Rightmove’s purpose is to make home moving in the UK easier and in doing so, we will innovate to help our consumers and customers use technology to save time and resources, reducing their own environmental impact and carbon footprint. Our ability to reach the largest UK property market audience and professionals, gives Rightmove an opportunity to contribute to the reduction of the UK’s carbon footprint, as well as to focus on our own operations and our own emissions.
Alignment with the UN SDGs
Our latest Environment report provides full details of our environment strategy and reporting, including our Carbon Transition Plan, TCFD statement and our validated SBTi targets.
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting
For further information, including our Scope 3 emissions, please refer to the Environment section of our latest Annual Report.
Carbon Transition Plan
We are pleased to present our first Carbon Transition Plan which sets out our strategy and actions to achieve Net Zero.
For further details please see our 2025 Annual Report.
SBTi Near-Term and Net-Zero Targets
Rightmove plc has approved near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets with the Science Based Targets initiative. These targets can be found at https://sciencebasedtargets.org/companies-taking-action and are as follows:
Timeframe
| Net-Zero | reduce absolute scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions by 90% by 2040, from a 2020 base year, and reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions 90% by 2040 from a 2020 base year. |
| Near-term | reduce our absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 47.6% by 2030, compared to our FY2020 base year and our absolute scope 3 GHG emissions 42% within the same timeframe. |
We are aiming to reach net-zero in our direct operations (Scope 1 and 2) ahead of this, by 2030.
Please see our Annual Report for progress against these targets.
Long-term targets to achieve Net Zero
For details of our Pathway to Net Zero, please see our Annual Report
TCFD
We are committed to reporting in line with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (‘TCFD’) and its recommendations. Our latest TCFD Statement can be found in the ESG section of our latest Annual Report.
Governance
Our climate governance is incorporated into our main governance structure with oversight from the Board. The Chief Financial Officer has executive responsibility for implementing Rightmove’s ESG strategy and chairs the Risk Committee. Our Governance structure can be found here.
Strategy
Rightmove’s platform continues to capture over 80% of all time spent on property portals, which, combined with the evolving expectations of consumers on environmental matters, puts Rightmove in a unique position to contribute to the reduction of the UK’s carbon footprint through our platform’s datasets, which provide insights to consumers, partners, the UK government and property professionals. We recognise that we have an important role to play in the UK government’s drive to Net Zero by 2050 and need to continue to build climate resilience into our business model and strategy, as well as to continue to focus on minimising our own emissions. We are committed to being a Net Zero business by 2040.
Risk Management
The Board has overall oversight and responsibility for Rightmove’s Risk Management Framework, which supports the identification, assessment and management and control of the risks facing Rightmove – this is described in detail, together with the Board, Audit Committee and Risk Committee responsibilities, in the Risk Management section of our Annual Report. The Risk Management Framework includes ESG and climate-related risks, which are established as their own risk categories and fully integrated into the risk register. The Board and Audit Committee review all significant and emerging risks semi-annually.
Metrics and Targets
Please find our Energy and Greenhouse Gas Report above. Our environmental targets and our progress against these can be found in our latest Annual Report.
The UK’s current target is to become Net Zero by 2050, and 25% of the UK’s emissions are directly attributable to property¹.
As consumers and other stakeholders become increasingly concerned about the environment, sustainability will become a key discriminator in land, build, property selection and homeowning/financing. Policymakers and companies will face greater pressure to act.
Using our market leading information and data for the benefit of all industry stakeholders to progress sustainability and to reach our internal company targets. Please turn to our latest Annual Report for further details on our Go Greener strategy.
Greener Rightmove
Continue to make our business more sustainable by minimising our environmental impact and becoming a Net Zero business by 2040 and in our direct operations by 2030
Greener Moves
Become the leading trusted voice to help people go greener.
Our Go Greener employee group was launched in 2023 to embed the Go Greener initiative across Rightmove and to create bottom-up momentum and ownership of environmental projects.
Launched in October 2024, our third Greener Homes Report uses our whole of market data to track the progress towards sustainable homes. We outline the current obstacles, and suggest ways to accelerate the transition to a greener housing stock. We also look at the emergence of a ‘green wealth divide’, the impact of the new Government’s 2030 EPC targets for rental homes, and the things that could be done to help households go greener. In addition, we reveal the opinions of thousands of home-owners, renters and landlords, to show how people are feeling about the progress that’s been made, as well as what could come next.
Rightmove Greener Homes Report
Rightmove reports against the following indices: