Rankings · Big box · United States
Walmart
Publicly traded companyBentonville, Arkansasstock.walmart.com
Includes Sam's Club
3rdof 4 companies in the big box sector
Near the bottom of the four largest US companies in the big box sector on climate, weighted by Spendwell members’ average priorities.
Better choiceWorse choice
Better ranked: Costco (1st) and BJ's Wholesale Club (2nd)
Why it ranks here
Climate
environmental impactCommitted to develop and verify science-based zero SBTi targets by 2024-01-31 through the Business Ambition for 1.5°C program, but did not follow through with this commitment and was removed from SBTi's commitments list. Its disclosed emissions rose 15.7% between 2021 and 2022.
Sources: EP100, RE100, Net Zero Tracker, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), Climate Data Utilityemissions through 2022
3/4
How this is measured
All methodologies are in beta. Expect revisions and improvements.
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