Tata, POSCO and BlueScope among world’s most sustainable corporations

Monday, 01 February 2010 17:01:06 (GMT+3)   |  
       

Three steelmakers have recently been rated among the top 100 most sustainable corporations in the world by Canada-based Corporate Knights, ‘the magazine for clean capitalism.'

Corporate Knights announced its sixth annual global list of the world's 100 most sustainable corporations at the World Economic Forum at Davos.

Australia's BlueScope, India-based Tata and South Korea's POSCO ranked 53rd, 90th and 93rd in the list which was led by American industry giant General Electric, US energy-based holding PG & E Corp. and Dutch transportation and distribution group TNT respectively.

The key performance indicators that were assessed included energy productivity, CO2 productivity, water productivity, waste productivity, leadership diversity, CEO-to-average worker pay, percentage of tax paid, sustainability leadership, sustainability pay link, innovation capacity and transparency.