Konica Minolta Wins the Bronze Prize in the Seventh ESG Finance Awards Japan of the Ministry of the Environment

Tokyo (February 16, 2026) – Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced that the Company received the Bronze Prize (Selection Committee Chairman Awards) in the Environmentally Sustainable Company Category of the seventh ESG Finance Awards Japan hosted by the Ministry of the Environment on February 16, 2026.

The Environmentally Sustainable Company Category^*1 targets all listed companies and some unlisted companies, and commends companies that incorporate important environment-related opportunities and risks into their management strategies, seek to improve their corporate value, and have positive environmental impacts.

Evaluated Points (Statement by the Screening Secretariat of the ESG Finance Awards Japan)

Konica Minolta was highly evaluated for setting proactive and ambitious targets for addressing climate change, building a recycling-oriented society, and conserving biodiversity, seeing environmental issues as business opportunities, and monetizing support for customers in reducing CO₂ emissions and resource consumption. Regarding the TNFD^*2 disclosures, the Company identifies opportunities and risks in each business field based on scenario analysis, and presents a systematic action policy with AR3T^*3 in mind.

Konica Minolta’s Sustainability Strategy

With insight into social and environmental issues that are expected to become critical by 2030, Konica Minolta focuses on such material issues as “addressing climate change” and “using limited resources effectively.”

Notably, regarding “addressing climate change”, Konica Minolta has been working to help reduce CO₂ emissions outside its scope of responsibility to a level where such reductions exceed those within its scope of responsibility. The Company has been enhancing contributions to reducing CO₂ emissions of customers and society as a whole through provision of its proprietary solutions and technologies. The Carbon Minus status will be achieved by FY2025 as planned. The Company will also achieve net-zero emissions^*4 by 2050.

＊1 In the Environmentally Sustainable Company Category of the ESG Finance Awards Japan of the Ministry of the Environment
https://www.env.go.jp/policy/award.kigyobumon.html (in Japanese)

＊2 Abbreviation for “Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.” It is an international organization that helps companies manage risks related to natural capital and biodiversity and builds a disclosure framework.

＊3 AR3T：Acronym for Avoid, Reduce, Restore & Regenerate, and Transform. It is a framework for studying how to cope with nature-related risks and opportunities.

＊4 Net-zero：A state in which greenhouse gas emissions from the entire value chain of a company are substantially zero.