Lime, the world’s largest shared micromobility operator, has cut its company-wide carbon emissions intensity by 81.4% since 2019, according to its newly published 2025 Carbon Inventory Report.
That figure represents a 14.6 percentage point improvement on 2024, even as total distance travelled on its e-bikes and e-scooters grew by roughly 250% over the same period.
Zag Daily has tracked Lime’s emissions reporting since 2023 when the company reported a 60% cut in intensity, and in 2024 when it reported 66.8%. Each report has shown steeper cuts alongside faster growth.
The company attributed this year’s progress to a run of operational changes. It reports expanded use of HVO100 renewable fuel for freight logistics to more than 20 European cities, increased use of low-carbon aluminium and battery cells across its fleet, and widened partnerships to recycle batteries and motors from retired vehicles.
Under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a body that checks corporate climate goals against the cuts scientists say are needed to limit global warming, Lime is now four years ahead of its Scope 1 and 2 target and more than two years ahead of its Scope 3 target.
Scope 1 and 2 cover a company’s direct operations and the electricity it buys. Scope 3 covers everything else in its supply chain including manufacturing, materials and logistics, typically making up the largest share of a transport operator’s footprint.
For the first time, Lime brought in engineering consultancy WSP to independently verify its Scope 1 and 2 figures. Its Scope 3 numbers, compiled with analytical support from Optera, now part of Green Project Technologies, were not independently assured.
Asked why, Andrew Savage, Lime’s Vice President of Sustainability, told Zag Daily that Scope 3 verification “is relatively uncommon” among comparable companies and that the company’s inventory “follows the GHG Protocol and uses detailed supplier, life cycle, and operational data to produce the most accurate assessment possible.”
The latest report arrives shortly after Lime’s Nasdaq listing and at a time when sustainability commitments have become more politically and commercially contested. Lime said its 2025 reporting was completed before its IPO and was compiled in the same manner it has used since 2019, with third-party analytical support throughout. It added that Scope 1 and 2 assurance is now a standard step for both public and private companies, and that it publishes annually against SBTi-validated targets in line with industry practice.
