Ahold Delhaize

Ahold Delhaize, a food products retailer headquartered in the Netherlands, reported its latest available emissions data for 2025. In 2025, the company's total emissions were approximately 62.84 billion kg CO2e. This included an estimated 2.44 billion kg CO2e for combined Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and approximately 60.4 billion kg CO2e for Scope 3 emissions. Key contributors to Scope 3 emissions in 2025 were purchased goods and services (approximately 50.398 billion kg CO2e) and use of sold products (approximately 3.205 billion kg CO2e).

Looking back at previous years, Ahold Delhaize's total emissions in 2024 were approximately 64 billion kg CO2e, with around 2.57 billion kg CO2e from Scope 1 and 2, and approximately 61.43 billion kg CO2e from Scope 3. In 2023, total emissions were approximately 64.02 billion kg CO2e, comprising about 1.84 billion kg CO2e from Scope 1, approximately 810 million kg CO2e from Scope 2 (market-based), and roughly 61.37 billion kg CO2e from Scope 3. The year 2022 saw total emissions of approximately 64.17 billion kg CO2e, with around 1.84 billion kg CO2e from Scope 1, approximately 1.02 billion kg CO2e from Scope 2 (market-based), and about 61.31 billion kg CO2e from Scope 3.

Ahold Delhaize has set several ambitious climate commitments. The company is committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its entire value chain by 2050. This net-zero ambition includes its own operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2040, aiming for a 90% reduction and 10% removals compared to its 2018 baseline.

Near-term targets, verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), include reducing absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 50.4% by 2030 from a 2018 base year. For Scope 3 emissions, Ahold Delhaize commits to reduce absolute GHG emissions covering various categories (purchased goods and services, capital goods, fuel and energy related activities, upstream transportation and distribution, waste generated in operations, business travel, employee commuting, use of sold products, and end-of-life treatment of sold products) by 42% by 2030 from a 2020 base year. Additionally, the company aims for a 30.3% reduction in absolute Scope 3 Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG) GHG emissions by 2030 from a 2020 base year and is committed to no deforestation across its primary deforestation-linked commodities by 31 December 2025. Ahold Delhaize has also previously achieved a 30% reduction in CO2-equivalent emissions from its own operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2020 compared to a 2008 baseline, surpassing a target to reduce emissions per square metre by 30% by 2020 from a 2008 baseline.