Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS) released its 2025 environmental, social and governance (ESG) report overnight, revealing at the same time that it had achieved its previously stated ambitions for the 2021-2025 period in the areas of workforce development, community volunteerism and carbon emissions reduction.
The company said in a statement that it had spent more than US$270 million on workforce development initiatives since 2021, surpassing its “People” pillar ambition to invest US$200 million by 2025. In 2025 alone the company invested nearly US$53 million in programs to advance job skills and career training for Team Members, hospitality industry professionals and the local labor pool in its regions, it explained.
LVS also said it surpassed its “Communities” pillar target of contributing 250,000 Team Member volunteer hours by 2025, with more than 290,000 hours amassed between 2021-2025 and nearly 35,000 volunteer hours logged for 82 nonprofit organizations in 2025.
It also provided US$11 million in philanthropic contributions to non-profit organizations in 2025 and US$53 million in sponsorships to support its regions’ cultural events and programs during the 2021-2025 reporting cycle.
Under its “Planet pillar”, LVS said it reduced its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 54% in 2025 from a 2018 base year, achieving its Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)-validated 17.5% reduction target as well as its 1.5°C-aligned 30% reduction target in line with the United Nations Paris Agreement. The company supported accomplishment of these targets by accelerating renewable energy use and increasing energy attribute certificate purchases from 8% to 31% during the reporting cycle.
LVS added that it had increased operational waste diversion by 10% over a 2019 base year, surpassing its 5% target. The group’s properties also prevented, rescued or diverted 36% of food waste in 2025, well above the company’s 25% target, and donated 52 metric tons of unserved food to local hunger relief organizations during the five-year reporting period.
“The 2021-2025 reporting period was a time of resilience and sheer determination to reach our targets with the significant challenges the pandemic brought to the hospitality industry in the early part of the cycle,” said Katarina Tesarova, the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer.
“We remained committed to our goals throughout every stage, and the credit for achievement of our ESG targets goes to our Team Members around the world.”
LVS owns and operates Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and is controlling shareholder of Sands China, which owns The Venetian Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao, The Plaza Macao and Sands Macao.
