Kellogg Company

Kellogg Company’s climate commitments and disclosures have been assessed as misaligned with credible climate action benchmarks. The company’s targets, including a past goal of a 15% reduction in emissions intensity per tonne of food produced by 2020 from a 2015 baseline, have been criticized for lacking the ambition and scope required to meet the Paris Agreement goals. A 2022 study of major corporate climate targets found many, including Kellogg’s, were failing to meet their own stated goals and exaggerating progress. The company’s climate strategy has been cited as an example of greenwashing risk, with external analysis noting that corporate net-zero advocates have misconstrued international energy agency scenarios to justify continued high emissions. While Kellogg acknowledges climate risks to its agricultural supply chain and has set emissions reduction targets, its historical and planned pace of decarbonization, coupled with a reliance on intensity-based metrics that allow for absolute emissions to rise with production, constitutes a pattern of insufficient climate governance and misleading communication to stakeholders.