The Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) includes the companies with the highest scores in the two categories of the carbon-intensive sectors and the non-carbon-intensive sectors, and provides a valuable perspective on the range and quality of responses to CDP’s questionnaire.
For full information about the classification and scoring of companies please consult the full reports.
Global 500 Carbon-intensive
| Sector | Company | CDLI score | Scope 1* | Scope 2* | Scope 3** | Intensity*** |
| Chemicals & Pharma | BASF | 82 | 23463 | 4050 | 28190 | 346 |
| Bayer | 78 | 3890 | 3710 | -69,800[1] | 171 | |
| Baxter International | 74 | 252 | 476 | 162 | 65 | |
| Johnson & Johnson | 74 | 343 | 580 | 244 | 15 | |
| Praxair | 74 | 3168 | 11000 | 260 | 1507 | |
| AstraZeneca | 73 | 442 | 276 | 576 | 24 | |
| Novartis | 69 | 586 | 883 | 146 | 39 | |
| Pfizer | 67 | 1058 | 1136 | - | 45 | |
| Dow Chemical Company | 66 | 29600 | 7700 | - | 691 | |
| Construction & Building Products | Lafarge | 66 | 96166 | 8087 | 2265 | 4318 |
| Manufacturing | Nissan Motor | 78 | 975 | 1840 | 165468 | 30 |
| Siemens | 77 | 1550 | 2410 | 499 | 35 | |
| Renault | 73 | 671 | 1021 | 90000 | 30 | |
| Oil & Gas | Suncor Energy | 75 | 10419 | 118 | - | 588 |
| Chevron Corporation | 74 | 63759 | -3,097[2] | - | 275 | |
| Repsol YPF | 72 | 27403 | 1830 | 173180 | 381 | |
| ENI | 68 | 67556 | 4070 | 303000 | 599 | |
| Royal Dutch Shell | 68 | 92000 | 13000 | 743180 | 295 | |
| Raw Materials, Mining, Paper & Packaging | BHP Billiton | 77 | 21394 | 30626 | 330165 | 1096 |
| Alcoa | 74 | 31100 | 27900 | - | 1919 | |
| Rio Tinto | 71 | 29600 | 20600 | 660300 | 1690 | |
| Xstrata | 70 | 14979 | 9135 | 174 | 845 | |
| Companhia Vale do Rio Doce - CVRD | 66 | 13805 | 1417 | - | 407 | |
| Newmont Mining Corporation | 66 | 2886 | 983 | - | 700 | |
| Transport & Logistics | Deutsche Post | 66 | 7050 | 950 | 23260 | 83 |
| Utilities | Iberdrola | 82 | 37769 | 3462 | 1363 | 1616 |
| Exelon Corporation | 78 | 11000 | 150 | - | 589 | |
| Scottish & Southern Energy | 78 | 22724 | 17 | 38 | 751 | |
| FPL Group | 77 | 50000 | 18346 | 18 | 4350 | |
| Centrica | 74 | 9562 | 123 | 28300 | 295 | |
| Fortum | 74 | 7730 | 408 | 1725 | 1173 | |
| Public Service Enterprise Group | 69 | 24682 | 1146 | - | 2009 | |
| E.ON | 68 | 121261 | 3286 | - | 1323 | |
| RWE | 67 | 152500 | 34600 | 300 | 3169 |
[1] See Bayer response for more detail on how its Scope 3 emissions have been reported
[2] See Chevron response for more detail on how its Scope 2 emissions have been reported
Global 500 Non-carbon-intensive
| Sector | Company | CDLI score | Scope 1* | Scope 2* | Scope 3** | Intensity*** |
| Financial Services | Barclays | 98 | 31 | 457 | 78 | 11 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co. | 98 | 12 | 365 | 98 | 6 | |
| Munich Re | 98 | 7 | 138 | 42 | 2 | |
| National Australia Bank | 98 | 19 | 218 | 14 | 12 | |
| Australia and New Zealand Banking Group | 97 | 14 | 198 | 18 | 20 | |
| Citigroup | 97 | 45 | 1366 | 79666 | 17 | |
| Lloyds TSB | 97 | 30 | 101 | 30 | 6 | |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 97 | 11 | 32 | 44 | 2 | |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 97 | 42 | 539 | 95 | 15 | |
| HBOS | 95 | 41 | 35 | 31 | 2 | |
| Westpac Banking | 95 | 7 | 109 | - | 5 | |
| Royal Bank of Scotland Group | 94 | 92 | 395 | 89 | 8 | |
| Standard Chartered | 94 | 11 | 209 | 58 | 20 | |
| Credit Suisse | 92 | 17 | 169 | 101 | 5 | |
| Allianz SE | 91 | 73 | 415 | 221 | 3 | |
| HSBC Holdings | 91 | 109 | 595 | 115 | 8 | |
| Bank of Montreal | 90 | 54 | 96 | 16 | 6 | |
| Hartford Financial Services | 90 | 36 | 92 | 16 | 5 | |
| Hospitality, Leisure & Business Services | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | 95 | 2466 | 1967 | 3009 | 439 |
| Carnival | 93 | 9858 | 82 | - | 763 | |
| International Business Machines | 92 | 599 | 2266 | - | 29 | |
| Johnson Controls | 91 | 524 | 1133 | 69 | 48 | |
| Retail & Consumer | Tesco | 96 | 1705 | 2691 | 70 | 42 |
| Coca Cola Company | 93 | 1933 | 3050 | 55 | 173 | |
| Matsushita Electric Industrial | 91 | 937 | 3020 | 20170 | 51 | |
| Sony | 91 | 526 | 1546 | 20480 | 23 | |
| Colgate-Palmolive | 90 | 244 | 431 | 23 | 49 | |
| Diageo | 90 | 604 | 133 | 1505 | 38 | |
| PepsiCo | 90 | 2332 | 1471 | - | 96 | |
| Technology, Media & Telecoms | EMC | 98 | 32 | 232 | 85 | 20 |
| Cisco Systems | 96 | 66 | 479 | 206 | 16 | |
| Nokia Group | 95 | 13 | 223 | 2297 | 3 | |
| BT Group | 94 | 238 | 557 | 22 | 21 | |
| Dell | 91 | 35 | 403 | 52 | 7 |
S&P500 Carbon-intensive
| Sector | Company | CDLI Score | Scope 1* | Scope 2* | Intensity** |
| Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals | PPG Industries | 80 | 4826 | 2101 | 618 |
| Praxair, Inc. | 74 | 3168 | 11000 | 1507 | |
| Baxter International Inc. | 74 | 252 | 476 | 65 | |
| Johnson & Johnson | 74 | 343 | 580 | 15 | |
| Pfizer Inc. | 67 | 1058 | 1136 | 45 | |
| Dow Chemical Company | 66 | 29600 | 7700 | 697 | |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | 64 | 435 | 537 | 50 | |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company | 63 | 9800 | 4200 | 476 | |
| Allergan, Inc. | 63 | 41 | 78 | 30 | |