10 Most 'Accountable' Big Companies

Fortune partnered with AccountAbility and CSRnetwork to rank the world's 100 largest corporations by the quality of their commitment to social and environmental goals.

Royal Dutch Shell
Solar power used in a rural domestic setting, Meegaswewa Village, Sri Lanka.
6. Royal Dutch Shell
Accountability score: 66.0
2006 rank: 3
Global 500 rank: 3
Part of Shell's core business strategy is to report all operating results as a "triple bottom line": in financial, social, and environmental terms. In addition to engaging stakeholders by asking its customers to become more energy efficient, Shell has also reduced the carbon footprint of its operations to 1999 levels. Several projects are in development that capture the carbon from wells and refiners. A test plant in Australia captures the natural gas produced from a coal power plant and uses that gas to produce more electricity.

BP

Barclays

ENI

HSBC

Vodafone

Shell

Peugeot

HBOS

Chevron

DaimlerChrysler
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