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Accenture 360° Value
Accenture 360° Value
Reporting Experience
Every day, the people of Accenture embrace change and create value for all our stakeholders, in every part of the world—we call it 360° value.
Our 360° Value Reporting Experience captures how we deliver this unique value across six vital dimensions: Sustainability, Talent, Inclusion & Diversity, Client, Experience and Financial. Here you can find all our reporting and data—a comprehensive view of our financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures, and our goals, progress and performance for each.
I invite you to explore our latest report and discover why creating 360° value is at the heart of our business. You will see the value we bring—and the change we make—in every direction.
Julie Sweet
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
see introduction by Julie Sweet
Explore 360° value
Sustainability
One of the greatest forces of change since the digital revolution is here.
See the ways we’re sustainably driving new value and growth.
Talent
Making the best even better—investing in and caring for our 738,000 people.
Learn how we’re supporting our talent and advancing careers globally.
Inclusion & Diversity
Creating our culture of equality creates opportunity everywhere.
Discover how ensuring everyone belongs is delivering 360˚value.
Client
Understanding issues, anticipating needs, investing in solutions:
Discover why 99 of our top 100 clients have been with us for more than a decade.
Experience
Sharing time, talent and tech through volunteering and innovating.
Explore the value of making a difference for our clients, people, partners and communities.
Financial
Better results mean better 360˚value for all our stakeholders.
Learn how we’ve achieved records across all financial metrics in FY22.
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Environment
Achieve net-zero emissions by 2025
Our commitments to the leading standard-setting bodies on climate issues provide external validation for our carbon targets and guide the continuing evolution of our environmental commitments.
Science-Based Target
In 2018, we set a target approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi), a collaboration among CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Our goal is to meet our science-based target by the end of 2025.
Our goal is to reduce our absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 11%.
Our Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduced by 91%,
surpassing our goal of a 65% absolute reduction against our 2016 baseline.
In fiscal 2022,
our total emissions decreased by 68% from our 2016 baseline,
surpassing one aspect of our 2025 target.
Total emissions per unit of revenue reduced by 82%,
surpassing our goal of reducing Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions per unit of revenue intensity by 40% from our baseline in 2016.
Building on our long-standing commitment to reduce our emissions—and reflecting our progress and increased ambitions—we are setting a new science-based target aligned to 2030, with a base year of 2019. This new target has been submitted to the Science Based Targets initiative for approval.
UNGC Business Ambition for 1.5° Pledge
In alignment with the Paris Climate Agreement, we pledged and joined other leading
companies to do our part to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius.
We are focusing first on actual reductions across our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
Our environmental sustainability management is particularly focused on addressing climate change. Our most significant aspects relate to indirect emissions from Scope 2 electricity usage and Scope 3 emissions from business travel and purchased goods and services. Through continuous innovation, we are scaling solutions to make real, lasting change.
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- Prior years have been restated due to a change in methodology for Scope 3 emissions. CO2 emissions related to Office Electricity reflect a market-based (MBM) accounting approach which includes the impact of renewable electricity contracts and residual mix factors. Accenture's carbon emissions for fiscal 2022 have been reviewed by an independent third-party accountant. Refer to the Independent Accountants' Review report for more information.
- Beginning in FY22, we updated the presentation to reflect the sources of our emissions by Scope. Prior periods have been adjusted to conform to the current year presentation.
To address remaining emissions, we are investing in nature-based carbon removal solutions.
Nature-based carbon removal
At the end of fiscal 2022, our nature-based carbon removal portfolio included projects in Indonesia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Our nature-based carbon removal solutions are generally expected to do the following—all while removing CO2 from the atmosphere:
- reforest land
- rebuild biodiversity
- make agriculture more sustainable
- help create green jobs
- allow natural ecosystems to rebound and thrive
At the end of fiscal 2022, our nature-based carbon removal portfolio included projects in:
Indonesia
Since agricultural lands throughout Indonesia are especially susceptible to climate change with floods and droughts causing land degradation, local farmers are one of the social groups most vulnerable to climate change.
Our project will reforest degraded land and engage local communities, cooperatives and farmers in sustainable agroforestry practices, including helping farmers plant trees on their own land. Ultimately, this will help contribute to stabilizing incomes, reducing poverty, increasing biodiversity and promoting community-based action, all while sequestering carbon.
United Kingdom
We are supporting projects that have converted marginal farmland to permanent woodland in Scotland and England. This is expected to lead to the creation of new and diversified, sustainable forests.
Beyond being an effective and cost-efficient natural climate solution, able to remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere, the U.K. woodlands offer diverse local benefits. Woodlands act as important natural water filters, help prevent floods, serve as essential habitats for wildlife and provide recreational grounds to improve the mental and physical health of local communities. Locally appropriate reforestation is valuable in enhancing biodiversity. Woodlands also provide support for employment through sustainably managed and harvested timber.
Over the next 20 years, this program is expected to physically remove 13 million+ metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
Our projects will be registered under the SD VISta standard, where technically feasible, verifying SDG outcomes along withthe carbon removals.
