ACCOUNTING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY

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.

By Telis Demos
Chevron
Chevron has worked with the Cawelo Water District in California's semi-arid San Joaquin Valley to export produced water from the Kern River oil field into a reservoir that irrigates more than 46,000 acres of farmland. Steve Harris is from the lab that tests the reservoir's water.
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9. Chevron
Accountability score: 61.6
2006 rank: 30
Global 500 rank: 7
Chevron made a huge leap this year, jumping from No. 30 last year to the top 10. A new criteria of this year's ranking measures the number of controversial incidents a company is in involved in, and Chevron scored highly: It has not recorded any major accidents or spills in recent years.

The company is also aggressively moving into low-carbon-dioxide-emitting biofuels. It also scores highly on stakeholder engagement with its "Power of Human Energy" advertising campaign asking consumers to start dialogues with the company about the world's energy future.


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