Canada's top international corporate citizens of 2026

Alongside the annual Best 50 ranking of Canada’s top sustainable companies, Corporate Knights also produces a ranking of the Top 10 International Corporate Citizens, which are selected from companies that earn more than $1 billion in revenue in Canada, are not listed or headquartered in Canada, and have the highest scores on the Corporate Knights sustainability rating methodology employed for the 2026 Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world.

The top three international performers this year are Schneider Electric SE (France), Tesla Inc. (USA) and Novo Nordisk A/S (Denmark), with overall sustainability scores of 72.69%, 69.79% and 68.46%, respectively. Schneider Electric was the top company on the 2025 Global 100 list. Apart from Tesla, two other U.S. firms made the cut: Cisco Systems, a multinational specializing in networking hardware, and HP Inc., a manufacturer of personal computers and printers. Technology and industrial firms dominate the list, with most linked to electrification and digital infrastructure. Unilever PLC, in eighth place, is the only traditional fast‑moving consumer goods company on this year’s list.

“Corporate investment is a major preoccupation in Canada today, but quality matters at least as much as quantity,” Corporate Knights’ CEO and co-founder Toby Heaps said in a statement. “Our Best 50 analysis shows that economy-wide, investment in sustainable activities is growing materially faster than its non-sustainable counterparts – and that’s one of the most important and encouraging economic signals we’ve seen.”