Canonical: https://gx.finance/proposals/prop_smfg_2025_02/

[Skip to content](#main-content)

[← Proposal Explorer](https://gx.finance/proposals/)

# Partial amendment to the Articles of Incorporation: Disclosure of assessment of clients' climate change transition plans

This 2025 proposal at Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) received 14.79% (confirmed; company_disclosed) support; EDINET document and filing date: S100WAJ1 (2025-07-02).

[EDINET S100WAJ1 · 2025-07-02 ](https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100WAJ1.pdf) · [Markdown](https://gx.finance/proposals/prop_smfg_2025_02/index.md)

[Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG)](https://gx.finance/companies/smfg/) · FY2025

Proposal type: articles_amendment
Management recommendation: against
Result: failed
Civil-society organizations involved: Market Forces (Coalition participant), Friends of the Earth Japan (Coalition participant), Rainforest Action Network (Coalition participant), Kiko Network (Coalition participant)
Formal shareholder proposers (individuals): 3 shareholder(s)

The formal shareholder proposers are the individuals counted here, per the convocation notice. The organizations listed under "Civil-society organizations involved" are entities whose involvement in the proposal is confirmed from NGO and other public materials; this does not mean the organization is itself the legal proposer.

## Vote result

Support rate: 14.79%
Data quality: confirmed
Basis: company_disclosed
Basis note: Company-disclosed 賛成割合 per SMFG extraordinary report, AGM 2025-06-27, 第4号議案 (client transition plans), 否決. Vote counts verified via EDINET API (docID S100WAJ1), digit-exact.

## Vote-result evidence

primary_source

SMFG extraordinary report (臨時報告書, 議決権行使結果) — 2025 AGM

method: api · status: human_checked · [source](https://disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100WAJ1.pdf)

secondary_source · Draft extraction

Japan AGM megabanks and trading houses votes reveal big investors fail on climate risk (Asia Shareholder Action)

method: llm · status: unchecked · [source](https://shareholderaction.asia/japan-agm-megabanks-tradinghouses-votes-reveal-big-investors-fail-on-climate-risk/)

## Proposal evidence

primary_source

SMFG 第23期定時株主総会 招集ご通知

"第３号議案及び第４号議案は、株主３名からの共同提案によるものであります。"

method: regex · status: machine_extracted · [source](https://www.smfg.co.jp/investor/financial/meeting/2025_pdf/tuuti_202506.pdf)

secondary_source

Seven Tokyo Prime Market companies face climate votes (Kiko Network / Asia Shareholder Action)

method: manual · status: human_checked · [source](https://kikonet.org/content/37694)