Since 2010 Generali has been signatory the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an initiative by which to commit to meeting the challenges linked to
climate change and to limit the scope of the latter through the adoption of environmentally-friendly
behaviour. The CDP is an independent non-profit organisation that represent 551
institutional investors for a total of 71,000 billion dollars (about 53.555 billion euros) of assets managed.
It provides investors with information on the strategies adopted and the climate
change performance of the companies in which they invest, or intend to invest,
collected through an extremely articulated questionnaire sent once a year to the
major listed companies of all sectors of business.
In the year 2011, in the CDP 2010 Global 500 Report classification, which assesses
the disclosure and performance communicated to the Carbon Disclosure Project,
the Generali Group obtained a score of 68/100, which comes in immediately below the highest band (>70 points) and band “C” (six Band from A the top to E the last), which reflects the fact that the Group
has only recently adopted policies and objectives by which to reduce carbon intensity.
Newsweek's Green Rankings 2011
In the “2011 Green Rankings”, published in October by the Newsweek magazine, Generali was ranked 30th among the largest 500 companies worldwide (36th in 2010), becoming the 3rd best company among the main competitors in the insurance and reinsurance sector.
For producing the “2011 Green Rankings", the Newsweek collaborated with some
leading providers in the environmental research - Trucost and Sustainalytics – in order to assess the largest global companies. They are ranked according
to their overall Green Score arising from the scores and weights of three components:
environmental impact score (45%)
environmental management score (45%)
environmental disclosure score (10%)
Generali Group has received an overall score of 74.1/100 based on the following: 84.2/100 environmental impact score, 70.8/100 environmental
management score, and 42.8/100 environmental disclosure score.
Lundquist's CSR Online Awards
Generali scored 50 points (+4.5 points compared to 2010), in line with the average performance
of leading European companies. It was ranked 51st in the CSR Online Awards 2011 – Europe 100, that assessed the corporate websites of Europe’s 100 largest companies included in the FTSE Eurotop 100 index.'
The 4th CSR Online Awards, conducted by communications consultancy Lundquist, has examined how Europe’s largest listed companies communicate corporate responsibility
online.
Generali was ranked 15th (18th in 2010) in the CSR Online Awards Italy 2011, that assessed the corporate websites of Italy’s 50 largest listed companies.
