The list is published by Toronto-based media and research company, Corporate Knights (and announced each year during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland).
The adoption of large green recovery programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is suspected to have widened this performance gap.
The index was created with the intention of devising a methodology to quantitatively compare and rank the world's largest publicly traded companies.
[1] The Global 100 starting universe automatically considers all publicly listed companies with US$1B+ revenue during the rating year.
2015: Biogen[10] 2014: Westpac[11] 2013: Umicore[12] 2012: Novo Nordisk[13] 2011: Statoil ASA 2010: General Electric Company[14]