Philippines
Through our project, we will plant native giant bamboo on degraded land to sequester carbon and deliver economic growth.
Bamboo’s root systems absorb rainwater and help to bind the soil, reducing flooding and erosion risks while providing a natural filter to help restore river water quality.
At maturity, approximately 15-20% of the bamboo will be harvested annually and developed into high-quality, fully traceable building materials for international markets. Harvesting the mature clumps does not harm the plant; in fact, it spurs growth and increases sequestration.
This bamboo project will not only help remove carbon from the atmosphere, but it will also help to diversify incomes, reduce poverty levels and increase local biodiversity.
United States
In the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, a carbon project has been established to restore degraded agricultural lands back to their original and highly beneficial forest ecosystem. The project is designed to incentivize landowners to replant and permanently maintain forests due to financial incentives such as carbon credit sales, wood products and recreational/conservation services.
By design, this project expedites tree growth, accelerates CO2 sequestration, improves tree quality and survivability, and establishes quality wildlife habitats. Together with partners, our support of this project will have lasting positive impacts on the forests, surrounding communities and our global climate.
One of the greatest forces of change since the digital revolution is here. See the ways we’re sustainably driving new value and growth.
exploreNet-zero by 2025
Our goal is to achieve net-zero emissions by the end of 2025
Powering change
97% renewable electricity in our locations toward our goal of 100% by the end of 2023
Toward less carbon, naturally
Plan to remove 13 million+ metric tons of CO2 using nature-based carbon removals over the next 20 years
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Championing human rights
Committed to supporting and respecting internationally proclaimed human rights
Leveraging our scale
Our relationships with our suppliers help us amplify our human rights commitment
Living wage
We strongly encourage our suppliers to pay a living wage (or higher) to people who provide services directly to our company and/or our clients
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Better together
Requiring 90% of our key suppliers to disclose their emissions targets by 2025
Supplier diversity
Graduated 217 suppliers from our Global Diverse Supplier Development Program
Buying better
3,000+ supplier sustainability assessments
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15 years of recognition
On Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies list since 2008
Ethical standards
98% of our people completed Ethics & Compliance training in fiscal 2022
Anticorruption
Clear policies for our people, partners and intermediaries
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Net-zero know-how
CO2 reduction solutions tailored for clients across industries
Added value
Embedding sustainability into every stage of the value chain
ESG embedded
Shaping client strategies to create value with sustainability
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Skills to succeed
1.6M+ people worldwide equipped with the skills to make improvements to their lives
Partnering to welcome refugees
Over $4 million in pro bono consulting services and cash donations and nearly 50,000 job openings shared with nonprofit Welcome.US
Set to start up
Partnering with YBI to train an estimated 240,000 young entrepreneurs to start, grow and sustain businesses
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Making the best even better – investing and caring for our 721,000 people. Learn how we’re supporting our talent and advancing careers globally.
exploreLifelong learners
$1.1 billion invested in continuous learning and professional development
40+ million training hours
27% increase in training time since last year
100% pay equity
Dollar-for-dollar pay equity for men and women in every country where we operate and by race and ethnicity in locations where we currently have the data available to use for this purpose—U.S., U.K., South Africa
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One of the world’s best
FORTUNE and Great Place to Work® World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2022
On the side of well-being
Thousands of our people serve as Mental Health Allies supporting and helping colleagues
Ukraine crisis response
For our people and their impacted extended families in Ukraine and the region
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Opening doors in North America
More than 20% of FY22 entry-level hires were apprentices
U.K. growth in apprenticeships
Nearly 200 apprentices in the program in FY22, a 93% increase in participation over the prior year
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Embedding I&D
in everything we do
We expect leaders at all levels to help create and sustain a culture of equality where everyone can achieve their professional and personal aspirations.
As a business priority, inclusion and diversity at Accenture starts at the top with our Chair and CEO and our Board of Directors.
Our Board demonstrates this commitment with 56% of our director nominees racially and ethnically diverse* and 56% women, including our Chair and CEO Julie Sweet.
Building belonging
We offer a wide variety of resources to support our people and to increase understanding of our inclusive culture. For instance,
“Thriving Together: Building Resilience & Belonging,” a behavior change program focused on building resilience and belonging, has been completed by more than 71,000 of our people in FY22.
Inclusion by design
Working to eliminate discrimination in employment and applying our principle of meritocracy when we make decisions about how our people advance are fundamental parts of our commitment. We are building inclusion into how we work and how we deliver value to our clients by creating and sustaining a company where:
We embed inclusion into the fabric
of our organization and client work
through our work on accessibility, Responsible Artificial Intelligence and inclusive design.
Our leaders are role models for inclusive behavior.
Our people are equipped to be active allies and lead change.
Our policies, practices and processes across the employee life cycle aim to
create a level playing field for equal opportunities.
*For the purposes of this report, racial and ethnic diversity of our directors is based on self-reported EEO-1 categories. Please see our 2022 Proxy Statement for further information.