Xiaomi sustainability score: 29/100
Xiaomi is a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer founded in 2010, headquartered in Beijing. It designs and sells smartphones, home appliances, wearables, and electric vehicles.
More about Xiaomi
The company operates globally and is one of the world's largest smartphone makers by volume, with significant presence in IoT and smart home devices.
Founded 2010Head office Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaStaff ~46,000Revenue ~$50B USD (RMB 365.9B)Website ↗
Xiaomi reports emissions data and circular economy progress but faces critical credibility gaps. Operational emissions have doubled since 2021 despite a 2030 reduction target, Scope 3 data vanished from 2024 reporting, and the company lacks third-party verification and SBTi validation. Nature and biodiversity impacts remain entirely unreported for a hardware company with mining-intensive supply chains.
Xiaomi scores 29/100 (Significant gaps) 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 Xiaomi joint 706th of 934 companies scored, and 30th of 37 in Electronics / Hardware.
What is Xiaomi doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Resource Use & Waste (6/10, 6/10). Weakest on Nature & Biodiversity Impact and Emissions Trajectory (1/10, 2/10).
Where Xiaomi lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations6/10Its 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 falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is4/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- Its effect on nature1/10No evidence it knows its main risks to nature.
- 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 targets3/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports5/10No dedicated sustainability role, board oversight or public report.
- Its record on controversies6/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Xiaomi's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Xiaomi's score based on?
11 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
27% of them were published by Xiaomi itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 6 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
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How does Xiaomi compare with other electronics / hardware companies?
Where Xiaomi sits among electronics / hardware peers.
Among the 37 major electronics / hardware brands we've scored, Xiaomi sits 30th of 37.
Who scores higher in Electronics / Hardware?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Xiaomi.
LG has strong absolute emissions reductions in operations and comprehensive waste recycling, but renewable energy penetration remains under 20% despite RE100 membership.
See the breakdown →NVIDIA's reported Scope 3 nearly tripled in two years, from 3.6 Mt in FY2024 to 10.7 Mt in FY2026, and it does not report the use-phase emissions of the GPUs it sells, which Greenpeace estimates at up to 21 Mt in 2025.
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