Best Buy

Best Buy, an Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses company headquartered in the US, reported its Scope 1 emissions as 185,561,000 kg CO2e in 2025. Its Scope 2 market-based emissions for the same year were 82,445,000 kg CO2e, while location-based Scope 2 emissions totalled 245,443,000 kg CO2e. Scope 3 emissions for 2025 were approximately 15.7 billion kg CO2e, with significant contributions from the use of sold products (about 12.6 billion kg CO2e), purchased goods and services (about 2.98 billion kg CO2e), employee commute (60,281,000 kg CO2e), and business travel (28,917,000 kg CO2e).

Best Buy has set ambitious climate commitments. The company has signed The Climate Pledge, committing to achieve carbon neutrality across its business by 2040. In 2019, Best Buy set a near-term Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) goal to reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2030, from a 2017 baseline. Additionally, the company aims to reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions from the use of sold products by 20% by 2030, also from a 2017 base-year. Previous targets included a 75% reduction in carbon emissions in operations by 2030 (over a 2009 baseline).