Public data, as of October 2026

Company profile

Pearson plc

PSONpearson.comLatest disclosure 2024

Pearson plc reported about 240,000 tCO₂e for 2024, and 98% 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 98% of the footprint, the part of the value chain that supplier emissions reductions can reach.

Peer position

A peer comparison appears once sector peers report their emissions.

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 Pearson plc compares with its industry peers on Scope 3.

Peers: companies in the SBTi industry "Education Services", by Scope 3 share of the latest reported footprint.

CompanyScope 3 share%

Pearson plcThis company98%
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Reported emissions by year

Scope 1
Scope 2
Scope 3

FY2024

Scope 1, direct	4,0952%
Scope 2, purchased energy	11<1%
Scope 3, value chain	234,82098%
Total	238,926

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

Source document: plc.pearson.com

Scope 3 by category, 2024

Scope 3 categories are not itemized yet

Categories appear once a published disclosure splits Scope 3 into the GHG Protocol categories.

Climate targets

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

Status as published by the SBTi

Primary SBTi record: Pearson PLC

Near-term targetValidated Targets

Classification: 1.5°C
Target year: 2030

Net-zero targetValidated Targets

Net-zero year: 2050

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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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Not enough peer data for a benchmark yetScope 3 boundaries differ between reports, so compare shares with care.

Scope 3 position

No peer median yet

The median appears when at least one peer reports all three scopes.

Disclosure coverage

0 of 6 disclose

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

Research summary

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