Here is the eleventh annual Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada in2012 as reviewed by
the Miratel blog. The list was compiled and published by Corporate
Knights. Corporate
Knights “is a media, research and financial products company focused on
quantifying and animating clean capitalism drivers for decision makers.”
Corporate Knights is a source of objective, data-driven ‘clean capitalism’
ratings for over 2000 companies globally.”
There is growing recognition among the country’s biggest companies that
business-as-usual isn’t a sustainable option over the long term” Tyler Hamilton,
Editor-In-Chief Corporate Knights.
Corporate Knights ranked these companies in terms of
their use or production of energy, carbon, water, waste. They also factored
their clean capitalism pay link, sustainability themed board, percentage of
women and minorities on their boards, the taxes paid, ratio of highest-paid to
average employee compensation, DB pension plan assists/pension obligations, and
core business impact score.
Below you will find the top 15 Canadian companies
according to Corporate Knights’ latest report and their score:
- Desjardins Group: 84.86 % (read the top company spotlight
- Vancouver City Savings: 84.01 %
- Co-operators Group: 82.21 %
- Canadian National Railway Co.:
79.12 % - Royal Bank of Canada: 77.88 %
- Mountain Equipment Co-op: 76.09 %
- Hydro One: 75.62 %
- Enbridge Inc.: 74.98 %
- First Quantum Minerals Ltd.: 74.65 %
- HSBC Bank Canada: 74.26 %
- SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.: 73.22 %
- Enmax Corporation: 73.20 %
- Nexen Inc.:
72.42 % - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.:
72.26 %
- Cascades Inc.: 70.99 %
For the complete list click here.
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