To produce the 2017 Green Rankings, Newsweek partnered with Corporate Knights Capital and leading sustainability minds from nongovernmental organizations and the academic and accounting communities to assess each company’s environmental footprint, management of that footprint, and transparency. The Green Rankings focus on the largest publicly traded companies globally and in the U.S., consisting of the largest 500 companies by market capitalization as of December 31, 2016. Companies are ranked by their overall Green Score. This score is derived from six principles including: transparency, objectivity, public availability of data, comparability, engagement with eligible companies, and stakeholder inclusion.
The statistic gives an index of the greenest U.S. companies in 2017. With a green score of 81.6 percent, Ecolab was ranked second. The Green Rankings focus on the largest publicly traded companies globally and in the U.S., consisting of the largest 500 companies by market capitalization (as of December 31, 2016).
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