Brambles sustainability score: 48/100
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Brambles operates a global pallet and container pooling business, providing reusable logistics assets to customers across FMCG, retail, and industrial sectors. Headquartered in Sydney, the company pools approximately 348 million pallets, crates and containers across some 60 countries, principally through its CHEP business, making it a dominant player in circular logistics infrastructure.
Founded 1875Head office Sydney, AustraliaStaff ~12,000Revenue ~US$6.67BWebsite ↗
Brambles demonstrates solid carbon accounting and ambitious near-term targets, tracking ahead of SBTi glidepath. Critical gaps: water use entirely unquantified, Scope 3 reduction partly driven by lower pallet volumes rather than structural decarbonisation, and carbon neutrality still relies on credit purchases for residuals.
Brambles scores 48/100 (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 June 2026.
That places Brambles joint 211th of 1,023 companies scored, and 1st of 22 in Shipping / Logistics.
What is Brambles doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Transparency & Accountability (8/10, 8/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (4/10, 7/10).
Where Brambles 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 waterMeasure its water footprint and set reduction targets.
- Emissions from its supply chainMap its full value chain and run a supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow a consistent fall over several years across its operations and supply chain.
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 chain7/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling7/10No consistent fall over several years across its operations and supply chain.
- How clean its energy is7/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature7/10No verified restoration beyond its own footprint, or supply chain not mapped for nature risk.
- How it uses materials and handles waste7/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water4/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets7/10No validated long-term net zero target.
- How openly it reports8/10No mission-locked structure, such as B Corp certification.
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How is Brambles's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Brambles's score based on?
9 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
56% of them were published by Brambles itself; the rest come from independent sources.
“Total Scope 1 and Scope 2 (market based) GHG emissions (ktCO2-e) 29.5”
“Brambles' renewable electricity results include electricity from renewable contracts 56%, onsite generation 6% and Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) 38%.”
“Achieving 17.2% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across entire value chain (Scope 1, 2 and 3) on the FY20 baseline”
“42% reduction in absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions on 2020 levels”
“CDP A List for both Climate Change and Forests awarded to Brambles in 2024”
“quantitative measurements of progress against two targets were not performed or reported”
“Brambles' near-term and net-zero targets are validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.”
“Brambles discloses to CDP and was named to the CDP Climate Change A List (2024).”
“Brambles is a constituent of the Dow Jones Best-in-Class (Sustainability) World Index.”
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How does Brambles compare with other shipping / logistics companies?
Brambles is the highest-scoring shipping / logistics company we've rated.
Among the 22 major shipping / logistics brands we've scored, Brambles sits 1st of 22.
Who comes next in Shipping / Logistics?
Brambles leads its sector. These are the next 3 down.
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