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Sustainability Services

Together with our partners, we help our clients reinvent their businesses at scale, creating business value and sustainable impact for all stakeholders.

Rising to the challenge

From strategy to execution our portfolio of services is designed to help you tackle your greatest sustainability challenges and realize the competitive advantage and impact at scale that sustainability brings:

Sustainability Strategy

Through the lens of 360° value creation, we believe five forces will drive growth opportunities in the next decade. One of these forces is Sustainability–based not only on values and value, but also on resilience. Our Sustainability Strategy capability guides clients in defining their sustainability ambitions, building the business case and developing sustainability roadmaps.

Net Zero Transitions

Transitioning to net-zero is increasingly a priority for all businesses. Entire industries are now urgently looking at how they can reinvent their end-to-end value chains for a sustainable future. Accenture helps with solutions to reduce carbon emissions, from buildings to transport to energy systems to cities while driving social and economic benefits.

Sustainable Value Chain

Organizations are facing a new wave of pressure and urgency to reimagine their value chains to optimize for business value and sustainable impact. Accenture designs for impact by helping organizations to embed sustainability into every stage of the value chain to deliver trusted, net-zero and circular value chains. Read more.

Sustainable Technology

Digital technology is a true enabler of sustainability— and we understand first-hand the vast promise of technology as well as the need to decouple the growth of emissions from growing technology adoption. Accenture enables organizations to use technology more sustainably while also using technology as a vehicle to drive sustainability across the organization, operations, supply chains and ecosystem. Read more.

Sustainability Measurement, Analytics and Performance

As citizens, employees, stakeholders and regulatory bodies increasingly demand businesses to become more sustainable, measuring and reporting ESG performance has become an imperative. Accenture provides the tools, technology, and methodologies to help businesses embed sustainability data, decision-making and performance into everything they do in order to effectively measure business value and sustainable impact for all stakeholders. Read more.

Sustainable Leadership and Organization

Organizations are increasingly pursuing more sustainable business models because it is the right thing to do. This shift also offers financial and competitive value to companies that make ESG and sustainability a priority at all levels of the organization. Accenture helps business leaders build sustainability into everything they do, creating intelligent organizations that are sustainable at their core.

Sustainable Customer Experience and Brand

From the brands they admire to the products and services they actually choose, consumers are increasingly conscious of sustainability. But while many have the best intentions, they are not always likely to change their behaviors. Accenture combines deep insight and experience with technology to help clients convert their customers’ intentions into new behaviors by delivering sustainable customer experiences that meet consumers where they are on their sustainability journeys while shifting perceptions about a brand’s commitment to sustainability.

Leading sustainable transformation

Accenture is driving a sustainable and just transition through the power of technology, data and human centricity.

The European Green Deal is a growth engine for new markets, new products and new services. Businesses that develop the capabilities to transform now will unlock opportunities for growth, through developing new business models, new collaborations and gaining capital for green projects and more transparent supply chains. Data will be the backbone of tomorrow's economy—enabling strategic analysis, performance and impact measurement, efficiency, and innovative business models.

To remain resilient and competitive, companies must not only rethink their processes, but often reinvent themselves completely. Accenture helps to shape and deliver sustainable strategies, business models and outcomes by transforming the digital and sustainable core. We empower the world’s leading businesses to reinvent and thrive in an era of ever-increasing disruption.

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To achieve sustainable growth and meet new regulatory requirements, companies urgently need to deliver emissions reductions, whilst having a positive impact on nature and the communities they serve. This means addressing strategic transformation and implementation in tandem.

In this dynamic business environment, we continue to invest in our capabilities through acquisitions and ventures, deepening our expertise in sustainable business transformation, science-based carbon and climate strategy, energy efficiency, nature and biodiversity, ESG measurement and reporting, consumer behavioural insights, sustainable design and manufacturing.

Our services are driven by data, insight, innovation and cross-industry experience—with long-standing presence in regional European markets. Enabled by our size and global delivery capability, together with our network of ecosystem partners, we create business value and sustainable impact for all stakeholders.

Our Sustainability Services bring together a network of global consultants, engineers, auditors, data architects, analysts, and creatives. By creating a space for exchanging experiences and know-how, we foster inspiration for our clients’ future.

We help our clients to develop the capabilities needed for successful transformations that deliver impact, whilst also addressing ambitious regional policy and regulations.

Sustainability Strategy
Define your ESG ambition and build the business case and roadmap to achieve it. With a focus on science-based targets, nature and community goals we help you create strategies to address climate, nature and social risks and opportunities.

Net Zero Transitions
Build and implement net zero transition plans across the entire value chain including operations, buildings, investments, and supply chains. Focus on green finance, energy management, eMobility and circularity. 

