The 100 most sustainable corporations of 2022

Corporate Knights’ 2022 ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations is based on a rigorous assessment of nearly 7,000 public companies with revenue over US$1 billion.

2022 G100 Rank	2021 G100 Rank	Company	Headquarters City	Climate commitments	Overall Score
1	21	Vestas Wind Systems A/S	Aarhus	1.5°C, SBTi	A+
2	24	Chr Hansen Holding A/S	Horsholm	1.5°C, SBTi	A
3	43	Autodesk Inc	San Rafael	SBTi	A
4	1	Schneider Electric SE	Rueil-Malmaison	1.5°C, SBTi	A
5	40	City Developments Ltd	Singapore	1.5°C, SBTi	A
6	9	American Water Works Company Inc	Camden (U.S.)		A
7	2	Orsted A/S	Fredericia	1.5°C, SBTi	A-
8	12	Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC	Brentford (U.K.)	SBTi	A-
9	55	Dassault Systemes SE	Vélizy-Villacoublay	1.5°C, SBTi	A-
10	18	Brambles Ltd	Sydney	1.5°C, SBTi	A-
11	57	Sims Ltd	Mascot		A-
12	38	Johnson Controls International PLC	Cork	1.5°C, SBTi	B+
12*	7	Kering SA	Paris	SBTi, FCCA	B+
13	93	Koninklijke KPN NV	Rotterdam	1.5°C, SBTi	B+
14	6	McCormick & Company Inc	Hunt Valley	SBTi	B+
15		Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc	Portland		B+
16	45	Transcontinental Inc	Montreal		B+
17	5	Stantec Inc	Edmonton	1.5°C, SBTi	B+
18	17	Cascades Inc	Kingsey Falls	SBTi	B+
19		Evoqua Water Technologies Corp	Pittsburgh	SBTi	B+
20		Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd	Wan Chai		B+
21	3	Banco do Brasil SA	Brasília	1.5°C, SBTi	B+
22	51	Sekisui Chemical Co Ltd	Osaka	1.5°C, SBTi	B+
23		Engie Brasil Energia SA	Florianópolis		B+
24	4	Neste Oyj	Espoo		B+
25	19	Iberdrola SA	Bilbao	1.5°C, SBTi	B+
26	70	Xerox Holdings Corp	Norwalk	SBTi	B
27		Salesforce.Com Inc	San Francisco	1.5°C, SBTi	B
28	13	Cisco Systems Inc	San Jose	1.5°C, SBTi	B
29	39	Alstom SA	St Ouen	SBTi	B
31†		Legrand SA	Limoges	1.5°C, SBTi	B
32	16	Eisai Co Ltd	Tokyo	1.5°C, SBTi	B
33		Ecolab Inc	Saint Paul	1.5°C, SBTi	B
34		Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd	Calgary	SBTi	B
35	36	Novozymes A/S	Bagsvaerd	1.5°C, SBTi	B
36	90	Alphabet Inc	Mountain View		B-
37	27	Verbund AG	Vienna		B-
38	95	Workday Inc	Pleasanton	1.5°C, SBTi	B-
39		SunPower Corp	San Jose		B-
40	8	Metso Outotec Corp	Helsinki	SBTi	B-
41	29	IGM Financial Inc	Winnipeg	NZAM	B-
42		Xinyi Solar Holdings Ltd	Wuhu		B-
43		Sprouts Farmers Market Inc	Phoenix		B-
44	20	TSMC	Hsinchu City		B-
45	62	Vitasoy International Holdings Ltd	Hong Kong SAR		B-
46	60	Samsung SDI Co Ltd	Yongin-Si		B-
47		LONGi Green Energy Technology Co Ltd	Xi'an	1.5°C, SBTi	B-
48		Apple Inc	Cupertino	1.5°C, SBTi	B-
49	54	Telus Corp	Vancouver	1.5°C, SBTi	B-
50	50	HP Inc	Palo Alto	1.5°C, SBTi	B-
51		Atea ASA	Oslo	SBTi	B-
52	97	Tesla Inc	Austin	1.5°C, SBTi	B-
53	41	Konica Minolta Inc	Tokyo	SBTi	B-
54	30	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co	Houston	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
55	84	SAP SE	Walldorf	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
55*	14	Storebrand ASA	Lysaker	1.5°C, SBTi, NZAM, NZAO	C+
55*	69	Sun Life Financial Inc	Toronto	NZAM	C+
56		Koninklijke Philips NV	Amsterdam	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
57	34	Arcelik AS	Istanbul	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
58		Citrix Systems Inc	Fort Lauderdale	SBTi	C+
59		UniCredit SpA	Milan	NZBA	C+
60	67	Commerzbank AG	Frankfurt am Main	SBTi, NZAM, NZBA	C+
61	37	ING Groep NV	Amsterdam	NZAM	C+
62		Quadient SA	Bagneux		C+
63	88	Henkel AG & Co KgaA	Düsseldorf	1.5°C, SBTi, NZAM	C+
64	59	Intel Corp	Santa Clara		C+
66†	77	Prologis Inc	San Francisco	SBTi	C+
67	65	Sanofi SA	Paris	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
68	74	Analog Devices Inc	Wilmington	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
69	87	Kesko Oyj	Helsinki	1.5°C, SBTi	C+
70	86	Nordea Bank Abp	Helsinki	NZAM, NZAO, NZBA	C+
71	44	National Australia Bank Ltd	Melbourne		C+
72	80	StarHub Ltd	Singapore		C+
73	92	Industria de Diseno Textil SA	Corunna	SBTi, FCCA	C+
74	91	Teck Resources Ltd	Vancouver		C
75	58	CapitaLand Investment Ltd	Singapore	SBTi	C
76	46	BNP Paribas SA	Paris	SBTi, NZAM, NZAO, NZBA	C
77		Puma SE	Herzogenaurach	SBTi, FCCA	C
78	79	Unilever PLC	London (U.K.)	1.5°C, SBTi	C
79		Gildan Activewear Inc	Montreal		C
80	47	Bank of Montreal	Montreal	NZAM, NZAO	C
81	68	Cogeco Communications Inc	Montreal	1.5°C, SBTi	C
82	76	Adidas AG	Herzogenaurach	SBTi, FCCA	C
83		Coloplast A/S	Humlebæk	1.5°C, SBTi	C
84	35	BT Group PLC	London (U.K.)	1.5°C, SBTi	C-
86†	73	Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd	Toronto		C-
87	78	Lenovo Group Ltd	Quarry Bay	SBTi	C-
88	42	Natura & Co Holding SA	São Paulo	1.5°C, SBTi	C-
89		Campbell Soup Co	Camden (U.S.)	SBTi	C-
90	56	Intesa Sanpaolo SpA	Turin	NZAM, NZAO, NZBA	C-
91	82	AstraZeneca PLC	Cambridge (U.K.)	1.5°C, SBTi	C-
92		KBC Groep NV	Brussels		C-
93	49	Allianz SE	Munich	SBTi, NZAM, NZAO	C-
94		Aster DM Healthcare Ltd	Dubai		D+
95	89	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson	Stockholm	1.5°C, SBTi	D+
96	75	Pearson PLC	London (U.K.)	1.5°C, SBTi	D+
97		Biogen Inc	Cambridge (U.S.)	1.5°C, SBTi	D+
98	99	Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd	Toronto		D
99		LG Electronics Inc	Seoul	1.5°C, SBTi	D
100	94	Byd Co Ltd	Shenzhen		D-

