Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto, headquartered in the UK and operating in 'All Other Metal Ore Mining', reported its latest Scope 1 emissions for 2025 as 24,000,000,000 kg CO2e (approximately 24 million metric tons CO2e).

For 2024, the company's Scope 1 emissions were 23,000,000,000 kg CO2e (approximately 23 million metric tons CO2e).

In 2023, Rio Tinto's total emissions were approximately 54 trillion kg CO2e. This included Scope 1 emissions of 23,300,000,000 kg CO2e (about 23.3 million metric tons CO2e), Scope 2 emissions (market-based) of 9,300,000,000 kg CO2e (about 9.3 million metric tons CO2e), and Scope 3 emissions of 1,747,800,000,000 kg CO2e (about 1.75 billion metric tons CO2e). Key contributors to Scope 3 emissions included processing of sold products (540,600,000,000 kg CO2e) and purchased goods and services (15,200,000,000 kg CO2e).

Looking back, in 2022, Rio Tinto's Scope 1 emissions were 22,700,000,000 kg CO2e, Scope 2 market-based emissions were 9,600,000,000 kg CO2e, and Scope 3 emissions were 1,175,200,000,000 kg CO2e. In 2021, Scope 1 emissions were 22,800,000,000 kg CO2e, Scope 2 market-based emissions were 10,100,000,000 kg CO2e, and Scope 3 emissions were 1,149,300,000,000 kg CO2e. For 2020, Scope 1 emissions were 22,900,000,000 kg CO2e, Scope 2 market-based emissions were 10,400,000,000 kg CO2e, and Scope 3 emissions were 1,182,900,000,000 kg CO2e.

Rio Tinto has set ambitious climate commitments. The company aims to reduce its absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 15% by 2025 and by 50% by 2030, against a 2018 equity baseline. Furthermore, Rio Tinto has an ambition to achieve net-zero emissions from the shipping of its products by 2050. The company also states an overarching aim to reach net zero for all scopes by 2050. Rio Tinto is committed to partnering with customers and suppliers to facilitate their decarbonisation efforts, targeting net zero by 2050 for Scope 3 emissions. However, they have not set an overall Scope 3 emissions target due to the limited direct influence on customer decarbonisation activities and the need for technology maturation.