Sustainable Value Chain
End-to-end value chain transformation, leveraging technology and collaboration to enable net zero and circular products, services and processes, as well as responsible sourcing, manufacturing and supply chain planning.

Sustainable Technology
Measure and reduce the environmental footprint of IT, whilst realizing the benefits of creating new sustainability use cases, such as tech-enabled solutions to strategically manage nature-related impacts.

Sustainability Measurement, Analytics and Performance
Embed sustainability data throughout the enterprise. Manage ESG and nature disclosures, including CSRD, TCFD and TNFD. Demonstrate progress through voluntary disclosures such as CDP and GRI.

Sustainable Leadership & Organization
Implement governance structures to support sustainable decision-making throughout the organization. Deliver training and engagement programs for boards, leadership, employees, and stakeholders.

Sustainable Customer Experience and Brand
Achieve competitive advantage with strategies informed by consumer research and behavioral insights, and apply human-centric, regenerative, design 

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Shaping the sustainable organization and assessing business value
Strengthening our clients’ Sustainability DNA and estimating the value of sustainability initiatives for both the business and society through double materiality and financial impact.

Assessing readiness for disclosures and climate risks
Evaluating our clients’ current readiness to comply with the upcoming EU directive and other standards (e.g., TCFD), whilst identifying climate risks, opportunities and associated financial impacts through scenario modelling.

Accelerating decarbonization
Market-leading capabilities for decarbonizing operations, portfolios, and supply chains. Leveraging digital and data to enable energy efficiency, reducing both costs and emissions.

Embedding ESG intelligence
Enabling organizations to control, improve, and drive value creation, by embedding carbon and broader ESG business intelligence into the core business and across the value chain.

Reducing IT footprint
Deploying assets and accelerators to help organizations decouple technology growth from environmental impact—from baselining and measurement through to carbon, energy and e-waste strategy and governance.

Driving nature positive transition
Empowering clients to incorporate nature-related risks and opportunities into their enterprise strategy and risk management processes, by leveraging tech-enabled solutions.

THE ACCENTURE 360° VALUE REPORTING EXPERIENCE

Measuring our success by the value we deliver in all directions.

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A new way to think about energy efficiency

Energy efficiency represents the biggest short-term opportunity for businesses and individuals to cope with the mounting energy cost pressures triggered by current economic and geopolitical forces while helping to create a more sustainable, affordable, reliable, and secure energy future for all.

Advancements in technologies, such as data and analytics, can deliver significant cost savings in ways that weren’t possible a decade ago, making energy efficiency one of the fastest and most cost-effective actions to reduce energy costs while advancing progress towards global climate targets.

Every business leader can take action today to reduce the amount of energy their organization consumes and also influence behavior change in individuals. And although there are a number of areas where efficiency improvements can be made, quick wins can be achieved by focusing on where the greatest short-term potential lies, for example, in buildings, transport, or industrial processes.

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Energy efficiency for resilience: four things to consider

Take these four actions to cut your organization’s energy demand and deliver impact quickly. Accenture’s Andy Wales discusses the benefits.

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Accenture COP27 Virtual Event Series 

COP27: Working together for transformation and progress
Dates:  November 10 - 16, 2022

Join Accenture’s COP27 Virtual Event Series and guide your company toward action in three key areas: sustainable finance, responsible and circular supply chains, and decarbonization and energy efficiency.

The theme of COP27 in Egypt is Together for Implementation. Working with our alliance and ecosystem partners, Accenture is helping our clients build implementation strategies that create impact for people, business, industries and cities.

Panels of our leaders and industry executives will discuss the human-centric strategies, digital technologies, and organizational changes to power your sustainability agenda. We’ll also discuss the implications for environmental social, governance (ESG) reporting across these three critical areas.

Register and learn how to take bold action for your organization.

The next chapter for net zero finance—November 10

Explore how financial institutions can help clients reduce emissions using new decision frameworks, employee upskilling and system integrations.

Open eyes to the Scope 3 supply chain opp—November 14

Learn how to cut carbon emissions across the value chain by gaining visibility into supply networks, equipping procurement to focus resources and act.

Energy efficiency and decarbonization—November 16

Discover how companies in every industry can reduce energy consumption and costs while speeding toward net zero emissions with carbon intelligence.

We will be welcoming the following executives. See the full list of panelists here.

Nina Jais

Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, Global Financial Services Sustainability Lead
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Kris Timmermans

Lead – Supply Chain & Operations
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Wytse Kaastra

Lead – Sustainability Services, EMEA
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Sustainability

Accelerating global companies toward net zero by 2050

Accenture study highlights that the pace of emissions reduction needs to accelerate significantly in this decade to reach net zero by around 2050. Read more.

