CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT
Corporate
Sustainability is a business approach that creates long-term
shareholder value by embracing opportunities and managing risks
deriving from economic, environmental and social developments.
The identification of sustainability leaders for the Dow Jones
Sustainability Indexes is based on the Corporate Sustainability
Assessment of SAM Research.
A defined set of criteria
and weightings is used to assess the opportunities and risks
deriving from economic, environmental and social developments for
the eligible companies.
A major source of information is the SAM questionnaire
which is completed by companies participating in the annual review.
Further sources include company and third-party documents as well
as personal contacts between the analysts and companies.
The external assurance
report by Deloitte ensures that the corporate
sustainability assessments are completed in accordance with the
defined rules.
Based on SAM Research's corporate sustainability assessment companies
are ranked within their industry group and selected for the Dow
Jones Sustainability Indexes, if they are among the sustainability
leaders in their field. For a detailed description of this selection
process you can download the guidebook
for the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes and the guidebook
for the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Indexes.
You can also download a presentation
about the most important characteristics of the methodology and
about key results of the DJSI Review 2009.
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