More than half the world’s most sustainable companies are manufacturers

The world’s top 100 corporations making the most meaningful advances towards sustainability have been ranked, the majority of which are based in Europe; but how is the list collated and what can be learned from the winners and losers? The Global 100 has been compiled every year since 2005 by Corporate Knights, a financial research and information company based in Toronto, Canada, that promotes a system in which global organisations are fully aware of the social, economic and ecological consequences of their activities – or, The Voice for Clean Capitalism. This year’s top 100 most sustainable companies list was announced at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and among the top 10 were three Danish firms two in bioscience, two American, and others from across Europe, and South America and Canada.