Carillion has reached its highest ever score in the CDP FTSE 350 Climate Change Report 2013.

Achieving a highly laudable 86 B, Carillion has demonstrated a steady improvement, adding nine points onto its 2012 performance.

The score has shot up by more than 30 points since the company first participated in the report in 2010.

Previously known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, the annual CDP reports are a well-respected global disclosure system for companies to report their environmental impacts - enabling them to benchmark their performance against peers and competitors across a broad spectrum of industries.

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Carillion has performed very well in comparison to those in its sector and its score is well ahead of the FTSE 250 average of 60 C, as well as beating the FTSE 100 average of 81 B.

Carillion Chief Sustainability Officer David Picton commented: "We are extremely encouraged by our further improved score in this year's report, which underlines the extent to which effective carbon management has been embraced across all levels of our complex and dynamic business.

"We have set ourselves challenging carbon reduction aims and have always endeavoured to be transparent about our performance against them.

"Given that this issue affects us all, the CDP report offers a valuable opportunity to demonstrate that openness, to lead others and to benchmark our performance against our peers to remain committed to relentless improvement actions."

(CD/IT)