Corporate Sustainability

"Sustainability is all about best practice. It is about managing our organization with an eye to the future and dealing with our people and resources fairly and positively. Sustainability has been very important to our leadership team and it will continue to be in the future. We track our progress and constantly look for ways to improve. And through that process, we will be the best company that we can be."

Lance Uggla, Chairman and CEO

Corporate sustainability underpins our entire organisation as a philosophy of best business practices and doesn't just include philanthropy, environmental concerns and our communities; it includes the way we operate from our board to our approach to learning and development, from how we think about customers to our approach to cyber security. We focus on areas most meaningful to our business while tracking our progress within established reporting frameworks.

We had numerous accomplishments in 2019 including tremendous engagement in our communities with employees contributing more than 57,000 volunteer hours in local sustainability projects (surpassing our company goal of 55,000 hours) and raising more than $450,000 for St. Baldrick’s in one of our largest global fundraiser to date. For diversity and inclusion, we established an inclusion council accountable for the delivery of our commitments, created a network of inclusion champions around the globe, established a Unity Week event at our major offices, and achieved Best Place to Work for LGBTQ in both 2019 and 2020. And as we transition to 100% renewable energy and carbon neutrality, we purchased carbon offsets to offset our 2017 and 2018 footprints with respect to office energy usage and business air travel. In 2020 we will offset our 2019 carbon footprint and also will be 100% renewable for our office electricity through the purchase of energy attribute certificates. On the product side, we launched the first global index for carbon credits and further developed our ESG reporting repository.