Umicore is the most sustainable company on earth this year, according to a new ranking. But what does sustainability mean, exactly? According to Doug Morrow, vice president of research at Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media company, it’s recognizing that a corporation’s long-term interests are intellectually and financially consistent with resource efficiency, proactive health and safety practices, and responsible leadership.
根据一项新的排名，优美科公司（Umicore）是2013年全球最具可持续性的公司。不过，“可持续性”到底是什么意思呢？
Sustainability is when what is good for a company is also good for the planet, and vice-versa, adds Toby Heaps, editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights. “It means creating more wealth than we destroy. It means that a company is on balance increasing our overall stock of wealth, grounded in human, produced, financial, natural, and social capital.”
多伦多媒体公司Corporate Knights研究部的副总裁道格·莫罗（Doug Morrow）表示，可持续性是对公司的一种确认，认可该公司的长远利益在思想上和财务上与其资源利用效率、主动采取的健康与安全措施以及负责任的领导方式保持一致。
Corporate Knights just announced its ninth-annual list of the world’s most sustainable companies, also known as the Global 100. “It’s important to celebrate the most sustainable companies for two key reasons, ” Heaps says. “One, it drives corporate disclosure of core social and environmental metrics, which matters because you can’t manage what you don’t measure. And from an accountability perspective, sunlight is the best disinfectant, ” he says. “Two, because the Global 100′s clearly defined methodology is well respected and watched closely during the World Economic Forum in Davos, it pushes companies to compete to see who can best harness their business model to make the world a better place.”
Corporate Knights公司旗下杂志《公司骑士》的主编托比·希普斯（Toby Heaps）补充道，可持续性就是当有益于公司的与有益于我们这个星球的达到一致时的状态，反之亦然，“它意味着创造出的财富多于我们所破坏的财富。它意味着公司在增长整体财富时达到平衡，植根于人力、产出、金融、自然与社会资本。”
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Corporate Knights刚刚公布了第九届全球最具可持续性公司的榜单，它也被称为全球100强（Global 100）。
To determine the 2013 ranking, Corporate Knights trimmed down an initial list of 4, 000 publicly traded companies to 350, based on financial performance, sustainability disclosure practices, and other criteria.
“表彰最具可持续性的公司很重要，这里面有两个主要原因。”希普斯如是说，“其一，它促使公司披露核心的社会与环境指标，这一点很重要，因为若不加以衡量就无法实行管理。从责任的角度来看，阳光是最好的消毒剂。”他说，“其二，由于全球100强明确定义的排名方法得到人们的尊重，并在达沃斯世界经济论坛（World Economic Forum in Davos）举行期间备受瞩目，它推动公司相互竞争，以决出哪家公司能够最好地驾驭其商业模式，以让世界变得更加美好。”
They evaluated the remaining 350 companies using key environmental, social, and governance performance indicators, including waste productivity, CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio, leadership diversity, and employee turnover. The companies were then scored, relative to their same-sector peers. (A different set of performance indicators was used for companies in each industry, depending on recent reporting trends in each industry group.)
为了确定2013年的排名，Corporate Knights基于财务表现、可持续性指标的披露以及其他标准，将包含4,000家上市公司的初始名单缩减到了350家。
Corporate Knights collected data for the project primarily from Bloomberg and through direct engagement with the 350 companies.
他们利用关键的环境、社会和治理绩效指标——其中包括废物排放效益、首席执行官和普通员工的薪酬比率、领导层多元化程度以及员工流动率——对剩下的350家公司进行了评估，然后给这些公司打分，公司的得分是相对同行业竞争对手而言（对于各个行业分别使用基于该行业最新报告趋势的绩效指标）。
“No corporate sustainability assessment is perfect, ” Morrow says. “Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, but in terms of what matters most–transparency, rules-based, and sophistication–we feel the Global 100 is the most complete sustainability ranking in the world.”
Corporate Knights为排名搜集的数据主要来自彭博（Bloomberg）以及与这350家公司的直接互动。
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