Public data, as of October 2026

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Merck & Co., Inc.

MRKmerck.comLatest disclosure 2024

Merck & Co., Inc. reported about 6.9 million tCO₂e for 2024, and 87% 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: Validated Targets.

Where insetting fits

Scope 3 is 87% of the footprint, the part of the value chain that supplier emissions reductions can reach.

Peer position

Scope 3 is 87% of the footprint, below the peer median of 95%.

Voluntary retirements

Registry records show 269 credits retired for this company.

Emissions

How the reported footprint breaks down by scope and year.

tCO₂e, GHG Protocol scopes
Source: published disclosure, FY2024

Peer benchmark

How Merck & Co., Inc. compares with its industry peers on Scope 3.

Peers: companies in the SBTi industry "Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences", by Scope 3 share of the latest reported footprint.

CompanyScope 3 share%

Merck & Co., Inc.This company87%
McKesson Corporation99%

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Reported emissions by year

Scope 1
Scope 2
Scope 3

FY2024

Scope 1, direct	721,20010%
Scope 2, purchased energy	163,0002%
Scope 3, value chain	6,057,90087%
Total	6,942,100

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

Source document: merck.com

Scope 3 by category, 2024

11 categories itemized

C1Purchased Goods and ServicesLargest category4.7 Mt78%
C2Capital Goods282 kt5%
C3Fuel and Energy Related Activities170 kt3%
C4Upstream Transportation and Distribution424 kt7%
C5Waste Generated in Operations21 kt<1%
C6Business Travel197 kt3%
C7Employee Commuting179 kt3%
C9Downstream Transportation and Distribution12 kt<1%
C11Use of Sold Products2 kt<1%
C12End-of-Life Treatment of Sold Products6 kt<1%
C14Franchises23 kt<1%

Climate targets

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

Status as published by the SBTi

Primary SBTi record: Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ USA, which is known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada

Near-term targetValidated Targets

Classification: 1.5°C
Target year: 2030

Net-zero targetValidated Targets

Net-zero year: 2045

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Voluntary retirements

Voluntary credits retired for this company on public registries.

Registry records naming the company as beneficiary

ProjectRegistryRetired inCredits retired

Hydropower (VCS513)Verra202629
Afforestation + Reforestation (VCS3350)Verra2024240

These are voluntary market retirements, which sit outside the value chain. Inset credits retired on Carbon3 would appear as their own rows, linked to the supplier project.269 credits in total

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Merck KGaA81%

Roche Holding AG96%

Peer median: 95%Scope 3 boundaries differ between reports, so compare shares with care.

Scope 3 position

Below the peer median

The company's Scope 3 share is 87%, against a peer median of 95%.

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

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