Awards and achievements

Gold Fields was placed first among the top 300 companies operating in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries in the Environmental Tracking (ET) Carbon Rankings, which ranks companies in terms of their disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions. Gold Fields was ranked third in the Global top 800 companies table. The ET Carbon Rankings are compiled by the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), an independent not-for-profit research body focusing on economic and financial innovation to reduce global corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

Gold Fields was also the joint winner (with Nedbank) in Ernst & Young’s Excellence in Corporate Reporting awards for 2011. The results were based on the latest annual reports of the top 100 JSE Limited listed companies.

Gold Fields was the top resources company and placed fourth overall in the Financial Mail Nkonki Group inaugural Integrated Annual Report awards among the JSE Limited Top 40 companies.

Based on the annual report for the six month period ended 31 December 2010, Gold Fields improved its rating on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index by 6 percentage points to 81 per cent.