Green companies outperforming non-green peers

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Two recent ranking-lists highlight how global companies committed to sustainability and environmental action economically outperform their non-green peers. The two parallel reports were published this week, ranking corporate sustainability among global companies. One report by the non-profit environmental disclosure platform CDP ranks companies pioneering action on climate change, water and deforestation, while the report by Corporate Knights, a Canadian media and research company, ranks global companies according to their sustainability profile.

Both lists encompass a wide range of sustainability criteria (those of CDP can be found