The method used in the Accountability Rating for measuring companies’ social and environmental impacts is to be refined before the Rating is applied to the world’s largest companies later this year.
For 2007, for the first time, the global Accountability Rating included an assessment of companies’ impacts. This was applied alongside the comprehensive evaluation of their strategy and systems that has been the basis of the Accountability Rating since its launch in 2004.
From Australia's The Age to Brazil's Jornal de Commercio to China's INFZM, the world's media have been reporting the results of the Accountability Rating.
The findings of the 2007 global Accountability Rating of the world's largest companies were first released by Fortune magazine on 1 November 2007.
Since then, they have been reported by print and online media outlets worldwide.
