New Reports Grade Sustainability Reporting of 120 Large Companies in Five Sectors

New Reports Grade Sustainability Reporting of 120 Large Companies in Five
Sectors

Roberts Environmental Center analyzes the World's largest companies in the
motor vehicles & parts, forest & paper products, industrial & farm equipment;
consumer food, food production & beverages; and telecommunications, network &
peripherals sectors

CLAREMONT, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Roberts Environmental Center of
Claremont McKenna College (CMC) today released a detailed analysis of the
social responsibility reporting efforts of many of the World's top
corporations. The five reports contain compilations of Pacific Sustainability
Index scores evaluating the environmental and social reporting of the largest
companies on the 2008 Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 1000 lists.

The reports score companies based on the reporting, intent, and performance of
environmental and social sustainability efforts. The research, based entirely
on material released on the firms' Web sites, gives grades of A+ to Johnson
Controls, Toyota, General Motors, and Daimler AG in the motor vehicles and
parts sector; Stora Enso in the forest and paper products sector; ABB in the
industrial and farm equipment sector; Coca Cola in the consumer food, food
production, and beverages sectors; and France Telecom and Vodafone in the
telecommunications, network, and peripherals sector.

"In this round of reporting, more companies than ever before are in the top
quarter of the overall range of scores," said J. Emil Morhardt, Roberts
Professor of Environmental Biology at CMC and director of the Roberts
Environmental Center. "Clearly, sustainability reporting is continuing to be
adopted, at least in these large corporations." But, as Morhardt pointed out,
"Although there is a general size effect in the quality of reporting in most
sectors in this sample there are smaller companies that do a very good job."

To create the report's ranking, Morhardt and his team evaluated each company's
Web site using the Pacific Sustainability Index including sector-specific
questions. The index uses a general systematic questionnaire to analyze the
quality of sustainability reporting. The selection of questions was based on
the most frequently-mentioned topics in almost 1,800 corporate sustainability
documents analyzed from 2002 through 2008 by the Roberts Environmental Center.
The company's grades in this report were assigned on a grading curve, giving
an A+ to the highest scoring companies and those with scores near it.

"In the current business climate, a demonstration of corporate social
responsibility is more important than ever," continued Morhardt. "What we are
analyzing is the quality of that demonstration -- how transparent the
companies are with respect to their environmental and social issues, and how
good a job they are doing resolving any problems they currently have and
avoiding future ones."

The detailed analyses also reveal what social and environmental themes these
companies perceive to be most important to the American public today. The
research screened Web site content to determine the most frequently reported
topics. Companies with environmental achievements tended to tout their
accountability and energy efficiency efforts while socially responsible
businesses highlighted their superior policies and care for human rights.

To view the complete reports, visit:
http://www.roberts.cmc.edu/PSI/SectorReports.asp.

About Roberts Environmental Center
The Roberts Environmental Center is an environmental research institute at
Claremont McKenna College located in Claremont, Calif. Its mission is to
provide students with a comprehensive and realistic understanding of today's
environmental issues and the ways in which these issues are being and can be
resolved. The Center strives to identify, publicize, and encourage policies
and practices that achieve economic and social goals in the most
environmentally benign and protective manner.

Scoring Summary

Highest Highest
Highest Environmental Social Lowest
Industrial Overall Reporting Reporting Overall
Sector Scores Scores Scores Scores

Consumer Food, Coca-Cola Coca-Cola PepsiCo Coca-Cola
Food PepsiCo Groupe Danone H.J. Heinz Enterprises
Production, InBev InBev Company Pilgrims
and Beverages Coca-cola Pride
Sector Land O
Lakes

Forest and Stora Enso Weyerhaeuser Stora Enso Universal
Paper International NewPage Corp. International Forest
Products Paper Stora Enso Paper Products
Weyerhaeuser Weyerhaeuser Plum Creek
Timber
Potlatch

Industrial ABB Cummins ABB Teleflex Inc.
and Farm Cummins ABB Black and Nacco
Equipment Black and Komatsu Ltd. Decker Industries
Decker ITT Corp. Komatsu Ltd.

Motor Vehicle Toyota Motor Volkswagen General Motors China FAW
and Parts Johnson Johnson Ford Motor Shanghai
Controls Controls Toyota Motor Automotive
General Motors Daimler AG Koc Holding
Daimler AG

Tele- France France Telecom Vodafone Softbank
communications Telecom Telecom Italia Telefonica Carso Global
Vodafone Nippon Telecom Telecom
Telecom Telegraph Italia KDDI
Italia and Telephone

SOURCE Claremont McKenna College

Dorothy Buchanan of Claremont McKenna College, Public Affairs,
+1-909-477-9764