Recognition
RBC named one of world's Top 100 sustainable companies
January 24, 2007 — RBC has been named one of
the world's top 100 sustainable companies, according to the
third annual "Global 100" ranking announced in the
January 29 edition of BusinessWeek magazine, and to
be unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
this week.
The Global 100 list, based on research and analysis by Innovest
Strategic Value Advisors and Corporate Knights, identifies
companies that have the best-developed abilities, relative
to their industry peers, to manage environmental, social and
governance risks and opportunities. The companies were selected
from the Innovest universe of 1,800 publicly-traded companies.
Companies were rated on such criteria as strategic governance,
environmental initiatives, and human capital/labour relations
practices.
This is the third consecutive year that RBC has been named
to the Global 100 list. The full Global 100 list can be found
online.
This honour adds to an impressive suite of recognition garnered
by RBC for programs and performance related to sustainability
and corporate responsibility. RBC is listed on the 2007 Dow
Jones Sustainability Index, recognizing the world's financial,
social and environmental corporate leaders, as well as the
Jantzi Social Index and the FTSE4Good Index.
In 2006, RBC submitted our fourth annual response to the
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), sponsored by a coalition
of 225 institutional investors representing more than USD$31
trillion in assets to assess how more than 2100 companies
worldwide are managing climate change risks and opportunities.
RBC out-performed most of our competitors in the banking sector,
ranking within the top three of North American respondents.
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