Lots of companies claim to be sustainable.
We built SINK to find out if thatβs true.
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Your medicine doesn't go straight from the factory to the chemist. A middleman moves it.
In the US, that's a handful of giant companies most people have never heard of.
We scored four of them on sustainability. The best got 37 out of 100.
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Banks' biggest climate impact is the emissions from what they lend to and invest in.
We scored six of the biggest US banks. Not one publishes a total for those emissions, and not one gets to 60.
Bank of America and Citi lead on 34.
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The AI boom has a carbon bill.
We scored six tech giants on sustainability. Not one of them gets to 60, our mark for leading practice.
Microsoft's emissions are up 25% in a year. Meta's quit RE100. NVIDIA's supply-chain emissions have tripled.
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Jewellery & watches is new on SINK.
8 brands scored. None reaches 60, our line for leading practice.
Closest: Swarovski, 56.
Omega scores 27. Its owner, Swatch Group, scores 49. A parent's record doesn't lift its brands.
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Finisterre is a B Corp, scoring 116 on B Lab's assessment. The median is 51.
SINK scores it 52/100, joint 5th of 40 outdoor brands.
Own emissions: down 28% since 2020. Total footprint: up.
B Corp and carbon measure different things.
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The EU wants to delay its methane rules for imported oil and gas by a year.
Methane traps over 80 times more heat than COβ over 20 years.
SINK sustainability scores:β¨Woodside 24β¨Repsol 21β¨BP 20β¨TotalEnergies 18β¨Shell 17β¨Exxon Mobil 15
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The EU put 32.4kg of new electrical goods per person on sale in 2024.
β¨It collected 12.3kg of e-waste per person.
SINK sustainability scores:β¨Fairphone 64β¨Apple 42β¨Sony 40β¨Lenovo 39β¨Xiaomi 29β¨Samsung 28
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It's October. It's cold. It's raining. And England is still in drought.
Reservoirs are 21% below normal and 10 water companies still have hosepipe bans.
We scored Britain's 11 big water companies on climate.
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If you have a workplace pension, you probably own a slice of every FTSE 100 company.
SINK sustainability scores:
Sage 64 (top)
Average 39
Ithaca Energy 16 (bottom)
Good at counting carbon. Not at cutting it.
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We scored every FTSE 100 company on climate.
Average: 39/100. Good at counting carbon (7.0/10), poor at cutting it (4.6/10).
Scottish Mortgage scores 26. easyJet scores 25.
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