Heineken

Heineken NV, a prominent global beverage company headquartered in NL, is actively engaged in reducing its carbon footprint and contributing to climate action.

Emissions Performance:

For the 2025 reporting year, Heineken reported a total of approximately 14.9 billion kg CO2e. This breaks down into:

• Scope 1: Approximately 928 million kg CO2e.
• Scope 2: Approximately 105 million kg CO2e (market-based).
• Scope 3: Approximately 13.9 billion kg CO2e. The largest contributors within Scope 3 were purchased goods and services (about 9.5 billion kg CO2e), upstream transportation and distribution (about 1.6 billion kg CO2e), and the use of sold products (about 1.3 billion kg CO2e).

In the 2024 reporting year, Heineken's total emissions were approximately 15.9 billion kg CO2e, with Scope 1 at about 974 million kg CO2e and Scope 3 at approximately 14.8 billion kg CO2e.

Climate Commitments and Targets:

Heineken has set ambitious targets to achieve net-zero emissions across its entire value chain by 2040. This includes a near-term goal to reach net-zero in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030.

Key reduction targets include:

• Overall Value Chain: A commitment to reduce absolute emissions across the value chain by 30% by 2030 (compared to a 2021 baseline).
• Scope 1 and 2 Emissions: A commitment to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 90% by 2030 from a 2022 base year. Heineken also aims to maintain at least a 90% absolute reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from 2030 through 2040.
• Scope 3 Emissions: A target to reduce absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions by 25% by 2030 from a 2022 base year. This includes specific reductions for purchased goods and services, fuel and energy-related activities, upstream transportation and distribution, waste generated in operations, business travel, employee commuting, upstream leased assets, use of sold products, and end-of-life treatment of sold products. A long-term commitment is to reduce these Scope 3 emissions by 90% by 2040.
• Deforestation: Heineken also commits to no deforestation across its primary deforestation-linked commodities, with a target date of 2025.

Heineken's targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as consistent with a 1.5°C warming pathway. The company has also signed the Climate Pledge.