Together with our partners, we help our clients reinvent their businesses at scale, creating business value and sustainable impact for all stakeholders.
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.
At the mid-point to Net Zero 2030, acceleration through partnerships (SDG 17) is essential. Learn how Accenture collaborates to help people and planet.
Who we are partnering with
The World’s To Do List
Global Citizen
Fighting hunger and helping refugees
Transforming education
Our actions
Accenture is committed to helping the world achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We believe sustainability is one of five key forces that will drive business in the next decade, delivered through the SDG framework.
Since 2010, we’ve partnered with the UN on an annual CEO survey, which has shaped understanding of the role of business in sustainability. Early findings from our newest survey show that CEOs think geopolitical events are limiting progress on the SDGs.
Accelerating effort will require collaboration across industries, geographies, public/private sector and civil society—which is why UNGA Week is so important.
We also work with institutions such as World Economic Forum, academics like MIT and Oxford University, technology vendors (including SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce) and clients like Schneider Electric and Johnson Controls.
Plus, Accenture Development Partnerships connects our people and work with non-governmental organizations such as UNICEF.
Accenture is proud to support a major awareness campaign for the SDGs, joining a group of companies committed to their rapid advancement.
The World’s To Do List is led by Project Everyone, an UN-appointed non-profit promoting the global goals. The aim of the campaign is to unite each of the 17 goals, setting a clear reminder that there is a plan to fix the world's problems; we just need to take action.
As a member, Accenture is collaborating through UNGA Week at Goals House with other leading brands and organizations to take positive actions and accelerate toward the goals.
Global Citizen is an organization committed to connecting citizens, artists, corporate leaders and philanthropists to take action to defeat poverty, demand equity and defend the planet.
As a partner at the festival in 2021, Accenture announced a major commitment to nature-based carbon removal projects around the world. Over the next 20 years, these projects are expected to remove an estimated 13+ million metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
In 2022, we’re extending our partnership with Global Citizen into a yearlong sponsorship with a focus on how Accenture partners with clients to solve the toughest sustainability challenges through the Accenture Sustainability Innovation Challenge. Read more here.
Accenture is working with Business Fights Poverty, a business-led collaboration network focused on social impact. Our program will look at large-scale food fortification, helping ensure people receive enough micronutrients to prevent malnutrition.
Supporting refugees globally
Accenture partners with local and global organizations, such as UNHCR, to help individuals and families who need to leave their home countries. We help them as they establish new lives, gain meaningful employment and start businesses. Learn more.
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At Accenture, we are passionate about education for positive change. This includes empowering the next generation with the mindsets, skills and tools to build a sustainable future.
Our global Sustainability Education & Action initiative, initiated at COP26, is taking big steps to make a real difference in three key areas:
We sponsor T4 Education to run the World’s Best School Environment Prize, providing cash and pro-bono support to unleash the best environmental practices from schools around the world and share these across education networks.
Through the Accenture Sustainability Innovation Challenge, we run a Future of Climate Action Education challenge jointly with Salesforce. The winning team is funded to develop their concept through our Social Innovators Accelerator.
Accenture’s long-running partnership with Save The Children has helped improve the lives of 185,000 young people through skills initiatives. A new global grant of $4.8m will support 70,000 more to find work, start their own business or continue education.
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Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17) allows businesses and society to make geometric progress toward the SDG goals. Examples of our collaborative actions with some of our ecosystem partners include:
UN Global Compact (UNGC)
Accenture works closely with the UNGC, the UN’s voluntary initiative for business based on sustainability principles and commitments.
SDG Ambition
With the UNGC, SAP and 3M, we run SDG Ambition, a program guiding 1000+ companies from 80 countries in setting ambitious targets toward the SDGs.
Salesforce
Accenture and Salesforce are bringing sustainability to the front office, providing leaders with visibility into environmental, social and governance data. Learn more.
Microsoft
Accenture expanded its partnership with Microsoft and Avanade to help organizations tackle their greatest sustainability challenges, accelerating the transition to net zero. View the press release.
Johnson Controls
This case study shows how Accenture is building intelligence-based capabilities alongside Johnson Controls to address buildings and operations sustainability.
Schneider Electric
Accenture has a longstanding relationship with Schneider Electric with a focus on energy efficiency, climate journey and ESG tracking.
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Who we are partnering with
The World’s To Do List
Global Citizen
Fighting hunger and helping refugees
Transforming education
Our actions
"Today’s rapid acceleration to digital presents us with a breakthrough opportunity to create a more sustainable future."
— JULIE SWEET, Chair & CEO
UNGC-Accenture CEO Study on Sustainability
Climate leadership in the eleventh hour
Our latest study on Sustainability shares opportunities and challenges for leaders to address the climate crisis.
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:
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.
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In the spotlight
Accenture Named a Leader in Sustainability Enablement Technology Services by Everest Group
Accenture has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural “Sustainability Enablement Technology Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022” report, by industry analyst firm Everest Group. Accenture is an overall leader and ranked highest in the Vision & Capability dimension within the assessment that detailed profiles of 14 service providers and the integrated capabilities that they offer in the sustainability services ecosystem.
The report highlights Accenture’s comprehensive Sustainability Services offering, including capabilities for net zero transitions, sustainable value chain, sustainable technology, environmental, social and governance (ESG) measurement, analytics and performance, sustainable leadership and organization, and sustainable customer experience and brand. From strategy to execution, Accenture delivers business transformation at scale to help clients achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and tackle climate change.
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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"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
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.
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.
Discover sustainability stories from our leading bloggers. From strategy and industry perspectives to enabling technologies, this is the place where new ideas come alive.
Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade launch a new partnership aimed at delivering solutions enabling organizations to address their key sustainability challenges.
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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