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Cleantech 10 ™ list pinpoints the top publicly traded Cleantech companies in Canada - next 10 Cleantech list highlights emerging Cleantech leaders of tomorrow

TORONTO - Today, the CEOs of the companies on Corporate Knights' third-annual Cleantech 10™ list and Next 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders opened the Toronto Stock Exchange. The TSX now has, by its count, the largest number of listed cleantech companies in the world at 122. Corporate Knights has been following cleantech companies since 2007 and highlighting the best investment prospects. The Cleantech 10™ and Next 10 represent Canada's best publicly and privately held companies in the Cleantech realm, and span a range of sectors from global positioning systems to smart grids to solar technology.

Corporate Knights has released the 8th Annual Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada, the definitive annual list of Canada's top corporate citizens.

Toronto, Ontario - Citizenship indicators include pension fund quality, board and C-suite diversity, CEO-pay fairness, and tax dollar generation, as well as sector specific indicators such as renewable energy investments (for financial companies) and respect for human rights (for mining companies). This year, companies' Aboriginal relations were weighed as a key performance indicator (KPI) for the extractive sectors (forestry, mining, oil and gas, utilities), and Aboriginal banking as a KPI for the financials sector. Eventually, Corporate Knights hopes to include Aboriginal relations as a KPI for all sectors.