Headquartered in Australia, Sims Limited leads the ranking of the most sustainable corporations as of 2024, having earned an overall ** score. The company operates in the metal and electronics recycling, municipal recycling, and renewable energy sectors. Also based in Australia, the second-leading company in terms of sustainability that year was ****************.

In 2024, the ************** was ranked as the most sustainable company in the United States, with a weighted score of **. The weighted score covered categories such as shareholders, employees, customers, planet, and community.

As of May 2024, survey respondents ranked companies headquartered in their regions that are leaders in integrating sustainability into their business strategy. In Latin America, 63 percent of respondents agreed that Natura & Co was a sustainability leader. Unilever and Patagonia held the top spots among European and North American experts, being named by 30 and 33 percent of respondents. Tata Group was named by 12 percent of experts in the Asia-Pacific as a leader in integrating sustainability into their business strategy.

As of 2024, the top three U.S. publicly listed companies ranked by overall climate management varied by industry. Colgate-Palmolive, operating within the consumer industry, received an overall climate management score of 69.7. Southern Co. ranked second with a climate management score of 69.9, operating in the utilities' industry. Moody's financial service provider ranked in the top spot, being the only publicly listed firm to receive a score of 70.

As many consumers have become determined about their beliefs surrounding sustainability, putting their money where their mouth is, many enterprises and brands around the world have reacted accordingly. When asked about any sustainable initiatives in 2021, nearly half of businesses stated they are investing in easy solutions for recycling their products over the next year. Over a third of surveyed companies also planned to distance themselves from partners that were not likely to meet shared sustainability targets.

The Danish company Coloplast was ranked as the most sustainable medical technology company in the world as of 2024. According to the ranking, Coloplast placed 78th across all companies worldwide. The only other medical technology company to be in the top 100 was Biomérieux.

According to a ranking by Stern and Statista, Miele is the most socially sustainable company in Germany in 2021 with a score of 100. The pharmaceutical company Merck and BMW followed in second and third place. The score for social sustainability includes indicators such as the share of women in management positions, employee churn, and human rights standards within the company. Two thousand companies headquartered in Germany were evaluated.

Globally, about ** percent of consumers said they were more likely to buy from a brand with a clear commitment to sustainability in 2021. Specifically, the EMEA region found it most important for brands to have actions that match their values that year.

Japanese Eisai, Danish Novo Nordisk, and French Sanofi are the world's most sustainable pharmaceutical companies as of 2025. According to Corporate Knight's list of most sustainable companies across all industries, only these three pharma players made it onto the annual ranking of the 100 most sustainable companies worldwide. With ** percent, Novo Nordisk showed an almost perfect water productivity score.

According to a survey conducted in 2022, around 59 percent of the C-level executives from major companies worldwide said that their firms are incorporating the use of more sustainable materials in their sustainability efforts against climate change. Another 59 percent of the executives pointed out that their companies are increasing the efficiency of energy use.

According to a survey conducted among companies in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and France in July 2022, ***** percent of respondents said they invested in sustainable marketing strategies for their brand image. Over ** percent mentioned they did so to increase sales. Conversely, respondents who said they invested in sustainable marketing because it was the right thing to do amounted to ***** percent.

In 2024, LPP and ING Bank Śląski led the ranking of top sustainable listed companies, having scored 211 and 210 ESG points, respectively.

In 2024, ***** was perceived as the most sustainable UK brand worldwide, with a sustainability perception value of **** billion British pounds. ****************************** also made it to the top 10. According to the source, the metric indicates how sustainable consumers perceive a brand to be and how much of its brand value is dependent on maintaining a reputation for acting sustainably.

According to a study carried out in 2021, ** percent of surveyed e-commerce companies saw the importance of investing in easily recyclable products for customers in the next year, making this the leading sustainability initiative in this time period. Increasing manufacturing efficiency was also popular, with almost ** percent of respondents saying such improvements would contribute significantly to making their company more sustainable in 2022. Consumers and companies agree on sustainable packaging The focus of e-commerce companies on investing in recyclable packaging as a means of becoming more sustainable mirrors the perspective of U.S. and U.K. consumers. As of January 2021, ** percent of consumers from these countries wanted the brands they buy from to create products with less packaging or with recycled packaging, a higher proportion than for any other sustainability initiative. This perspective of both e-commerce companies and consumers appears to be warranted, given that almost half (** percent) of greenhouse gas emissions from the e-commerce industry in 2020 were generated from the packaging of goods. Brand sustainability influences consumer behaviour There is a clear incentive for e-commerce companies to become more sustainable, as a significant fraction of consumers are influenced heavily by brand sustainability. Globally, ** percent of consumers in 2021 said they were more likely to buy from brands with a clear commitment to sustainability, with this number being slightly lower in North America (** percent) and slightly higher in the combined markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (** percent). Furthermore, there is evidence that this proportion of environmentally conscious consumers is on the rise; ** percent of consumers in 2022 described their shopping behaviour as primarily ‘purpose driven’, an increase from ** percent in 2020.

In 2023, the most sustainable medium-sized company in Germany was Elobau, which produces sensory technology. Rapunzel Naturkost and STEICO were ranked second and third respectively.

According to a survey conducted in February 2021 on attitude to company and brand sustainability behavior, nearly 89 percent of respondents expected companies and brands to do a lot more to reduce their carbon impact. About 82 percent of the respondents wanted companies to put people and planet before profit.

According to a ranking by Stern and Statista, Adidas is the most economically sustainable company in Germany in 2021 with a score of 100. MVV Energie and Jenoptik followed in second and third place. The economic score includes, among other things, key figures on compliance with the Corporate Governance Code, anti-corruption guidelines and the financial stability of the company. Two thousand companies headquartered in Germany were evaluated.

As of 2025, Merck & Co had the highest commitment towards socially responsible business practices among other leading companies in the United States, with a CSR score of *****. The American multinational information technology company is headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. General Mills, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ranked second that year, with a score of *****

In 2020, Tiffany & Co. was ranked as the most sustainable consumer discretionary goods company in the United States, with a weighted score of 73. The weighted score covered categories such as shareholders, employees, customers, planet, and community. Agilent Technologies was ranked as the most sustainable company, across all segments, that year.

In 2020, Clorox was ranked as the most sustainable consumer staples company in the United States, with a weighted score of 69. The weighted score covered categories such as shareholders, employees, customers, planet, and community. Agilent Technologies was ranked as the most sustainable company, across all segments, that year.