Green Rankings 2012: Research Partners
The Newsweek Green Rankings were compiled in collaboration with two leading research organizations.
To produce the 2012 Newsweek Green Rankings, we joined forces with two leading environmental research firms, Trucost and Sustainalytics.
Trucost specializes in quantitative measurements of environmental performance and holds the most extensive data available on corporate environmental impacts. The company calculated the Environmental Impact Score for each company based on over 700 metrics, including greenhouse-gas emissions, water use, solid-waste disposal, and acid-rain emissions.
Sustainalytics is known for its credible and independent environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis and its vast universe of research coverage (including U.S., global and emerging markets companies). Its assessment of each company’s environmental policies, management systems, and programs informed the Environmental Management Score for this year’s Green Rankings.
The Green Rankings were created in 2009 with ASAP Media, a New York City media development firm founded by editors Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan. It specializes in creating magazine, book, and online content.
Greenest Companies
The Rankings Explained
A Closer Look at the Methodology
As part of a continued effort to improve our transparency, we are providing a deeper dive into scoring.
Methodology Webinar
Back in June, Newsweek and its research partners presented an online workshop about the methodology behind Green Rankings. Re-watch it here.
The Greenest Technology Yet
How green is a smartphone? Andrew Blum looked into the iPhone—and it turns out the news is good.
Fixing Weak Links in the Supply Chain
Companies ignore the magnitude of their supply-chain environmental impacts—and the environmental and financial risks and opportunities that they represent—at their own peril, writes James Salo.
Are Green Rankings a True Guide To Sustainability?
Changes in ranking methodology have led to a shakeup in the results, and have brought welcome transparency and empiricism to a complicated analysis. John Elkington reports.
What Green Rankings Don’t Tell You
Many firms that rank high on environmental lists also lobby for non-green policies, say Aaron Chatterji and Michael Toffel.
Workers Need Sustainability, Too
Even companies with broad and aggressive environmental commitments are neglecting a core component of sustainability: worker health and safety. Heather Lang reports.
‘Just Do It Differently’
The move toward sustainability is upending the old ways of doing business. These days, less really is more, says David J. Vidal.
Green Rankings: Big Movers Since 2011
Several notable companies moved up or down in the rankings since 2011.
Newsweek Green Rankings Benchmarking Service
We are offering a new rating option for companies not eligible for our U.S. and Global 500 lists.
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