Document summary
The ET Carbon Rankings serve to encourage transparency by making emissions data more publically accessible, and lay the foundation for the ET Index Series, a market mechanism designed to tackle emissions within a rapid timeframe.The Rankings methodology orders companies into four categories according to their emissions reporting standards: public, complete & verified; public, complete & unverified; public, incomplete(verified or unverified); and, no public data. Companies in each category are then ranked according to their emissions intensity (emissions tCO2e/$M turnover).Topping the 2011 ET Europe 300 Carbon Ranking are UK based financial services giant Aviva, followed closely by Dutch firm Aegon, which offers Life Insurance, Pensions and Asset management services, with respective carbon intensities of 0.85 and 1.35 (tCO2e/$M turnover). The top three non-financial companies are Switzerland's leading Telecoms provider Swisscom (5th, 2.16), Nokia (11th, 5.61), BSkyB (13th, 6.69).