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SIRAN-KLD Report Shows Chinese Companies Lag on Disclosure

Date: February 4, 2008

A SIRAN-KLD study of ESG disclosure standards in emerging markets, shows that nine out of ten emerging market companies now offer some ESG disclosure.  South African companies do best,whilst Chinese companies lag, with only 25% of companies meeting all criteria. Approximately 27% of all firms used the GRI reporting standards. The Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN), is a working group of the Social Investment Forum (SIF), and the research was conducted by KLD Research & Analytics, Inc.

See, for link to the full report along with an on-line company tracking database.
http://www.siran.org/pdfs/012408_SIRAN_KLD_EM_news_release_final.pdf