WorldClimate
We’ve set a net zero commitment. We’re transforming our business. And we’re empowering our people to help create a better future.
This is our plan.
Our workplace
The buildings we work in, the products we use. It all adds up. We’re changing the way we run things to reduce our carbon footprint and operate more sustainably.
Real estate
Refurbishments
We’ve taken the learnings from our award-winning sustainable offices, The Edge in Amsterdam and 1 New Street Square in London and created a best practice hub to enable our real estate teams to embed sustainability and wellbeing considerations in all future office refurbishments.
Locations
We’re optimising the size and location of our workspaces to better support our hybrid operating model. To make sure we don’t push our emissions elsewhere, we’ll also put measures in place to help our colleagues reduce the carbon impact of working from home.
Operations
We’ll continue to reduce our utilities use, improving our energy and water efficiency by another 25% through operational enhancements and investment. We’ll also make sure this happens in parallel with our work to optimise the environmental conditions in our workspaces, as it’s key they remain healthy and productive for our colleagues.
Renewable electricity
Since 2020, we have procured 100% renewable electricity across our estate and will continue to do so. Looking forward, we’ll support the creation of new renewables capacity, install on-site renewables where practical and phase out our gas heating systems.
Waste reduction
We’ll reduce the amount of waste we produce by an additional 50% per person and minimise the creation of plastic, food and single-use waste through our operations and hosted events.
Resource efficiency
We’ll increase our recycling rates to over 75% and send zero waste to landfill. We’ll also support the circular economy by prioritising suppliers that use less virgin materials in their products and have designed them to be repurposed or recycled at end-of-life.
Our supply chain
Emissions within our supply chain account for around 70% of our carbon footprint. Working with our suppliers to positively affect change is one of the most impactful ways we can make a difference.
Suppliers
At least 67% of our global supply chain will have set 1.5oC aligned, science-based carbon reduction targets by 2025. To deliver on this commitment we will encourage our key suppliers to accurately measure and publicly report their carbon emissions, and prioritise those that have set an approved science-based target and can demonstrate progress.
Products & services
Our sustainability impacts go beyond carbon. We’re mapping environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks across our supply chain so we can incentivise responsible practices when we purchase products and services.
We also appreciate the critical importance of nature and will identify how we put pressure on nature as a first step to halting and reversing biodiversity loss within our value chain.
Our way of working
With over 75,000 people working across Deloitte North and South Europe, reimagining the way we deliver our services – from the technology we use to how we get from A to B – is an essential part of our transformation.
Sustainable delivery
We want working sustainably to be the default way of doing business with Deloitte.
That’s why we’re introducing a Sustainable Delivery Clause, our commitment to work hand in hand with clients to find more sustainable ways of working. From prioritising virtual collaboration, to choosing the most sustainable ways to travel when meeting in person for the moments that really matter.
We believe that collectively we can drive positive change. That’s why we’re changing how we do business.
Business travel
We’ll reduce our travel emissions by 50% per person by using our sustainable delivery framework to optimise how we deliver international projects. We’ll also invest further in tools that will enable seamless, virtual collaboration with our clients and colleagues.
IT
We’ll minimise our digital footprint by placing sustainability requirements into major IT contracts that reduce the impact of a product’s manufacture, use or disposal. We’re also accelerating our consolidation of physical data centres and migrating services to the cloud.
Personal travel
We’re transforming our car fleet to become fully electric and are encouraging our colleagues to use low-carbon mobility options where available.
Net zero is our long-term objective. This will require us to reduce our emissions as fast as we can, in line with the SBTI Corporate Net-Zero Standard.
While we decarbonise our business, we will support ‘beyond value chain mitigation’ through a selection of programmes ranging from the purchase of carbon credits generated by projects aligned with our Purpose agenda to enabling or investing in activities that accelerate societal decarbonisation.
Our people
Our people care about climate change and want to be part of the solution. That’s why we’re empowering each and every one of them to do exactly that.
Leadership
We understand that meaningful change takes dedicated leadership and accountability. Our strategy considers the climate-related risks and opportunities facing our business, the programme is sponsored by our Board and Executive, and our COO group are responsible for its success.
Engagement
Our firm is full of people who are passionate about protecting the planet. To harness this energy we are empowering our network of climate champions to advocate the importance of climate action, adopt new ways of working and hold us to account. We’re using a personal carbon tracking tool to educate our people on the environmental impacts of everyday actions and help them take steps to reduce their own footprint.
Training
We’re raising our colleagues’ awareness of the impacts of climate change and how the net zero transition will benefit the global economy, such as via our global WorldClimate learning. We’re also sharing regular sustainability-related insights across our communications channels, so our stakeholders better understand how to take action.
Culture
Every aspect of our people experience will reinforce the importance of climate action, from updating roles and responsibilities to include ESG metrics, to recognising colleagues for their contribution to our sustainability agenda and linking performance to ESG.
We’re also working with our pension providers where regulation allows, because we want everyone to have the opportunity to invest in ESG-tilted funds and help finance the net zero transition.
Ecosystems
No person or organisation can solve the climate crisis alone. We are using our networks and our skills to catalyse cross-sector collaborations through which we can accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon future.
Accelerate innovation
Innovation is key to solving the climate crisis. We help identify and support game-changing environmental innovations, such as through our role as a Global Alliance Member of The Earthshot Prize, the most prestigious environmental prize in history.
Scale solutions
We are developing partnerships that allow us to activate investment and influence policy in favour of the climate and nature solutions required for societal decarbonisation.
Build skills
To transition to a regenerative economy, every sector needs to develop new technical skills. We are developing alliances to enable us to help identify these gaps and create long-term strategies to fill them.
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