Public data, as of October 2026

Company profile

General Motors Company

GMgm.comLatest disclosure 2024

General Motors Company reported about 390 million tCO₂e for 2024, and 99% of it sits in Scope 3, in the value chain beyond the company's own operations.

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SBTi statusValidated Targets

Near-term status: Validated Targets. Net-zero status: Commitment Removed.

Where insetting fits

Scope 3 is 99% of the footprint, the part of the value chain that supplier emissions reductions can reach.

Peer position

Scope 3 is 99% of the footprint, close to the peer median of 99%.

Voluntary retirements

No voluntary retirement names this company as beneficiary yet.

Emissions

How the reported footprint breaks down by scope and year.

tCO₂e, GHG Protocol scopes
Source: published disclosure, FY2024

Peer benchmark

How General Motors Company compares with its industry peers on Scope 3.

Peers: companies in the SBTi industry "Automobiles and Components", by Scope 3 share of the latest reported footprint.

CompanyScope 3 share%

General Motors CompanyThis company99%
Toyota Motor Corporation99%

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Related projects

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Reported emissions by year

Scope 1
Scope 2
Scope 3

FY2024

Scope 1, direct	1,238,498<1%
Scope 2, purchased energy	1,071,159<1%
Scope 3, value chain	388,443,35999%
Total	390,753,016

Years without a matched disclosure stay open until a published source is matched.

Source document: gm.com

Scope 3 by category, 2024

14 categories itemized

C1Purchased Goods and Services90.2 Mt23%
C2Capital Goods6.6 Mt2%
C3Fuel and Energy Related Activities702 kt<1%
C4Upstream Transportation and Distribution4.6 Mt1%
C5Waste Generated in Operations340 kt<1%
C6Business Travel66 kt<1%
C7Employee Commuting570 kt<1%
C8Upstream Leased Assets3.5 Mt1%
C10Processing of Sold Products1 Mt<1%
C11Use of Sold ProductsLargest category250.8 Mt65%
C12End-of-Life Treatment of Sold Products1.9 Mt<1%
C13Downstream Leased Assets7 kt<1%
C14Franchises1.1 Mt<1%
C15Investments26.9 Mt7%

Climate targets

What the SBTi listing says about the company's targets.

Status as published by the SBTi

Primary SBTi record: General Motors

Near-term targetValidated Targets

Classification: 1.5°C/Well-below 2°C
Target year: 2035

Net-zero targetCommitment Removed

Net-zero year: Not listed

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Voluntary retirements

Voluntary credits retired for this company on public registries.

Registry records naming the company as beneficiary

No voluntary credit retirements linked to this company

Carbon3 has not found a retirement in the public voluntary carbon market registry data it tracks that names this company as the beneficiary.

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Peer median: 99%Scope 3 boundaries differ between reports, so compare shares with care.

Scope 3 position

Near the peer median

The company's Scope 3 share is 99%, against a peer median of 99%.

Disclosure coverage

6 of 6 disclose

6 of 6 named peers report all three scopes, so their Scope 3 share can be compared.

Research summary

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Related projects

Decarbonization projects that name the company as a partner.

Emerging projects catalog, status as reported by each project

ProjectStatus

Lockport Operations Heat Pump PilotOperational
Fort Wayne Assembly Heat Recovery and Steam Elimination ProjectOperational
Newport Solar PPA for GM Assembly PlantsAnnounced
Hilltopper Wind Farm Renewable Energy ContractOperational
Northwest Wind Ohio Renewable Energy PPAOperational
Newport Solar Renewable Energy PPAOperational
Advanced Copper Recycling Facility - Wieland North America RecyclingAnnounced
Low Carbon SmartMelt Furnace ConversionAnnounced

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