Environment | Accenture

Delivering shared success

We embed responsibility and sustainability by design into everything we do.

Responsible Company

Transforming our global economy into one that works for the benefit of all

Supply chain

Committing to responsible procurement

People

Caring for and sustaining our people

Ethics & Governance

Living our core values

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Our environmental commitments

The UN Global Compact has named this the “decade to deliver” on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The call for action has been accelerated as the world navigates climate crises and the global pandemic.

We have an opportunity to change the business of business by incorporating sustainable practices into the design of operations.

As a professional services company, the most significant aspects of our environmental footprint are the greenhouse gas emissions related to travel and electricity used in our locations.

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Taking climate action
Helping clients achieve their goals
Driving supplier sustainability
Our environmental journey
Building environmental sustainability
Engaging our people

Taking climate action

We are setting the pace on net-zero and the environment through our commitments.

UNGC Business Ambition for 1.5° Pledge

We’ve joined 400+ companies in pledging to do our part to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius.

Science-based target

We are the largest professional services company to date to have a target approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.

Achieve net-zero emissions by 2025

We’ll focus on actual reductions across our scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and will invest in nature-based solutions to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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Helping clients achieve their goals

We work with our ecosystem partners to build sustainability solutions for our clients.

Industry transitions to low-carbon energy

Together with IoT company O2, we developed a communications hub to connect U.K. energy consumers, smart meters and suppliers. Read more.

Migrating to a greener cloud

Cloud-based circular operations and sustainable products and services can unlock greater financial, societal and environmental benefits. Read more.

Enabling circular innovation at speed and scale

We helped launch The Circulars Accelerator with the World Economic Forum with the mission to help expedite the circular transition. Read more.

Cloud and software

We announced a partnership with Salesforce to help companies embed sustainability into their business operations. Read more.

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Driving supplier sustainability

Learn how our suppliers are taking environmental action.

Our environmental journey

Since beginning our environmental journey in 2007, we have saved more than 2.43 million megawatt hours of electricity, more than 1.22 million metric tons of CO₂ and generated more than US$326 million in energy savings.

Reducing our environmental impact is built into our Code of Business Ethics (COBE) and our core values, specifically Stewardship. These inform our Environmental Responsibility Policy, which was established in 2007 and is reviewed annually by our Environment governance group.

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Building environmental sustainability

Accountability for our environmental strategy starts at the top and cascades to the governance bodies that oversee our environmental policy and corporate objective of fostering environmentally sustainable growth.

We agree with the industry-led Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) that enhanced disclosure of climate-related financial risks improve financial impact assessments and support the transition to a low-carbon economy.