Mission Statement

We believe that a company’s ability to manage its extra-financial aspects, such as those related to environmental, labour, and human rights, is a powerful proxy and a leading indicator for its overall management quality. Management quality, in turn, is the single greatest determinant of companies’ financial performance. The aim of this initiative is thus to promote better managed and better performing corporations regarding sustainability issues.

In a competitive market, there’s little doubt that businesses can derive a range of benefits from sound management of their social, environmental and governance (ESG) areas, such as reputational advantages, license to operate, and employee recruitment and retention benefits, amongst others. In an age of information overload, it is important that stakeholders, including shareholders, policy-makers, employees and consumers, be provided with a way to pick out the true leaders from the pack.

There is also a growing investment case for strong management of extra-financial risks and opportunities. As we move deeper and deeper into the era of knowledge-value based on sustainability issues, conventional methods of company analysis will capture and reflect less and less of a company’s true value and competitive potential. These sustainability value drivers are difficult to measure, but they are absolutely central to companies’ competitiveness and profitability going forward.

If all corporations are not the same, which ones are better? That’s the purpose of the Global 100: to reinforce, raise awareness and highlight, annually, the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world, laying out in one clear page the global firms most willing and able to deal with the key social and environmental factors they face in their everyday operations.