The Home Depot is a US home-improvement retailer selling building materials, tools and home goods to consumers and trade professionals.
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The Home Depot's Scope 3 emissions rose from 199.5 Mt to 234.8 Mt between FY2023 and FY2025, and it says it is reassessing its SBTi-validated targets. Its Scope 1 emissions rose every year, waste diverted from landfill fell to about 27%, and it publishes no operational water figure. Washington state fined it $1.6 million in 2024 for selling banned HFC refrigerant products, and LobbyMap grades it D.
The Home Depot scores 28/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Fees pay for the review, never the result. Last verified October 2026.
That places The Home Depot joint 658th of 847 companies scored, and joint 43rd of 48 in Retail (non-fashion).
Where The Home Depot sits among retail (non-fashion) peers.
Among the 48 major retail (non-fashion) brands we've scored, The Home Depot is tied =43rd of 48, with 1 other.
Its three lowest-scoring questions, and what the evidence didn't show.
Combined Scope 1 and 2 marginally down but Scope 1 rose all three years.
FY2025 report publishes no operational water withdrawal or consumption figure.
June 2024: Washington Department of Ecology fined Home Depot $1.6 million for selling 1,058 prohibited HFC refrigerant units after two-year compliance period.
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The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above The Home Depot.
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See the breakdown →The formula and all 14 sources.
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SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale14 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
12 of 14 sources are independent of the company.
“Scope 1 GHG emissions (MT CO e)28 733,000 818,000 917,000”
“Home Depot is included within this initiative because of its significant operational and value-chain emissions”
“Its scope 3 target focuses solely on emissions associated with customer use of sold products.”
“there is still considerable progress needed to achieve our Fiscal 2030 science-based targets”
“found Home Depot has not met benchmark expectations in any of the six assessment areas”
“it lacks an overarching biodiversity strategy or assessment process”
“co-filed, along with Proxy Impact, a biodiversity and nature disclosure resolution at Home Depot”
“Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (“SASB”), and Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) frameworks”
“restrictions on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions”
“The Washington Department of Ecology issued a $1.6 million penalty to The Home Depot for selling prohibited hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) products”
“WA fines Home Depot $1.6M for selling hydrofluorocarbon products”
“Washington’s Department of Ecology has issued a $1.6 million fine to The Home Depot for selling products containing HFCs”
“the California Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable , all of which hold negative positions on climate regulation”
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The Home Depot is a US home-improvement retailer selling building materials, tools and home goods to consumers and trade professionals. A Delaware corporation incorporated in 1978 and headquartered in Atlanta, it had about 472,400 employees and $164.7 billion in FY2025 net sales.
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