Corporate Knights ranks the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world. These represent the top 1 % in the world on corporate sustainability performance. The ranking is cross-sectoral, including the industrial, financial, IT, consumer, and healthcare sectors.
For the 2022 Global 100 index, Corporate Knights rigorously assessed more than 6,900 companies with more than USD 1 billion in revenues on parameters such as carbon and water productivity, emissions performance, rates of taxes paid, and board gender diversity.
The analysis compared the financial performance and corporate longevity of the Global 100 companies, which represent just over 1 % of assessed companies, against the MSCI All Country World Index.
According to Corporate Knights, the Global 100 index supports “the mounting case that sustainable corporate performance is consistent with equal or better returns for investors and greater corporate longevity”. They add that Global 100 companies consistently outperform MSCI ACWI companies on CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio, board gender diversity, paying their fair share of taxes, and on various other specific metrics that factor into the ranking.