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Becoming a sustainability leader means adhering to the highest ESG standards while maintaining performance at scale.

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A more sustainable world for all

We believe every business must be a sustainable business, as customers, employees, partners, regulators and communities demand more progress and greater transparency.

In addition to advancing our own net-zero emissions and other environmental goals, we help our clients embed sustainability across their businesses, and innovate with our people and partners to support communities in crisis, including providing aid and opportunities to refugees.

Responsible Company

We are dedicated to leading by example and making a difference through climate action, caring for our people, accelerating equality for all and conducting our business with the utmost integrity.

We are committed to environmental sustainability in how we operate our business, and we hold ourselves accountable to clear and measurable objectives. Our ambitious environmental goals address climate, waste and water.

 

Since beginning our environmental journey in 2007, we have continually set challenging goals in alignment with climate science, but we cannot do it alone. We are dedicated to enabling global cooperation among our people, our clients, our suppliers and our partners to achieve a low-carbon future. Together, we can help to transform our global economy into a more sustainable marketplace.

 

Learn more about our commitment to the environment and our Eco Action initiatives.

We are a talent and innovation led organization of 774,000 exceptional people working together across the world to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity.

Creating 360° value across our business not only improves our competitiveness and drives returns for shareholders—it also helps us attract, inspire and retain the best people. We invest in our people and support them with care, compassion and continuous opportunities to learn, grow their skills and advance their careers.

Learn more about how we are investing in and caring for our people.

The size and scale of our supply chain affords us the opportunity to drive a culture of responsible buying.

As we continue to grow as a company, we recognize our responsibility to deliver long-term value to society through our clients, suppliers and communities.

Learn more about how we deliver value across the supply chain.

Our commitment to ethics, human rights and strong corporate governance is a key driver of our business strategy and is essential to safeguarding our people, clients, brand and financial performance. It is the foundation on which we build trust.

Our clear corporate governance structure and Ethics & Compliance program—grounded in our core values and Code of Business Ethics (COBE)—guide our strategic business decisions and actions as we strive to foster a culture of integrity, transparency, inclusivity and respect for all people.

We believe a shared ethical culture is critical to our growth in a competitive marketplace. Our clients involve us in some of the most sensitive areas of their business, in part because of our integrity and commitment to the highest ethical standards, as evidenced by our long-term client relationships around the world. Of our top 100 clients, 99 have been our partners for more than 10 years.

Learn more about our commitment to ethics and governance.

Responsible Citizen

We work to create lasting impact by focusing on skilling for technology careers, innovating for society, helping communities in crisis and refugees, and offering meaningful volunteering, participation and innovation opportunities for our people.

Through our global Skills to Succeed initiative, we collaborate with our partners to prepare people for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. In fiscal 2022, we equipped more than 1.6 million people worldwide with the skills to make substantive improvements to their lives, for a total of more than 7.5 million since 2009.

 

As a global professional services company, we already are realizing a future in which we see how critical technology skills are necessary for jobs and careers. And we believe we have a responsibility to skill—and re-skill—people in our communities to be ready for the changes we are involved in creating, and their impact on jobs, careers and the workplace. This responsibility also contributes to companies’ ability to find and nurture diverse talent and tomorrow’s innovators. Learn more.

Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) helps our clients—including leading NGOs, private foundations, public donor agencies and the private sector—address society's most critical challenges.  Specifically, through its Inclusive Business offering, ADP collaborates with private sector clients to drive sustainable impact at scale to support their environmental, social and governance goals.

 

For 20 years, ADP has led diverse work fostering partnerships, collective impact and social equity to progress the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) improving lives around the world. Key focus areas include agriculture; climate and environment; energy; gender, inclusion and diversity; health and nutrition; humanitarian aid and refugees; inclusive financial services and products; and access to quality education and sustainable livelihoods.  In fiscal 2022 ADP led more than 270 engagements in approximately 80 countries. Learn more.

We’re bringing together social and technology innovators, using exponential technologies to build a more inclusive and sustainable world. Read more.

Innovation is at the heart of how we serve our clients, and how we engage our people on sustainability issues.

 

With the belief that anyone can be a social innovator, we work with our clients and ecosystem partners to harness and accelerate innovative ideas with us and nurture the next generation of innovators.

 

More than 15,000 Accenture people participated in our Social Innovators initiative, which includes the Sustainability Innovation Challenge, the Social Innovators Accelerator program and Social Innovation Learning opportunities. Learn more.

We offer many ways to get involved, including local and global volunteering opportunities, both virtual and in person, in addition to wider opportunities to act for social and environmental impact.

 

During the second half of 2022, our volunteering program progressively included in-person events in most countries, while continuing to offer virtual volunteering. This allowed our people more options to continue making a positive impact helping our nonprofit partners. Learn more.

We continue to step up to support those most impacted by the pandemic. Read more.

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Championing the SDGs

To drive change for our clients, and for our business, we work across a spectrum of environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities—and help all our stakeholders do the same—contributing to the creation of a more sustainable world for all.

In addition, Accenture has been a United Nations (UN) Global Compact (UNGC) signatory since 2008, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continue to provide us with a powerful framework for our actions, as well as those we take with our ecosystem partners, clients, suppliers and others in our sphere of influence. We know that our efforts to advance our most relevant SDGs can deliver benefits for multiple related SDGs, enabling us to amplify outcomes for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

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We are working to embed sustainability into everything we do, with everyone we work with, to create business value and sustainable impact.