19 Accenture

Founded in 1989

CEO: Julie Sweet https://www.accenture. com https://www.linkedin.com/ company/ accenture/

With Julie Sweet – one of the world’s most powerful businesswomen – at the helm, Accenture is a firm driving change and creating meaningful value.

Accenture operates in over 120 countries and serves more than 9,000 clients. Its approach to sustainability is comprehensive, integrating sustainability into every facet of its work for the benefit of all stakeholders. Accenture offers solutions that mitigate carbon emissions across various domains, such as buildings, transport, and even entire cities, while simultaneously promoting social and economic advantages. Accenture works with organisations to incorporate sustainability throughout the value chain, thus enabling trusted, circular, and net-zero value chains.

IT Services and IT Consulting Ireland

Tesla

Founded in 2003

CEO: Elon Musk https://www.tesla.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/ company/ tesla-motors/

On a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, Tesla is building a world powered by solar energy, running on batteries and transported by electric vehicles. With global temperatures rising, the faster society frees itself from fossil fuel reliance and achieves a zero-emission future, the better. In pursuit of this mission, Tesla produces and instals infinitely scalable clean energy generation and storage products that help its customers further decrease their environmental impact.

When it comes to achieving its goals, Tesla prides itself on accomplishing what others deem impossible. That’s why they are opening new factories and increasing output every day, to build a sustainable future.

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

United States

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Deloitte

Founded in 1900

CEO: Joe Ucuzoglu https://www.deloitte.com https://www.linkedin.com/ company/deloitte/

For over 20 years, Deloitte has helped organisations make progress toward delivering sustainable value for their stakeholders – from investors, customers and business partners, to regulators, governments, and communities. Deloitte serves organisations as they redefine their strategies, embed sustainability into their operations, meet disclosure and regulatory requirements and help them accelerate the transformation of their organisations.

Through innovative approaches, digital solutions and lessons learned from its own journey, Deloitte works with organisations to embed sustainability into operations. Deloitte invests in outstanding people of diverse talents and backgrounds to empower them to achieve more than they could elsewhere.

Business Consulting and Services

United Kingdom

Nestle

Founded in 1866

CEO: Ulf Mark Schneider https://www.nestle.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/ company/nestle-s-a-/

As the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestle is driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance the quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, Nestle serves with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.

Nestle can trace its origins back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened. One year later, Henri Nestlé launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals

‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland. Today, Nestle employs around 273,000 people and has factories or operations in almost every country in the world.

Food and Beverage Services

Switzerland

15 Ibm

Founded in 1911

CEO: Arvind Krishna https://www.ibm. com https://www.linkedin.com/ company/ ibm/

IBM brings together all the necessary technology and services, regardless of where those solutions come from, to help clients solve the most pressing business problems.

IBM aspires to make a lasting, positive impact on the world through business ethics, its environment and the communities in which its clients and employees work and live. The business is doing so in a number of ways. For example, IBM acquired Envizi to accelerate its sustainability initiative and to build on its growing investments in AI-powered software to help organisations create more sustainable operations and supply chains. IBM also strives to reach carbon neutrality by 2030 and to divert 90% by weight of non-hazardous waste from landfill and incineration by 2025.

14 Apple

Founded in 1976

CEO: Tim Cook https://www.apple.com https://www.linkedin.com/ company/apple/

As one of the world’s most notable companies, Apple is committed to becoming more sustainable, by pledging carbon neutrality by 2030. Likewise, every Apple product will be made with clean energy and even more recycled and renewable materials.

Apple believes that using recycled materials is one of the ways it can lower the business' carbon impact of its products, since these materials often have a lower carbon footprint than materials from primary sources. That’s why Apple is sourcing more recycled content than ever, which brings the business closer to its goal of one day making products with only recycled and renewable materials.

Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

United States

13 AutoDesk

Founded in 1982

CEO: Andrew Anagnost https://www.autodesk. com https://www.linkedin.com/ company/ autodesk/

Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Its technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerising blockbusters, Autodesk software helps its customers to design and make a better world for all.

Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Maya, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Autodesk’s software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps into the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D.

At Autodesk, sustainability is about creating technology that improves energy and material productivity. It’s about supporting innovators through grants, software donations and

Microsoft

Founded in 1975

CEO: Satya Nadella https://www.microsoft.com https://www.linkedin.com/ company/microsoft/

Every company has a mission. Microsoft is to empower every person and every organisation to achieve more. The business believes technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Microsoft’s culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it.

By 2030, Microsoft has pledged to be carbon negative, and by 2050, it will remove all of its historical emissions since the business was founded in 1975. What’s more, by 2030, Microsoft will replenish more water than it uses and there will be zero waste across its direct waste footprint.

Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of more than 220,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Software Development

United States

Amazon

Founded in 1994 CEO: Andy Jassy https://www.amazon.

Amazon is guided by four principles: Customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. / Amazon is driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. The business embraces new ways of doing things, making decisions quickly without the fear of failure. Amazon has the scope and capabilities of a large company and the spirit and heart of a small one.

Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: Shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. What’s more, Amazon’s mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company.

Technology, Information and Internet

United States