Goldman Sachs is a global investment bank and financial services firm headquartered in New York, providing investment banking, trading, and asset and wealth management.
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Goldman Sachs reports assured operational emissions, but its Scope 1 rose 4% in 2024 and it publishes no financed-emissions total, its main footprint. Banking on Climate Chaos records its fossil-fuel financing rising by $9.5 billion to $28.5 billion in 2024. Its 2030 financing targets are intensity-based, not absolute, it left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance in December 2024, and it buys offsets equal to all its operational emissions.
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. scores 31/100 (Below expectations) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Fees pay for the review, never the result. Last verified October 2026.
That places Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. joint 588th of 847 companies scored, and joint 37th of 51 in Financial Services / Banking.
Where Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. sits among financial services / banking peers.
Among the 51 major financial services / banking brands we've scored, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is tied =37th of 51, with 1 other.
Its three lowest-scoring questions, and what the evidence didn't show.
Goldman does not publish financed emissions total; floor applies.
Goldman does not publish PCAF-basis financed emissions (Scope 3 Category 15).
Operational emissions (Scope 1 + 2 market + business travel) rose 10% from 103,009 tCO2e in 2023 to 112,911 tCO2e in 2024, driven by 12% rise in business travel.
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See the breakdown →Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.'s score has moved from 36 to 31 across 2 recorded reviews, down 5 points.
Fortune 50 re-score on methodology v2.5.17 (retail-bank Q10 exclusion only with a PCAF total); financed-emissions 0.70x floor shown
Initial score at platform launch
The formula and all 14 sources.
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × Scale14 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
9 of 14 sources are independent of the company.
“Scope 2 Emissions (Market-based) (tCO2e) 8,784 9,252 468 5%”
“despite a significant increase in employee headcount over the same timeframe”
“We report Category 6-Scope 3 (Business Travel) emissions from our operations at this time.”
“Goldman Sachs $28.5 BILLION”
“Goldman Sachs did not commit to reduce its financed emissions in absolute terms.”
“Ninety-six percent of this is in line with RE100 market boundary criteria and requirements for firms joining prior to 2021.”
“Global water (m3) 929,721 918,515 11,206 1%”
“We have integrated oversight of climate-related risks into our risk management governance structure, from board-level oversight at the firmwide and legal entity levels”
“Goldman Sachs appears to be unsupportive of regulated corporate climate disclosure regulation.”
“its goal to align its financing activities with net zero by 2050, and its interim sector-specific targets remained in place”
“Goldman Sachs has quit the United Nations-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance”
“Goldman Sachs' departure appears to have kicked off a wave of other banks ditching NZBA membership.”
“GS' failure to align financing practices with its commitment and the scientific consensus exposes the Company”
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Goldman Sachs is a global investment bank and financial services firm headquartered in New York, providing investment banking, trading, and asset and wealth management. The current holding company was incorporated in 1998 (its roots go back to 1869). It had about 47,400 employees and $58.3 billion in FY2025 net revenues.
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