Responsible Business

With our offices accounting for a significant proportion of our carbon footprint, we are committed to the highest levels of sustainability in our buildings, and have developed Sustainable Office Design Principles that positively impact our people and the environment. This framework has enabled us to obtain sustainability certification in 22 of our offices, equivalent to over 65% of our entire footprint. Our framework has been developed based on existing best-practice design frameworks and research, including:

We are committed to 100% renewable energy in all of our main buildings by 2025, and are already using 100% renewable energy in our London office, and our German offices. Where it is not possible to do this (usually where we are in multi-tenancy building), we will look to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates to offset our energy consumption.

As a global organization, travel is part of our business and we recognize that our travel generates CO₂ emissions and impacts the environment. To address this, we are creating a series of new management processes to apply globally across our organization with our travel agencies and major travel vendors. The intention is to capture our impact and to provide options for each traveler in our firm with the ability to make smarter, environmentally conscious decisions to support the SDGs.

We are in the process of creating a series of new procurement and supply chain processes and policies to apply consistently across our firm globally.

This includes developing a new and robust procurement organizational program to source and manage all the third parties that supply our firm globally. The policies align with the SDGs.

Each of our offices around the world has a dedicated Sustainability Steward who is a member of the operations team. The Sustainability Stewards are responsible for collecting data, both for reporting requirements and to inform the changes we need to make. They also ensure that our procurement processes prioritize environmentally-friendly products, services, and suppliers.