Meta's total operational greenhouse gas emissions – including Scope 1 and 2 emissions – amounted to 67,200 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent in 2022. Meta's emissions have dropped by nearly 90 percent when compared to 2016 levels, despite having experienced a continual annual growth since 2020.
Operational greenhouse gas emissions from Meta from 2016 to 2022
(in 1,000 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent)
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Emissions in thousand metric tons of CO₂ equivalent
Meta Platforms, Inc. was previously known as Facebook, Inc.
This statistic was compiled using several releases of the publication. Figures have been rounded.
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