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UK-based non-governmental organisation the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO) has launched five carbon league tables in an attempt to persuade more of the world's largest 1,300 companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and provide more comprehensive information about their emissions.

The EIO's ET Global Carbon Rankings, which were released today, name and shame the biggest polluters and the worst companies in terms of transparent carbon disclosures.

German technology firm BASF tops the table and US-based FirstEnergy comes last in the global research, offering no public data. More than half of companies in the ET Global 800 report incomplete data or no data at all.

After BASF the next best companies were named as mining group Anglo American and French technology firm Alcatel-Lucent. There was some good news for UK companies, with Anglo American, London-listed Xstrata, British Land, Reckitt Benckiser, Centrica and Next all making the list of top ten European companies.

The aim is to increase levels of transparency, while encouraging reductions in carbon emissions on a global scale.

The 2011 ranking is based on a greenhouse gas emissions metric relative to a company's size, regardless of what industry they are in.

In the Global 800, BASF and Anglo American top the chart, while precious metal producers Gold Fields came in third.

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