Sustainable Banking

Retooling the bank for sustainable lending

The need for sustainable lending and having a green asset ratio is crucial, as banks play a role in the future of...

Supply Chain & Operations

How sustainable supply chains can unlock net zero emissions

Accenture CEO Study finds sustainable supply chain strategy is now a major part of the CEO’s environmental focus to...

Businesses must collaborate to make progress on sustainability. We're helping clients move from intentions of COP26 to action at COP27 and beyond.

Peter Lacy
Global Sustainability Services Lead & Chief Responsibility Officer

"Today’s rapid acceleration to digital presents us with a breakthrough opportunity to create a more sustainable future."

— JULIE SWEET, Chair & CEO
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Reimagining the Agenda

Unlocking the Global Pathways to Resilience, Growth, and Sustainability for 2030.

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A FORCE FOR CHANGE

We embed sustainability into everything we do and with everyone we work with.

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Client case studies

COVID-19 has created once-unimaginable challenges—but it also has awakened the world to an incredible opportunity to reimagine and rebuild. We have deep experience helping clients improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, raise the bar on purpose, and embed responsible business—including sustainability—by design.

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Powering an actionable climate roadmap

Helping a petrochemical giant meet its net-zero commitment.

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Scoring goals for the planet with greener buildings

JCI’s smart solution for sustainable spaces.

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Travel

A net zero roadmap for travel & tourism

A decarbonization framework and concrete actions for Travel & Tourism companies to achieve 2050 targets.

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Sustainability drives market cap

How Volkswagen is driving clarity and confidence in their sustainability strategy.

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"As we get closer to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, I am extremely encouraged to see our clients and partners putting increased focus on sustainability, and am excited to help them set and achieve breakthrough sustainability goals."

— PETER LACY, Chief Responsibility Officer and Global Sustainability Services Lead
BUILT FOR CHANGE

Shaping the sustainable organization

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Partners spotlight

At Accenture we work closely with our partners to help our clients achieve their sustainability objectives and deliver outcomes. We work with a range of different partners from the largest software and cloud companies to small, disruptive innovators.

We also work with global organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Global Compact and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

In addition, we have taken strategic minority investments in businesses such as Arabesque S-Ray to accelerate our clients’ ability to benchmark and evaluate sustainability impacts, and Reactive Technologies to help utilities accelerate the transition to low-carbon energy.

Accenture + Microsoft sustainability partnership

Drive your sustainability goals and economic growth forward with Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft.

SAP and Accenture partnership

Accenture and SAP help companies accelerate their sustainability transformation, drive new sources of value, and lead in the circular economy. Read more.

Accenture + Salesforce sustainability partnership

We bring sustainability to the front office by providing true visibility of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. Read more.

What we think

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Accenture Song

Our human moment

If organizations could make sustainability more relevant and actionable, we could mobilize 4.5 billion people more strongly. Our new report shows how.

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5 actions for long-term success in circular packaging

Accenture reveals five concrete actions for CEOs and their teams to ensure long-term success in packaging circular economy.

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Destination sustainability

Discover the sustainable practices shaping the future of the hospitality industry.

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A Leader in ESG/Sustainability Strategy Consulting Services

Accenture has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide ESG/Sustainability Strategy Consulting Services 2023 Vendor Assessment

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles.

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Sustainability blogs

Discover sustainability stories from our leading bloggers. From strategy and industry perspectives to enabling technologies, this is the place where new ideas come alive.

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Steps to cut plastics in products and packaging

Learn steps companies can take to reduce plastic waste across the supply chain and design cycle, with a solution co-developed by Accenture and SAP.

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Voices Public Service

Energy efficiency: immediate impact, lasting benefits

Accenture explores how energy-efficiency could provide the foundation for ongoing government sustainability objectives.

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Energy efficiency levers, inspired by the B20

As discussed at B20, Accenture explains ways companies in developing economies can reduce energy demand to support inclusive energy transition.

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Our leaders

Peter Lacy

Global Sustainability Services Lead & Chief Responsibility Officer
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Toby Siddall

Sustainability Services Lead – Accenture UK&I
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Wytse Kaastra

Lead – Sustainability Services, EMEA
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Ben Murray

Managing Director – Sustainability Services Lead, UKI
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As part of our mission, Accenture is infusing sustainability into everything we do and everyone we work with. Through the combination of human ingenuity and technology we’re making sustainability a force for change. Join our talented collection of thinkers and doers to help build a more sustainable world.

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