Top Companies Focused on Sustainability
May 23
Other companies within the top ten include: Umicore, the Belgian materials and technology group; Intel, the well-known U.S. technology company; Astrazeneca, the United Kingdom based pharmaceutical company; Credit Agricole, the banking group in France, Storebrand, the financial services corporation based in Norway and Denmark’s Danske Bank.
There have been a lot of other companies that have shifted positions, many of them lowering their ranks on the top one hundred. One of the previous giants of sustainability was General Electric. G.E. fell to the eleventh spot this year. Tata Steel in India dropped to 27th position; U.S. based Johnson Controls to number twenty nine and Japan’s Sony was immediately behind. Other companies that have experienced a change in positioning include Proctor & Gamble and Kraft Foods in the U.S., as well as Tokyo Gas Company; with Stora Enso, a Finnish pulp and paper company also trailing in the ranks.
An interesting note is that of the top ten companies on the sustainability chart, eight are European. This may be due to the increased regulations within the European arena, but also may reflect the fact that the U.S. is not including sustainability as a priority incentive for the U.S. based companies.
Compiling the list of those corporations that qualify as well as the methods used are an intricate process and involves outside companies without vested interests in any of the company names submitted. The criteria is evaluated long and hard and, it might seem rather strange that an oil and gas company would be included in the top ranking numbers, but they have proven a high level of waste management with a lot of investment in renewable energy dollars.
Sources:
http://www.bus-ex.com/article/sustainability-top-100-companies
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