Our Company's Sustainability Management Committee is made up of mainly chief officers (executive officers) of our business divisions, which are executive organizations, who are well versed in their respective businesses, and the Chief Officer of Corporate Planning (executive officer) who oversees our Group's basic management policy and strategy and the distribution of management resources and who also serves as the committee chair. The Sustainability Management Committee discusses the climate-related risks that are identified and evaluated by the sales divisions. It is also responsible for calculating our Group's CO2 emissions on a regular basis, as well as discussing the factors contributing to increase or decrease of emissions and measures for improvement to ensure comprehensive risk management. The Board of Directors receives regular reports from the Sustainability Management Committee and monitors and supervises the comprehensive management of climate-related risks in our Group. [...] We are promoting initiatives to build a low-carbon and recycling-oriented society as a member of the Global Environment Committee of the Japan Foreign Trade Council,Inc (JFTC), an industry association for trading companies. We will also continue to support the JFTC's \"Long-term Vision for Climate Change Countermeasures\", which aligns with our policies and goals.