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Message from the Chief Sustainability Officer

Message from theChief Sustainability Officer

Yoshimitsu Goto
Board Director, Corporate Officer,Senior Vice President, CFO, CISO & CSusO

Corporate ESG initiatives are becoming increasingly significant amid emerging global risks,such as the spread of COVID-19, that see no end in sight and a rising number of natural
disasters in recent years caused by extreme global weather conditions.
Recognizing their significance, SoftBank Group Corp. built an internal foundation andenhanced information disclosure in fiscal 2020 to further strengthen ESG initiatives. In June
2020, I was appointed as Chief Sustainability Officer (CSusO), and we established ourSustainability Committee. Since then, we have gained a better understanding of the ESG
initiatives that had been undertaken separately by each Group company, discussed them at
the management level, and began establishing Group-wide policies and targets.
On the environmental front, our major subsidiaries have already taken proactive measures
to fight climate change, such as expanding renewable energy businesses and setting targets
for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We believe that now is the time to take more
concrete action, and in fiscal 2020, we achieved carbon neutrality. In the future, we will takefurther steps, such as defining climate-related group targets, as we work to reduce theenvironmental impact of the entire Group.

Sustainability Report 2021

Also, as one of our key initiatives as an investment company, we revised the “Portfolio
Company Governance and Investment Guidelines Policy” to incorporate ESG perspectives
into our investment process in May 2021. We made it clear that both opportunities and risks
arising from environmental and social factors should be evaluated within the investment andmonitoring process. In the same manner, as we meet the expectations and demands ofinvestors and other stakeholders and enhance our ESG initiatives, we believe that proactivelyencouraging our portfolio companies to take ESG initiatives will contribute significantly tothe sustainable development of society as a whole and the sustainable development of theGroup. Going forward, we will formulate specific implementation plans to evaluate
opportunities and risks at each of our investment business subsidiaries.
We are now at the implementation stage to realize our ESG goals and policies. In addition
to further enhancing nonfinancial information disclosure, we will strive to strengthen ourESG initiatives throughout the Group so that we can report our progress to investors andother stakeholders.

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offer to buy or subscribe for any securities in any jurisdiction.
This report contains forward-looking statements, beliefs or opinions regarding the Group, such as statements about the Group’s futurebusiness and future position, including estimates, forecasts, targets and plans for the Group. None of the Group nor its management gives
any assurance that the estimates expressed in these forward-looking statements will turn out to be correct, and actual results or
performance could materially differ from expectations.

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