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Celebrating Meaningful Impact: Target’s 2025 Sustainability and Governance Report

  • Oct 1, 2025
The outside of a Target store.

At Target, our commitment to great design, an elevated shopping experience and a world-class team are hallmarks of our brand. One powerful way we’re delivering for our guests — and strengthening Target for the long term? By innovating around sustainability across our assortment and business operations. We’re able to bring more joy through our products, more efficiency to our experience and greater flexibility to adapt to guests’ needs.

This commitment comes alive through our Target Forward sustainability strategy and in the pages of our 2025 Sustainability and Governance Report. We’re celebrating the many ways that teams across the enterprise have collaborated to bring joy to our guests and build resilience in our business over the past year, in the areas where we can make the greatest impact. This work isn’t simple; delivering sustainability at scale comes with real complexity and headwinds. But thanks to the determination of our teams, we’re making measurable progress.

A headshot of Agata Ramallo Garcia, VP and head of enterprise sustainability at Target.

Since we launched our Target Forward sustainability strategy in 2021, we set out to drive progress where it matters most: tackling business challenges with solutions that support our long-term growth, make us more resilient and deliver meaningful impact for our team, guests and communities. Our 2025 Sustainability and Governance Report shows what that impact looks like in action.

Agata Ramallo Garcia Vice President and Head of Enterprise Sustainability, Target

Our team in action

We’ve seen tangible results from innovating around sustainability through our products and in our supply chain — and making an impact thanks to the efforts of our teams, partners and communities.

Our teams continue to drive innovative, sustainable solutions that inspire guests to shop and make our business model more resilient.

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  • A mannequin wearing a Universal Thread dress in a Target store.

    For guests looking to make sustainable choices, we need to make it easy for them to shop based on their interests. As of February 2025, all our Universal Thread apparel received EON’s Digital Product Passports, with a scannable QR code on their label that links to the product’s sustainability story.

  • A row of Everspring scent diffusers line a store shelf.

    Universal Thread and Everspring became our first brands “built for circularity” — designed to make the most of existing resources and, as a result, reducing waste — demonstrating how sustainability can drive cost efficiencies that benefit you and our business.

  • A baby sits smiling in a car seat.

    Thanks to our guest-favorite Car Seat Trade-in events, we recycled 15.5 million pounds of material in 2024 and gave it a second life as new products within our owned brand assortment.

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With fewer emissions, less waste and more responsible use of resources, we can build resilience across our operations and supply chain.

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  • Solar panels covering the lot of Target’s Vista, Calif., store.

    More than three-quarters of the electricity for our operations came from renewable sources in 2024, surpassing our 2025 goal of 60%. And we continue to boost the efficiency of our stores and other facilities — and cut emissions — by tapping solutions like natural refrigerants and transitioning to energy-efficient LED lighting. We also achieved a 41.3% reduction in absolute emissions from our operations, compared to 2017, helping us cut costs and stay in step with regulatory and market conditions.

  • A GSCL team member moves a box above a conveyor belt.

    In 2024, we lowered our scope 3 emissions — those generated from our entire supply chain, including the products and services we sell — by 5.6% from our 2017 baseline. How we did it: by partnering with our suppliers and vendors to streamline their operations and focusing on more efficient transportation and energy solutions.

  • A guest picks up a bunch of bananas inside a Target store.

    We cut operational food waste by 55% from our 2017 baseline across our nearly 2,000 stores, 60 supply chain facilities and headquarters through efforts like better forecasting as well as more food donations and composting.

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Our team is at the heart of our culture, strategy and success, and key to making deep connections in the communities we serve.

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  • Two team members smile and walk down an aisle.

    Through our Dream to Be benefit, tens of thousands of team members have enrolled in tuition-free education programs at more than 40 colleges and universities since 2021, supporting their long-term career growth.

  • A Hometown Foundation recipient presents to a group of people.

    Target and Target Foundation invested $406 million in grants in 2024 — funding that has supported efforts like affordable housing through PRG Inc., a Twin Cities community-based developer, and small business growth through DreamSpring, a nonprofit lender expanding access to capital.

  • Three team members plant a flower in a raised garden bed.

    Target team members volunteered more than 1 million hours in 2024 — the ninth time in company history.

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Building momentum

Bringing joy to our guests and building resilience in our business: That’s the power of sustainability at Target. And it’s why we continue to work toward meeting our Target Forward goals and having a positive impact through our team and operations, the products we sell and the guests we serve. Download our latest Sustainability and Governance Report to learn more

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