Tonight's World Cup sponsors, scored on climate.
All seven FIFA World Cup 2026 Partners scored 0–100 on public climate evidence, from Visa to Saudi Aramco. Open methodology, no offsets counted.
Restaurants have a hygiene rating in the window. Companies have nothing like it for climate, so we built one.
SINK scores companies 0–100 using only their own public records: how much they pollute, what they've promised to change, and the evidence behind both. Same checklist for every company. Results published whether they engage or not. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. The full methodology is open, so you can check the working on every number below.
Tonight, seven companies hold FIFA Partner status, the top sponsorship level, logos on every board at the most-watched sporting event on Earth1. Here is their rating in the window:
| # | Company | SINK score | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visa | 51 | Making progress |
| 2 | Lenovo | 39 | Below expectations |
| 3 | Adidas | 37 | Below expectations |
| 4 | Coca-Cola | 33 | Below expectations |
| 5 | Hyundai (note 2) | 29 | Significant gaps |
| 6 | Qatar Airways | 20 | Significant gaps |
| 7 | Saudi Aramco | 12 | Critical concern |
Average today: 32/100.3 When we published, nobody reached the top half of the scale.
Three things this table tells you
1. The winner pollutes less by accident. Visa topped the table when we published, largely because moving money produces far less pollution than moving cars, planes or oil. That comes from the business model. It scores 51/100 today.
2. What companies don't publish counts against them, because it should. These scores measure public evidence. Qatar Airways scores 20, as much for how little it proves as for what it does. From the outside, undisclosed and undone look identical, and a rating that gave credit for silence would be worthless. If any of these companies has better evidence, there's a free process for submitting it. The score changes when the evidence does. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it.
3. The bottom of the table is simple arithmetic. Saudi Aramco scores 12. Our formula ties scores to total real-world emissions and counts no offsets, and Aramco is the world's largest corporate greenhouse gas emitter, around 1.8 billion tonnes of CO₂e a year including the burning of its products, more than any country except China, the US and India.4 Aramco's own reporting covers a fraction of that: 72.6 million tonnes, its operational emissions only.5 Any rater using public maths gets a number like this. Raters using private maths don't publish this table next to a sponsor's logo, which is why you haven't seen it before.
Why this matters beyond tonight
Companies grade their own climate homework, or pay raters who mark it in private. That's the system. A public standard, same questions, same maths, results in the window, is the alternative, and this table is what it produces on its first big night out.
Every score above links to a full ten-question breakdown with sources. Explore all 1,023 scored companies at sinkproject.com.
Scores produced April–June 2026 under SINK methodology v2; these are the live published scores on each company page. Every company is rescored on the same review cycle whether or not it appears in an article.
- 1. FIFA Partner roster: inside.fifa.com/tournament-organisation/partners
- 2. Scored as Hyundai Motor Company, the listed parent of the Hyundai-Kia FIFA partnership.
- 3. Mean of the seven live scores, rounded.
- 4. InfluenceMap, Carbon Majors (2023 data): Saudi Aramco 1,839 MtCO₂e, 4.38% of global CO₂ emissions.
- 5. Aramco reporting, 2023: 72.6 MtCO₂e operational (Scope 1 and 2).
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