Our corporate sustainability strategy - building a better blueprint for business

We believe that we have a responsibility to help create a sustainable future and make our world a better place. We look to exhibit responsible behaviour in everything we do, as well as engaging with our stakeholders to have a positive impact in the places where we live and work.

We’ve refreshed our sustainability strategy this year (see framework below). This supports our vision to do the right thing for our clients, our people, our communities and the environment and it complements our sustainability materiality matrix.

It’s founded on the guiding principles of upholding high professional standards, being transparent, trusted and fair, fostering a culture of partnership and collaboration, valuing the longer term consequences of our decisions, and leading by example to create a more sustainable future for everyone.

It’s part of our commitment to build a blueprint for better business.

Being a catalyst for change: we’re using our skills, voice, and relationships to work with others and influence activities that make a difference and create positive change in the world around us.

• We’re helping organisations across the globe to reduce risk, seize opportunity and become more sustainable through the many services that we provide every day
• We’re investing in innovation that will transform the way organisations operate - new standards to underpin capital markets, new ways of measuring environmental and social value and new ways of understanding and building trust, amongst others.

Doing the right thing: we have an active agenda on issues that are central to responsible business and create value for our stakeholders. 

• We create value for our clients and our owners by maintaining and continuously enhancing the quality of our work, encouraging a culture of integrity and high standards for ethics, independence and information security.
• We create value for our people and our clients by promoting diversity, fostering a culture of inclusion and supporting a healthy work-life balance. This helps us attract and retain the best talent, too.
• We create value in our local communities by using our people’s time, skills and experience to make a lasting difference. It also inspires and engages our people, enriching their careers and skills, and enhancing retention. 
• We create value by understanding and reducing our impact on the environment. Our stewardship and innovation in this area also enhances our standing.
• We collaborate with our suppliers to minimise our environmental impacts and ensure that our fair business principles are upheld. This makes us an attractive business partner.

We’ve consciously decided to embed sustainability in our business and each part of the business champions our sustainability goals alongside their other business objectives. As a knowledge-based organisation we also feel we have a significant contribution to make by sharing our insight widely with clients and other stakeholders. One part of this is our ‘Corporate Sustainability Lessons Learned’ documents. You can read these and the many  policies that help embed sustainability in our download centre.

Sustainability strategy framework