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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust

Assessment year: 2018

Total score

2 out of 5

Awareness, understanding and intent

2 out of 5

Commodity

2 out of 5

Scope

2 out of 5

Implementation, monitoring and reporting

0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2017

Total score

0 out of 5

Awareness, understanding and intent

0 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

2 out of 5

Overall forest policy

2 out of 5

Policy strength

1 out of 5

Reporting and transparency

3 out of 5

Assessment year: 2015

Total score

2 out of 5

Overall forest policy

2 out of 5

Policy strength

1 out of 5

Reporting and transparency

4 out of 5

Assessment year: 2014

Total score

2 out of 5

Overall forest policy

2 out of 5

Policy strength

1 out of 5

Reporting and transparency

2 out of 5

Financial institution type

Asset manager, Bank

Japan

Collective commitments

Banking Environment Initiative member

New York Declaration on Forests signatory

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

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holding are a financial services company headquartered in Japan serving private, corporate and institutional clients. Their services include asset management, inheritance and succession, property administration, loans, investment support, and insurance. As of 2017, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holding’s total assets amount to over 63 trillion YEN with over 28 trillion YEN worth of loans. They are an important shareholder in Forest 500 companies, ranking among the top 40, with shares worth more than 12 billion USD. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holding are also among the top 40 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with loans amounting to more than 7 billion USD across a broad range of forest risk sectors.

Disclaimer

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