IKEA (Ingka Group) sustainability score: 39/100
Ingka Group is the largest IKEA franchisee: it runs most IKEA stores (375 large stores and 36 city stores in 2025) plus Ingka Investments and Ingka Centres. It is not the whole IKEA brand; Inter IKEA Group, the franchisor, is a separate company.
More about IKEA (Ingka Group)
Its parent, Ingka Holding B.V. in Leiden, Netherlands, was incorporated in 1982, and IKEA's roots go back to 1943. Ingka had 166,460 employees and €41.5 billion revenue in FY25.
Founded 1982Head office Leiden, NetherlandsStaff ~166,460 (FY25)Revenue ~€41.5B (FY25)Website ↗
Ingka cut its own operational emissions sharply and has SBTi-approved targets, but for FY25 it left out the product and food emissions that make up about 81% of its footprint, so progress on its headline target can't be shown. The value-chain emissions it did report rose, water use rose 11%, and it missed its 100% renewable electricity target at 94.8%. An NGO report on logging in Romanian forests Ingka owns, which Ingka disputes, also counts against it.
IKEA (Ingka Group) scores 39/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Companies can never pay for anything about their own score. Last verified October 2026.
That places IKEA (Ingka Group) joint 432nd of 934 companies scored, and joint 23rd of 50 in Retail (non-fashion).
What is IKEA (Ingka Group) doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Targets & Commitments (9/10, 8/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Emissions Trajectory (3/10, 4/10).
Where IKEA (Ingka Group) lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations9/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is7/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste6/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water3/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets8/10No validated long-term net zero target.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies6/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is IKEA (Ingka Group)'s SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas IKEA (Ingka Group)'s score changed?
IKEA (Ingka Group)'s score has moved from 42 to 39 across 2 recorded reviews, down 3 points.
- 42 → 39-328 October 2026
Europe RE100 re-score under v2.5.21 (owner rulings 2026-10-28). History gap: the last recorded row is 42 (2026-02-08, initial_score), but the live score before this change was 36 (previousScore 42). The intermediate change(s) were not recorded at the time and are not reconstructed here.
- Scored 428 February 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is IKEA (Ingka Group)'s score based on?
15 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
20% of them were published by IKEA (Ingka Group) itself; the rest come from independent sources.
This page scores Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee, which runs most IKEA stores. It is not the whole IKEA brand: Inter IKEA Group (the franchisor, product design and supply) and other franchisees are separate companies, and their figures and actions earn no credit here. The size deduction uses Ingka's own published climate footprint for FY24, 21.7 MtCO2e, which includes the products it sells. Its FY25 report leaves those product categories out (4.4 MtCO2e reported) and says the full footprint will return in FY26. Ingka's own fuller figure can only make the deduction heavier, so we use it.
12 of 15 sources are independent of the company.
“Scope 1 emissions have decreased by 26.6% from”
“Les données des scopes 1 et 2 ont des niveaux d incertitude bas.”
“Ingka Group achieved a 70.6 per cent reduction in absolute emissions from its own operations compared with its FY16 baseline.”
“The retailer's FY25 Annual Summary and Sustainability Report excludes Scope 3 emissions data”
“We are here FY24 (9.8 million tonnes CO2e)”
“we had achieved a 30.1% reduction in absolute emissions (vs FY16) against our SBTi target of 50% by FY30.”
“a consistent pattern of destructive logging in nine forest areas – seven owned by Ingka and two public forest lands linked to IKEA's supply chain.”
“Through Ingka Investments, IKEA owns more than 51,000 hectares of forest in Romania”
“has had its revised net zero emissions targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).”
“Accuracy of Climate Policy Engagement Disclosure Partial, meets some criteria”
“Within this total, IKEA Retail sales were EUR 39.0 billion in 2025”
“Ingka Investments already owns and operates six wind farms with a total capacity of 180 megawatts in Poland”
“High-quality certificates covered the remaining 37.9%, used in markets where direct renewable sourcing is not yet viable.”
“Ultimately, Ingka Group plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, without relying on carbon offsets.”
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How does IKEA (Ingka Group) compare with other retail (non-fashion) companies?
Where IKEA (Ingka Group) sits among retail (non-fashion) peers.
Among the 50 major retail (non-fashion) brands we've scored, IKEA (Ingka Group) is tied =23rd of 50, with 2 others.
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