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SUSTAINABILITY

We believe every business must be a sustainable business

We help our clients advance their environmental, social and governance goals by connecting sustainability to their transformations; operate our business with a strong commitment to the environment, ethics and human rights; and work to create value in communities around the world.

On track

We are on track to achieve our 2025 carbon removal goal and we set new goals for the future

89%

of our key suppliers* have disclosed emissions targets

~5M

people equipped with skills toward employment or entrepreneurship

*Key suppliers are defined as vendors that represent a significant portion of our 2019 Scope 3 emissions.

Community impact

We invest in our communities to help them thrive, and we continue making substantial impacts in the places around the world where we work and live. We do this through collaborating with our clients, ecosystem and nonprofit partners and also empowering our people to make a difference.

Skills to Succeed

For more than a decade, our Skills to Succeed initiative has equipped people with skills as enablers in preparing for future employment or entrepreneurship opportunities.

In fiscal 2024, programs supported by Skills to Succeed reported that approximately 5 million people worldwide benefited from this initiative.

Skills to Succeed Academy is a free, immersive online learning program to help people build skills and confidence to succeed in the workplace.

In fiscal 2024, the Skills to Succeed Academy skilled 86,000+ people globally, in collaboration with our partners.

Preparing for skills of the future

UNICEF's Generation Unlimited

In collaboration with UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited, we empower underserved youth in India and Brazil with future-relevant skills through the Passport to Earning (P2E) prunogram. Accenture's financial and in-kind contributions in collaboration with other partners have led to nearly 1.8 million young people reported in fiscal 2024 as being skilled in and receiving certifications for financial literacy and digital productivity.
Read more about our collaboration.

Save the Children

Through the Equip Today to Thrive Tomorrow program, Save the Children has equipped young people across five countries with future-ready skills in fiscal 2024. We are also supporting young people through the Youth Leaders for a Sustainable Future initiative, empowering them to secure jobs, start businesses or advance to higher education. Collectively, through these two programs, we have equipped more than 100,000 young people with skills as reported in fiscal 2024.

Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide

We partnered with JA Worldwide to help more than 1.2 million young people across 19 countries gain the skills, experience and confidence to prepare for future job and entrepreneurship opportunities. This year we also collaborated alongside Microsoft and Avanade to bring AI and sustainability learning to young people around the word.

Regenerative AI

In September 2024, we committed to help tackle the United Kingdom’s digital inclusion gap with a new initiative, Regenerative AI, that will empower over a million people in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities across the U.K. to build their AI skills.
Learn more in the news release.

Supporting entrepreneurs

Youth Business International (YBI) - Green and social entrepreneurship

Our current work with YBI focuses on enabling youth entrepreneurs. In fiscal 2024 this partnership helped skill more than 180,000 youth. Also in 2024, we expanded our support of YBI with a new two-year grant which aims to skill more than 600,000 youth, enabling more than 200,000 to start a new business or grow an existing business.

Accenture Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

We are empowering rural women entrepreneurs in India through the Institute’s WeACT program. The program helps participants harness technology and digital platforms to expand their market reach and boost revenue. In fiscal 2024, 4,000 new members joined WeACT.

Pathways to jobs

Internships

In the United States, our Skills to Succeed internship and Learning to Lead programs provide early career exposure and work experience to high school and college-aged individuals through summer and year-round internships. This year, approximately 900 interns participated.

See how we are creating positive change for our communities and our people.

Supporting refugees

Welcome.US

Accenture is partnering with Welcome.US to accelerate and scale private sector support for welcoming legal newcomers in the United States.

Our Chair and CEO, Julie Sweet, co-chairs the Welcome.US CEO Council, a network of 40 companies working to accelerate and scale private sector support for people seeking refuge.

Our work in Europe 

As part of a pan-European response towards skilling and positioning refugees for meaningful work, we are partnering with organizations across Europe to position refugee job seekers for success.

As a member of the Tent Partnership for Refugees, we are supporting hiring and skilling of 16,000 refugee job seekers in Europe, including Ukrainian women, by June 2026. Our work with YMCA Europe has provided more than 14,000 Ukrainian refugees with holistic support and skills in 2024.

We have also supported the launch of the BecomingX Ukraine online learning platform, which provides career advice, digital skills and personal development courses to help Ukrainians realize their potential, gain meaningful employment and start their own businesses.

People & Planet

To help empower and inspire young people to address pressing social and environmental challenges, we have scaled our action-oriented community impact program, Sustainability Education & Action, to equip them with the mindsets, skills and tools to effectively contribute to a more sustainable future.

Sustainability Competencies Report

With our support, World´s Largest Lesson (an initiative of Project Everyone) has developed a Sustainability Competencies Report that outlines the essential skills and mindsets young people need to take action on sustainability issues in both their communities and future work.

