Sustainability Yearbook 2010 acknowledges ACCIONA as a world leader in sustainability

ACCIONA ranked ‘Gold Class Sector Leader’ by PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM).

ACCIONA has been identified as a Gold Class Sector Leader and appears in The Sustainability Yearbook 2010, a world benchmark in the field of sustainability, published by PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM). The Yearbook identifies the companies with the greatest capacity for managing sustainability and which represent a good investment opportunity.

The latest edition of the Yearbook assesses the sustainability efforts of 1,200 companies worldwide, and establishes leaders for each sector Bronze, Silver and Gold, according to the score obtained.
This is ACCIONA’s third consecutive year as Sector Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index (DJSI STOXX), two international benchmark indices for sustainability and socially responsible investment. ACCIONA came out top in the environment and social dimensions, improving on last year’s score and obtaining a better score overall, and is now better-placed than in the two previous years, when ACCIONA also led  its sector. This progress evidences ACCIONA’s commitment to improving international best practices and pioneering sustainability measures, which has taken the Company further up the classification.

ACCIONA is also a component of other sustainability in investment indices, such as the Standard and Poors’ S&P Global Clean Energy Index, and the KLD Global Climate 100 Index, which promotes investment in 100 companies that "have displayed leadership in the fight against climate change using renewable energy, clean technology, efficiency and future fuels".