Detailed scoring of IT companies' climate advocacy
Greenpeace's Cool IT leaderboard assesses and scores IT companies on their advocacy on climate change issues.  To be scored, companies must show examples of speech, lobby, or other advocacy that directly results in absolute greenhouse gas emission reductions.  All advocacy is not created equally, and the content, audience and company messenger all influence the advocacy score.  Greenpeace strives to reward excellence so a maximum of 10 points are awarded for a company's highest scoring speech -- rather than averaging a number of scored speeches, and similarly up to 15 points for the highest scoring other form of advocacy.  However, repeating climate change advocacy is also quite important, and we award a repetition bonus of up to 10 points to companies based on the quantity of their positive climate advocacy. Future leaderboard updates will also include and assess detrimental lobby and advocacy from IT companies on climate change issues.
For more information on our scoring criteria, please visit:  http://www.greenpeace.org/coolit/criteriapdf
Assessed climate advocacy from IT companies
Content Points Available Total Points Awarded Per Company
Cisco Dell  Fujitsu Google HP IBM Intel Microsoft Nokia Panasonic Sharp Sony  Sun Toshiba
Sector Wide Advocacy
DESC Letter to Senate 15 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Letter to US Senate  15 4 4 4
Copenhagen Communique  15 4 4 4 4
WEF Open Letter to G20 15 3 3 3 3
Poznan Communique 15 3 3 3
Japan Industry Statement 15 2
We Can Lead Open Letter 15 3
BICEP principles and advocacy 15 8
Climate Savers Ad 15 3 3 3
Company Specific Advocacy
Opinion Editorial 10 4
CEO Speech 10 1 2 2 7 2 2 6
C-Level/Senior Executive Speech 10 1 2 2
Legislative Testimony 15 10 4
Using Position Papers in Advocacy 15 3 4 2
Lobbying on Regulation 15 4
Other Advocacy 15 3 1
Corporate Policy on Climate Change 15 1 3 2 2 2
Repetition Bonus 10 3 2 1 7 6 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
Highest Speech  10 1 2 2 7 2 2 0 2 0 0 6 0 1 0
Highest Other Advocacy 15 4 4 4 10 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 4 8 0
Total Score 35 8 8 7 24 12 8 6 7 4 2 8 4 12 0