The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) recommends that companies identify and disclose the financial impacts of the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. expresses its support for the TCFD's recommendations and discloses the financial impacts based on the Framework.

The "Declaration to Build Partnerships" mechanism was established in May 2020 at the "Council for Promoting Partnership Building for the Future," whose members include relevant cabinet ministers (Cabinet Office, METI, MHLW, MAFF, MLIT, and the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary), Keidanren chairman, JCCI president, and the RENGO chairman. This "Declaration to Build Partnerships" is a declaration of efforts for cooperation, coexistence and co-prosperity with business partners in the supply chain and compliance with desirable business practices between parent companies and subcontractors (the Promotion Standards based on the Law for the Promotion of Small and Medium-sized Subcontractors): the prevention of unfair assignment on trade terms and conditions to subcontractors. The Group made the declaration in 2020 and is promoting cooperation with suppliers.

• Promoting Responsible Supply Chains

The each Group company in Japan have introduced a number of programs to help employees balance work and nursing care. These include nursing-care leave, family-care leave, shortened working hours for family care, and a system for returning employees to work after retirement for nursing care.

• Promoting Work Style Reform

NISSHINTOA IWAO INC. supports the activities of the Foundation for International Development/Relief (FIDR).

FIDR is an international cooperative NGO established in 1990. With the mission of "childcare," which fosters children into the future, and the "promotion of international cooperation by Japanese people and Japanese companies," FIDR provides support for the independence and economic growth of developing countries and emergency assistance in the event of natural disasters at home and abroad. In order to address poverty in developing countries, FIDR is implementing potential solutions in a variety of fields, including health and education. Currently, FIDR is mainly providing health and medical assistance in Cambodia, support for the independence of ethnic minorities in Vietnam, and rural development in Nepal.

NISSHINTOA IWAO INC., has been continuously donating to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a humanitarian support agency that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020, since 2007.

In agreement with the WFP intention to fight world famine, the company has become one of the councilors of the United Nations WFP Association, which is the official support window for the United Nations WFP in Japan. In addition to donations from the company and employees, the company participates in the WFP Walk the World (a charity walk aimed at eliminating hunger among children in developing countries) organized by the association and continues to support the "Donations Collected at Home" activity in which donations are made with unwanted postcards and other items.