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Environmental watchdog Greenpeace will release today its new guide on how electronics companies fare when it comes to environmental policies, particularly on tackling the issue of climate change.

Greenpeace will release in a press conference in Makati City Version 8 of its "Guide to Greener Electronics."

The Guide, first launched in August 2006, ranks the top market leaders of the mobile phone, computer, television and games console markets according to their policies and practices on toxic chemicals and recycling.

The guide has been a key driving force in getting many of the companies to make significant improvements to their environmental policies.

Greenpeace said the new edition adds another criteria, which is the performance of electronics companies on tackling climate change.

The companies are given scores of zero to 10 based on their "green" policies.

The sixth issue of the Guide, which was released in November last year, showed Sony Ericsson taking over Nokia at the top spot. Nokia fell to ninth spot because of penalty points on "take back" or recycling practices in Thailand, Russia and Argentina.

Based on Greenpeace's most recent Guide last year, the electronics firms were ranked as follows: Sony Ericsson, 7.7; Samsung, 7.7; Sony 7.3; Dell, 7.3; Lenovo, 7.3; Toshiba, 7; LGE, 7; Fujitsu-Siemens, 7; Nokia, 6.7; HP, 6.7; Apple, 6; Acer, 5.7; Panasonic, 5; Motorola, 5; Sharp, 4.7; Microsoft, 2.7; Philips, 2; Nintendo, zero.

Nintendo scored zero last year because it was new to the Guide, but it was the first global brand to score zero across all criteria.

Philips was also new but had no timeline for toxic chemicals elimination and scored zero on e-waste policy and practice.

Microsoft, another newbie, had a long timeline for toxic chemicals elimination (2011) and poor takeback policy and practice.