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Canon receives top-level Supplier Engagement Leader award from international non-profit organization CDP program recognizing supplier engagement

TOKYO, August 4, 2025—Canon Inc. announced today that the company has been named a Supplier Engagement Leader in the 2024 CDP Supplier Engagement Assessment by the U.K. based non-profit organization CDP¹ for the fourth time, with the last time being 2022.

The Supplier Engagement Assessment recognizes companies that work effectively with suppliers toward efforts to respond to climate change. Companies from around the world are surveyed, with only those who receive the highest evaluation earning the title of Supplier Engagement Leader.

Under its corporate philosophy of kyosei, Canon aims to realize a society that achieves a beneficial balance between lifestyle enrichment and the environment. In 2008, the company established a target of an average annual 3% improvement in the index of life cycle CO₂ emissions per product unit, and aims to sustainably reduce product life cycle CO₂ emissions not only at its own facilities, but also in the emissions of its partners throughout the company’s supply chain.

As for initiatives toward supplier engagement to achieve its medium-term goals, Canon works together with suppliers to reduce CO₂ through measures such as visualizing CO₂ emissions and adopting materials and parts that produce low amounts of CO₂ emissions. Furthermore, in order to address key issues such as climate change, Canon has formulated and distributed guidelines which compile requests for cooperation and surveys to business partners, and works to strengthen sustainability procurement in supply chains. In addition, GHG emission data including Scope 3 is assured² by a third-party entity. Canon recognizes that such initiatives for sustainability led to its selection as a Supplier Engagement Leader.

Together with its suppliers, Canon promotes initiatives towards net-zero GHG emissions throughout the life cycle of its products.

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  Established in 2000. Acting on behalf of such organizations as institutional investors and major consumer businesses, the CDP supports a singular global system whereby businesses and cities measure, disclose, manage and share important environmental information including climate change countermeasures, water resource conservation and forestry protection. In 2024, over 24,800 corporate enterprises responded to information requests.

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  Canon has received third-party assurance from LRQA Limited. For more information, please visit the following website: https://global.canon/en/sustainability/assurance/

* Text appearing in red was revised on August 8, 2025.