Oatly Group AB sustainability score: 47/100
Better than 74% of Food & Beverage (non-meat)
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Oatly Group AB, based in Malmö, Sweden, makes oat-based drinks and foods, mainly oat milk, sold in Europe, North America and Asia. It reported US$862.5M in revenue for 2025, with 1,388 employees.
Founded 2016Head office Malmö, SwedenStaff ~1,388 (2025)Revenue US$862.459M revenue (FY ended 31 Dec 2025; filing reports in thousands of US dollars)Website ↗
Oatly reports its emissions in detail, but its total rose from 159,727 t in 2020 to 304,193 t in 2025 while its targets are per litre, not absolute, so emissions can keep rising with sales. Its electricity is renewable, but most of its heat came from fossil fuels in 2024. A 2022 UK ASA ruling upheld complaints about its environmental claims.
Oatly Group AB 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 November 2026.
That places Oatly Group AB joint 236th of 1,023 companies scored, and 14th of 51 in Food & Beverage (non-meat).
What is Oatly Group AB doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (6/10, 6/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Targets & Commitments (2/10, 3/10).
Where Oatly Group AB 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
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling.
- Its climate targetsSet specific targets with dates.
- How clean its energy isShow at least half its energy is renewable, with a transition plan.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations6/10Its own emissions aren't independently verified or tracked over several years.
- Emissions from its supply chain6/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling.
- How clean its energy is4/10Less than half its energy shown to be renewable, or no transition plan.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste6/10No verified figures for reuse and recycling across the business.
- Its effect on water5/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets3/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
- Its record on controversies6/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is Oatly Group AB's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Oatly Group AB's score changed?
Oatly Group AB's score has moved from 50 to 47 across 2 recorded reviews, down 3 points.
- 50 → 47-37 November 2026
Re-scored under the current method, using its FY2025 sustainability report. Several marks fell.
- Scored 508 February 2026
Initial score at platform launch
What evidence is Oatly Group AB's score based on?
14 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
36% of them were published by Oatly Group AB itself; the rest come from independent sources.
Oatly's Scope 3 covers purchased goods, fuel and energy, transport, waste and business travel for FY2025. Downstream transport and end of life are not quantified, and use of sold products is not included.
9 of 14 sources are independent of the company.
“Location -based emissions 2025 = Scope 2: 20,659 T”
“Treatment and processing intended for the production of food and beverage products from - Vegetable raw materials”
“eight of its best-selling barista milks in the UK were now made with 100% local oats”
“In 2024, our corporate climate footprint (reported as kg CO2e/L) increased approximately 15% from 2023.”
“Oatly sourced 38 percent of the energy it uses from renewable alternatives in 2024”
“increasing our equivalent share of oats from regenerative agriculture to 7.8%”
“Pilots are currently underway in the United States, Canada, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.”
“Our goal is to reduce our climate footprint by 40% per liter of product by 2030, 70% by 2040 and 89% by 2050”
“This document has been reviewed and approved on December 1, 2025, by the Nominating, Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee”
“In 2024, we also decided to close our production facility in Singapore and discontinued the construction of our second production facility in China.”
“Oatly is now banned from showing the offending ads and has been told by the advertising watchdog to ensure future environmental claims are clearer”
“Four out of five environmental claims fell foul of ASA regulation, resulting in ad bans and a warning to substantiate any future claims.”
“said it had received 109 complaints, including from the campaign group A Greener World”
“Oatly engagiert sich für die Einführung einer staatlich regulierten Klimakennzeichnung auf Lebensmitteln in Deutschland”
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How does Oatly Group AB compare with other food & beverage (non-meat) companies?
Where Oatly Group AB sits among food & beverage (non-meat) peers.
Among the 51 major food & beverage (non-meat) brands we've scored, Oatly Group AB sits 14th of 51.
Who scores higher in Food & Beverage (non-meat)?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Oatly Group AB.
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