Our green journey

We are committed to pursuing environmental excellence, for the benefit of our firm, our clients, our people and the wider society.

In 2011, we set ourselves a series of targets for reducing our environmental impacts and we have continued to deliver against these during FY14. This year, we reduced our absolute carbon emissions by an additional 2 percent. With our carbon footprint down by 11 percent per FTE we are on track to reaching our target of a 35 percent reduction by 2021.

  • The transformation of our Edinburgh office to a more modern, sustainable space is on track to receive a SKA Gold accreditation for its re-design. Upgrades throughout the building have resulted in energy savings, including an 18 percent reduction in our electricity consumption compared to FY13.

We are continuing to manage down the environmental impact of our business travel. Emissions from travel fell 5 percent with air travel down 9 percent. Maintaining this strong performance is important to us and, through our Agile Working programme and a push to use video-conferencing and online collaboration tools to deliver low-carbon engagements, we are well-placed to continue to decouple our business growth from our environmental impact.

Our paper consumption continues to fall dramatically (14% this year) as a result of our secure printing implementation and awareness campaigns. We have now also attained our paper reduction target, driving it down by 31% per FTE since 2011. This performance has also supported a 7% per FTE reduction in our total waste production this year.

Case study

Hereford & Worcester PFI: providing energy for up to 20,000 homes

Some called this the impossible project but you helped make it possible.

Sean Pearce, CFO for Worcestershire Council

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