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† Rank 30 and 85 updated due to data correction

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Climate commitment
Business Ambition for 1.5C	1.5°C
Science Based Targets initiative	SBTi
Fashion Charter for Climate Action	FCCA
Net-Zero Asset Managers Initiative	NZAM
Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance	NZAO
Net-Zero Banking Alliance	NZBA

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Methodology

All companies are scored on applicable metrics relative to their peers, with 50% of the weight assigned to Clean Revenue and Clean Investment. Nine of the indicators have fixed weights; the rest are assigned weights according to each industry’s relative impact in relation to the overall economy. After quantitatively analyzing data for 23 key performance indicators, using the Corporate Knights methodology, this year’s overall scores were converted to letter grades.

Country: Country in which company is headquartered
Peer Group: Peer group against which company was rated (based on the Corporate Knights Peer Groups)
Peer Group Rank: Company’s ranking in peer group
Carbon Productivity Score: Based on company’s revenue to Scope 1+2 CO2e ratio
% Taxes Paid: Based on company’s cash taxes paid to profit ratio over past five years
CEO–Average Worker Pay Ratio: Ratio of CEO compensation to average worker’s compensation
% Non-Male Board Directors: % of board of directors who are not male
% Clean Revenue: % of revenue earned from products and services that are categorized as “clean” under the Corporate Knights Clean Taxonomy
% Clean Investment: % of capital expenditures, R&D and acquisitions that are categorized as “clean” under the Corporate Knights Clean Taxonomy
Overall Score: The weighted average percentile rank scores across up to 23 metrics