S.Africa’s Investec sole African firm on 2025 Global 100 list of World’s most sustainable companies

S.Africa’s Investec sole African firm on 2025 Global 100 list of World’s most sustainable companies
26 / 01 / 2025
By Marwa Nassar - -

South Africa’s Investec is the sole African firm on the 2025 Corporate Knights’ Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable companies.

Corporate Knights’ Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable firms, now in its 21st year, shows that the top firms continue to increase their investment in the green transition. Even with higher interest rates in recent years, leading corporations have expanded their sustainable investments, which have resulted in a growing share of income being derived from sustainable revenue sources.

“We’re finding that growth in sustainable revenues is outpacing all other revenues,” said Toby Heaps, co-founder and CEO of Corporate Knights. “Over the last five years for major global public companies, sustainable revenues are growing twice as fast as other revenues, and they now represent over $5 trillion of annual revenues for the 3,000 biggest companies that we track.”

“With sustainable investment, it’s the same story,” Heaps said. “Sustainable capital expenditure is growing twice as fast as all other capex.” That green investment is key to a more sustainable future, telling us where companies are going as opposed to where they currently derive their revenues.

The Global 100 methodology uses a mix of fixed and variable-weight ESG and sustainable-economy key performance indicators (KPIs) to score companies against their peers.

Corporate Knights measures the share of revenues and investments that are included in the Corporate Knights Sustainable Economy Taxonomy and percent rank those ratios against the company’s peer group (CKPG). It then gives equal weight to the ratios and the percent ranks in awarding up to 25 points for sustainable revenue and up to 25 points for sustainable investment, for a total of 50 possible points.

The other 50 points in the Global 100 are allocated to 22 ESG KPIs, covering environmental, social, governance and supplier sustainability themes.

اترك تعليقا

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Articles