Green Rising digital program

The Green Rising digital program, which we support in collaboration with Goodwall, UNICEF's Generation Unlimited and SAP, has successfully engaged more than 100,000 young people in 112 countries—empowering them to develop skills for the green economy while completing measurable impact tasks through #ClimateAction challenges.

GROW2CEO

We collaborated with GIY (Grow it Yourself) on a food growing challenge for more than 10,000 secondary school students with the aim of creating the next generation of sustainability leaders to help transform Ireland´s food system. Participating students develop skills and are empowered to become agents of change for a more sustainable world.

Supporting youth-led innovation

We support youth-led innovation through two key partnerships.

  • UNICEF Generation Unlimited's imaGen Ventures: In fiscal 2024, we supported approximately 20,000 innovators from around the globe through a sustainability innovation challenge. The 10 winning teams received grants to accelerate their impact, along with mentorship from Accenture people offering expertise in areas such as AI and the circular economy.
  • World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Innovation Prize: We helped launch this initiative, alongside the Global Alliance for YOUth, to support young leaders under 30 in creating innovative projects addressing the needs of their communities. The 15 winning projects received funding and mentorship to deliver the next stage of impact to their communities.

People with Purpose

We offer a variety of ways for our people to act for social and environmental impact, including a wide range of local and global volunteering opportunities.

In fiscal 2024, we launched Season of Impact, a holistic global participation campaign. We engaged our people globally in volunteering, eco action, social innovation and giving, supporting both social and environmental causes.

81,000+

of our people participated in Season of Impact

75,000

hours of service for social and environmental causes

400+

unique activities were held across our local offices and online

Volunteering in our communities

Beach clean-ups

  • In the Philippines, nearly 340 Accenture volunteers collaborated with the Pawikan Conservation Center for a large-scale beach clean-up, helping to raise awareness about the preservation and propagation of endangered marine turtles.
  • In October 2024, Accenture volunteers partnered with 4ocean to remove trash from a beach in the United States, coupled with education on the importance of preserving marine ecosystems.

Mentoring teens

Through a partnership with the Australian Business and Community Network, more than 170 Accenture mentors supported students by sharing their career journeys and experiences. Program sessions included topics such as personal brand, interview techniques and developing communication and teamwork skills.

Our people as social innovators

Through our social innovation programs, our people have opportunities to work with our clients and ecosystem partners to develop and accelerate fresh ideas.

Sustainability Innovation Challenge

Our Sustainability Innovation Challenge engaged our people on the key themes of preserving our past, responding to our present and reimagining our future. 

Finalist teams' innovations include:

  • Winner: Second Chance - connects formerly incarcerated individuals with job opportunities to reduce recidivism.
  • Runner-up: Circular Asset Indexing Toolkit - creates a circular economy of reusable components for large companies.
  • Runner-up: TrashIT - manages e-waste in India through a circular economy model.

Social Innovators Accelerator

The Social Innovators Accelerator provides funding and coaching for projects that have the potential to deliver clear social and environmental impacts. In fiscal 2024, 22 projects received funding to progress solutions with a positive environmental or social objective.

A bar chart showing Accenture's contributions across four categories: cash, in-kind (including development partnerships and pro bono consulting), time (paid volunteering), and Accenture Foundations contributions. Notably, in-kind contributions represent the largest portion for each year. The chart suggests a trend of increasing contributions, particularly in in-kind support.
A bar chart showing Accenture's contributions across four categories: cash, in-kind (including development partnerships and pro bono consulting), time (paid volunteering), and Accenture Foundations contributions. Notably, in-kind contributions represent the largest portion for each year. The chart suggests a trend of increasing contributions, particularly in in-kind support.
A table titled "Accenture Contribution by Type" displaying the breakdown of Accenture's contributions in US dollars (in thousands) for the years 2023, 2022, and 2021. Contributions are categorized as Cash, In-Kind, Time, Total Accenture Contributions, Accenture Foundation Contributions, and Total Accenture and Accenture Foundation Contributions.
A table titled "Accenture Contribution by Type" displaying the breakdown of Accenture's contributions in US dollars (in thousands) for the years 2023, 2022, and 2021. Contributions are categorized as Cash, In-Kind, Time, Total Accenture Contributions, Accenture Foundation Contributions, and Total Accenture and Accenture Foundation Contributions.

$149,993 (in thousands)

 

  • Total Accenture and Accenture Foundations Contributions in fiscal 2024    
A table showing Accenture contributions by region for 2021, 2022, and 2023 in thousands of US dollars.
A table showing Accenture contributions by region for 2021, 2022, and 2023 in thousands of US dollars.

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The information provided on this site reflects our goals, progress and performance across our global operations during fiscal 2024 
(ended August 31, 2024), unless otherwise noted.