• INDEPENDENT TARGET VALIDATION
• Adobe has not committed to the Smart Energy Coalition (EP100) energy efficiency program.
• Adobe has set a 100% renewable energy target through RE100 with the following target year used for this Spendwell ranking:
  2025
• Adobe has set near-term SBTi targets covering the following GHG Protocol scopes:
  scope 1

  scope 2

  scope 3
• Adobe has set approved science-based zero SBTi targets with the following target year used for this Spendwell ranking:
  2050
• SBTi has assessed the commitments and targets set by Adobe are aligned with keeping the global climate change temperature increase to 1.5°C.

According to data collected by Net Zero Tracker, Adobe has made a 2050 "Net zero" pledge or claim. These figures are provided for informational purposes only. Being an unvalidated net-zero or similar target, this pledge or claim does not currently factor into Spendwell's ranking.

This information was collected by Net Zero Tracker and is from 2026-06-18. Current data collected by Net Zero Tracker can be found at this link:

Adobe at Net Zero Tracker

• EMISSIONS DISCLOSURE & PROGRESS
• Adobe is disclosing emissions data through the Climate Data Utility in a consistent and transparent manner.

Adobe has disclosed emissions data for 2018 through 2022.

In 2018, Adobe disclosed a total of 632,907.7 CO₂ equivalent tonnes (tCO₂e) and 550,109 tCO₂e in 2022. This is a 13.08% reduction in tCO₂e over this time period.


Most recently disclosed year over year emissions:
Between 2021 and 2022, Adobe increased emissions by 6.07%.

Details about these emissions disclosures can be found at this link:

Adobe at CDU

See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking and how future considerations will qualify for inclusion.

Over the last 6 year period, top exectives at Adobe have included 0 women and 20 men.

A corporation is ranked here by the percentage of it's executive team that is made up by historically underrepresented groups. These underrepresented groups currently consist of women only. See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking and how additional underrepresented groups will be included in the future.

Because Adobe has no women among its highest-paid executives, Spendwell considers it to have paid executive women 0% of what it has paid executive men. This is the poorest score a company can achieve in this ranking. While women are excluded from its highest-paid executives, Adobe did pay its executive men an average of $16,453,803 over its most recent five-year reporting period.

A corporation is ranked here by how much it pays historically underrepresented groups as compared to historically dominant groups. These underrepresented groups currently consist of women only. See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking and how additional underrepresented groups will be included in the future.

Adobe paid its Chairman & CEO around 2,100 times more than its lowest-paid earner (or assumed equivalent) in 2020. Out of the last six reported years, 2020 was the year in which the Chairman & CEO of Adobe took home their largest compensation package.

Over the last six reported years, the 20 largest annual executive compensation packages at Adobe totaled around $391.9 million, with a median package of around $12.9 million. An executive can account for more than one of these packages.

A company is ranked here by how the largest annual compensation package of its highest-paid executive in the last six reported years compares to the annual compensation of its lowest-paid employee, contractor or assumed equivalent. Because Adobe has not made a public, verifiable statement guaranteeing all of its employees and contractors are assured a minimum wage greater than the US federal minimum wage, Spendwell has used a federal minimum wage annual salary equivalent, including the value of benefits, to represent the earnings of the lowest-paid employee or contractor at Adobe.

See the Methodology section of this report for more information about how Spendwell develops this ranking.

• YearAmount spent
• 2022
  $1,440,000
• 2021
  $1,510,000
• 2020
  $1,270,000
• 2019
  $1,340,000
• 2018
  $920,000

• YearAmount spent
• 2021
  $0
• 2020
  $0
• 2019
  $0
• 2018
  $0