total score 
1 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 out of 5
Commodity 
0 out of 5
Scope 
0 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
1 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 out of 5
Commodity 
0 out of 5
Scope 
0 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2016

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2015

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2014

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
0 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Asset manager
HQ 
Japan

Collective commitments

Banking Environment Initiative member
No
New York Declaration on Forests signatory
No

150 Financial institutions

Investors and lenders need to adopt and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria that ensure their investments are not funding deforestation. For analysis of how the financial sector is performing click here.

This assessment has been carried out following the assessment methodology developed for the Forest 500 project.

Profile 

Nomura Partners Funds are a financial services group headquartered in Japan serving private, corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services include retail, asset management, global markets and investment banking. As of 2017, Nomura Partners Funds’ total assets amount to over 42 trillion Yen with over 3 trillion Yen in loans. They are among the top 15 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with loans amounting to more than 13 billion USD across a broad range of forest risk sectors. They are also an important shareholder in Forest 500 companies, ranking among the top 60 with shares worth over 6 billion USD.

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Score
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Score
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Score
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Score
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