Airbnb, Inc. sustainability score: 47/100
Better than 76% of E-commerce / Online Retail
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Airbnb is an online marketplace for short-term lodging and tourism experiences, operating millions of listings globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, it dominates the peer-to-peer accommodation sector, competing with traditional hotels and booking platforms like Booking.com.
More about Airbnb, Inc.
Revenue exceeded $11 billion in 2024.
Founded 2008Head office New York City, United StatesStaff ~7,300Revenue $11.1B (FY2024)Website ↗
Airbnb has cut corporate emissions 82% since 2019 but absolute platform emissions remain flat despite revenue doubling. The critical gap: host properties and guest travel are excluded from its net-zero boundary entirely, masking the actual environmental footprint of facilitating hundreds of millions of stays annually. Intensity-based targets and heavy reliance on carbon offsets further weaken credibility.
Airbnb, Inc. scores 47/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified May 2026.
That places Airbnb, Inc. joint 236th of 1,023 companies scored, and joint 5th of 26 in E-commerce / Online Retail.
What is Airbnb, Inc. doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Energy Source (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Resource Use & Waste (2/10, 3/10).
Where Airbnb, Inc. lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Its effect on waterMonitor its water use and take measures to reduce it.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteShow active waste reduction, reuse or repair.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling4/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is7/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature4/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste3/10No active waste reduction, reuse or repair shown.
- Its effect on water2/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets6/10No validated long-term net zero target.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Airbnb, Inc.'s SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Airbnb, Inc.'s score based on?
12 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
17% of them were published by Airbnb, Inc. itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Scored on 4 April 2026 under an earlier version of our method. We're re-checking it under the current method.
10 of 12 sources are independent of the company.
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How does Airbnb, Inc. compare with other e-commerce / online retail companies?
Where Airbnb, Inc. sits among e-commerce / online retail peers.
Among the 26 major e-commerce / online retail brands we've scored, Airbnb, Inc. is tied =5th of 26, with 2 others.
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