The Dutch have set up an 'MDG Scan' to keep the score on what multinational companies do towards realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Dutch Commission on Sustainable Research (NCDO) has now financed the MDG Scan as a tool to raise awareness of the MDGs in the private sector. The scan allows for detailed comparisons between companies within the same sector and evaluation of the progress of a company over time... Six multinational companies have so far passed the MDG Scan: ABN Amro (banking), Heineken (beer brewer), Philips (electronics), Akzo Nobel (chemicals), BHP Billiton (mining) and TNT (logistics) [part of TPG]... The MDG scan takes into account positive as well as negative contributions to the MDGs. But judged by the number of indicators, the MDG Scan currently stresses indicators that measure positive contributions.