Bank
of America is the top-ranked global financial services company, and is
ranked fourth in all areas in the Carbon Disclosure Project recently
published (CDP)-Global-500. The
ranking is based on the combined effect of two Carbon Disclosure
Leadership Index (CDLI) and the Carbon Leadership Index is based
Performance (FPIC) notes.
Overall
rating of the report, as the 500 largest companies in the world to
disclose their emissions of greenhouse gases that build climate change
strategies, targets for the reduction and improvements in performance. In
the report, the Bank of America, 97 points out of 100 possible points
in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index for the disclosure process and
attained the rank as efficiently as possible in the FPIC.
"We
are delighted with this recognition of the CDP, which shows how far we
as a society to come. Bank of America was and is a lot of discipline in
our control, efficiency and performance to introduce disclosure," says
Global Technology and Operations Executive and the Bank of America on the Environment Chairman Catherine P. Bessant. "Find
as we move forward, our challenge to continue to develop innovative
ways to deliver on the ambitious goals we have established and to help
our customers, appear many of whom in these reports, do the same."
Apart
from the world rankings, the CDP separate Bank of America first ranked
among financial services companies and second among all large U.S.
companies in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index, and FPIC in its S
& P 500 report released yesterday in New York.
CDP
is supported by 551 investors with assets of 71 billion dollars, and it
plays an important role in encouraging companies to measure and manage
their carbon emissions directly and indirectly, and broader ecological
footprint and the development of the commitment of supply chain to support development.
Bank
of America was one of the leading global financial institutions of
greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions reduction targets in 2004 to make. In
May 2011, the company announced a new goal that is achievable on the
road to a comprehensive reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions by
over 30 percent in 2015. This
figure is achieved from the reduction 18 percent between 2004 and 2009,
and the new goal of reducing emissions by 15 percent in 2015, based on a
2010 baseline. Bank
of America CSR Report 2010 "contains detailed information about the
company business' social responsibility activities, including data on
their environmental activities.
