Methodology: How TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2026
The top company on this year’s ranking is South Korea-based JYP Entertainment, which discovers, manages, and develops artists like K-pop groups TWICE and Stray Kids. “JYP has continued to drive innovation in the global music industry while maintaining steady growth,” CEO Jung Wook wrote in the company 2024 ESG report. “As part of our efforts, we are pursuing greenhouse gas reduction through our ‘2050 Carbon Neutrality Roadmap’ and proudly became the first company in the domestic entertainment industry to achieve RE100 [100% renewable energy].” Wook said the company is monitoring energy use and efficiency and waste reduction to foster sustainable concert culture, using eco-friendly materials and packaging for merchandise.
Nvidia (no. 6), the fastest growing company in the U.S., has achieved big green goals this year, announcing that all of the offices and data centers it directly operates are run on 100% renewable energy. Innovation is helping Nvidia create GPU chips that are more efficient at powering AI than traditional CPUs—the Blackwell platform is 25x more energy efficient for LLM inference than the Hopper generation. “We are working to reduce emissions wherever we can. For the first time, we published a product carbon footprint summary for a GPU-accelerated server,” CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a 2025 Sustainability report. “We found that manufacturing-related emissions are significantly lower than previously estimated—a testament to the power of AI to optimize products, processes, and supply chains.” Nvidia has also tried to understand its own environmental impacts by tracking the greenhouse gasses emitted throughout life cycles of its products from raw material extraction to production and assembly, and improving the recyclability of its products by creating programs that take in and disassemble older generation chips into components and using recycled bits in new chips.
