A United Nations Report release on Feb 19th found the top 3,000 companies cause $2.2 trillion dollars in environmental damage every year.
The report is being compiled by the United Kingdom-based environmental consulting firm Trucost, and is based on eight years of research on large companies. One of the challenges Trucost faced was in assessing a company’s environmental impact through the entire supply chain, assessing the impact of not only a company, but also their suppliers, often located in countries where there are fewer regulations and records.
The report was based on green house gas emissions, local pollutions, particulate emissions, and use of timber and water. The names of companies were not released but the report did say the include all the 500 companies on the Standards and Poor List.
Interestingly these same companies can be found on The 2009 List of Green Rankings.
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