LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton sustainability score: 38/100
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton is a Paris-based luxury conglomerate with 215,000 employees and €80.8bn FY2025 revenue. It operates 75 Maisons across fashion, wine, jewellery, and watches.
More about LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
As the world's largest luxury goods group, LVMH dominates high-end retail with significant environmental and labour footprint across global supply chains.
Founded 1987Head office Paris, FranceStaff ~215,000Revenue €80.8B (FY2025)Website ↗
LVMH has solid operational emissions cuts and nature commitments, but Scope 3 emissions rose 5% in 2024 despite intensity-target rhetoric, masking absolute growth through price inflation. Recent labour exploitation convictions at Dior and Loro Piana, combined with weak supply chain transparency and greenwashing on emissions intensity, expose systemic governance failures beneath sustainability marketing.
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton scores 38/100 (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 May 2026.
That places LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton joint 460th of 934 companies scored, and joint 24th of 45 in FMCG / Consumer Goods.
What is LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Targets & Commitments (7/10, 7/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Controversies & Red Flags (3/10, 4/10).
Where LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations7/10Its own emissions aren't independently verified or tracked over several years.
- Emissions from its supply chain5/10Most of its supply-chain (Scope 3) emissions aren't measured.
- Whether its emissions are falling3/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is5/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- 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 waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water5/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets7/10Its targets aren't validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports7/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies4/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's score based on?
17 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
29% of them were published by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 4 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
12 of 17 sources are independent of the company.
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How does LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton compare with other fmcg / consumer goods companies?
Where LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton sits among fmcg / consumer goods peers.
Among the 45 major fmcg / consumer goods brands we've scored, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton is tied =24th of 45, with 1 other.
Who scores higher in FMCG / Consumer Goods?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
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