Accountability score*: 69
Global 500 rank: 3
Sector: Petroleum refining
Region: Europe

Shell, like BP, produces vast reports on the effects of its business, extending from the environmental to the social and political results of resource extraction. In terms of social goals, its CSR process has led to a program to help relocate communities in China whose access to water have been cut off by a petrochemicals plant. Shell has also sunk significant investment into liquefied gas as an alternative fuel to gasoline and has been an active trader on Europe's carbon emissions markets.