Construction / Real Estate

Land Securities sustainability score: 54/100

54/100
Making progress-1 since last review
Joint 2nd of 27 in Construction / Real Estate

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About Land Securities

Landsec is a UK-listed REIT operating commercial real estate, retail, and mixed-use developments across the United Kingdom. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in London, it manages over 24m sq ft of property and is one of the sector's largest landlord-operators.

More about Land Securities

The company integrates sustainability into asset management and new development design.

Head office United KingdomStaff ~800Revenue ~£832MWebsite ↗

Our verdict

Landsec has cut absolute emissions 24–33% since 2020 and holds SBTi-validated 2030 targets, but needs material acceleration to hit -47%. Water lacks binding targets entirely. Supply chain and nature outcomes remain unverified; renewable energy still relies on REGO certificates without additionality.

Land Securities scores 54/100 (Making progress) 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 Land Securities joint 69th of 934 companies scored, and joint 2nd of 27 in Construction / Real Estate.

The ten questions

What is Land Securities doing well, and where does it fall short?

Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Transparency & Accountability (8/10, 8/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (4/10, 6/10).

What's missing

Where Land Securities lost points

For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.

  • Emissions from its own operations8/10No 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 falling6/10No consistent fall over several years across its operations and supply chain.
  • How clean its energy is7/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
  • Its effect on nature6/10No verified restoration beyond its own footprint, or supply chain not mapped for nature risk.
  • How it uses materials and handles waste6/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
  • Its effect on water4/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
  • Its climate targets7/10Its targets aren't validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
  • How openly it reports8/10No mission-locked structure, such as B Corp certification.

A score changes when the evidence does. We use new published evidence at the next rescore. Anyone can send us new evidence, free. How to send it.

The calculation

How is Land Securities's SINK score calculated?

Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.

SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale
Industry base impact
Construction / Real Estate sector ceiling.
35 / 100
Performance score
Sum of the ten questions, each scored 0 to 10.
66 / 100
Raw score
Weighted average before scale penalty.
(0.3 × 35) + (0.7 × 66) = 56.7
Scale penalty
Multiplier based on total emissions. Bigger polluters lose more.
× 0.95
Final score
Rounded. Making progress.
54 / 100
How this score has moved

Has Land Securities's score changed?

Land Securities's score has moved from 55 to 54 across 2 recorded reviews, down 1 point.

0255075100552 August 2026543 October 2026
  1. 55 → 54-13 October 2026

    Aggregator-citation sweep: broker citations replaced with the primary disclosures they mirror, re-scored through the guarded pipeline under pinned code 9196601.

  2. Scored 552 August 2026

    Initial public score 55 (publish-draft)

Where the evidence comes from

What evidence is Land Securities's score based on?

13 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.

62% of them were published by Land Securities itself; the rest come from independent sources.

[1]Self-reported
Sustainability Performance and Data Report 2024

“Scope 1: 5,809 tCO2e; Scope 2: 17,667 tCO2e (location-based); Total Emissions: 228,185 tCO2e”

2024
Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5Q6Q7Q8Q9
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[2]Self-reported
Landsec Sustainability Reports & Benchmarking

“Download EY Sustainability Limited Assurance Statement 2025”

Ongoing
Q1Q9Q10
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[3]Self-reported
Sustainability Performance and Data Report 2023

“Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) — Scope 1 and 2 emissions (Table 9)”

2023
Q1
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[4]Independent source
Green Finance Institute: UK TNFD Exemplar Reports

“Landsec has developed a guide for suppliers and partners that outlines core nature requirements”

2024
Q2Q5
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[5]Self-reported
Landsec Annual Report 2024

“READ OUR TNFD DISCLOSURE IN OUR 2024 SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AND DATA REPORT”

2024
Q5Q7
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[6]Self-reported
Landsec Sustainability: Key Information

“33% absolute carbon reduction”

Ongoing
Q3
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[7]Self-reported
Landsec Sustainability Hub

“We are currently exploring opportunities to move our procurement towards direct purchasing from renewable projects through Power Purchase Agreements (PPA).”

Ongoing
Q4
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[8]SEC filing
FCA Regulatory News Service: Landsec NSM Filing

“Developments are also designed to be 100% electric and target maximum use of on-site renewables”

Unknown
Q4
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[9]Third-party verified
Science Based Targets initiative: Landsec Case Study

“Landsec commits to reduce GHG emissions 40% per square meter by 2030, from a 2014 base-year”

Unknown
Q8
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[10]Self-reported
Landsec: We've Updated Our Carbon Reduction Targets

“In 2016 we became the first commercial property company in the world to have its carbon reduction target approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)”

2023
Q8
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[11]Independent source
The Climate Pledge: Signatories (Landsec)

“Landsec is committed to becoming a net zero carbon business by 2040, reducing its absolute carbon emissions (scope 1, 2 and 3) by 90% by 2040”

Unknown
Q8
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[12]Self-reported
Landsec Waste Management

“In 2024/25 we continued to divert 100% of waste from landfill, and recycled 65% of operational waste”

Ongoing
Q6
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[13]Independent source
InfluenceMap: Climate Lobbying Database

“InfluenceMap maintains the world's leading database of corporate and industry association lobbying of climate policy”

Ongoing
Q10
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Land Securities in context

How does Land Securities compare with other construction / real estate companies?

Where Land Securities sits among construction / real estate peers.

Among the 27 major construction / real estate brands we've scored, Land Securities is tied =2nd of 27, with 1 other.

=2/27
Land Securities's rank
42
Industry average
27
Industry low
60
Industry high
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