Location
Global
Company size
721000
Industry
Target
Accenture, commits to becoming Net Zero by 2025, from its 2016 baseline year.
Accenture is a multinational professional services company specializing in IT services and consulting. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, it operates in over 200 cities across 120 countries. As of 2022, it employs more than 624,000 people globally. Accenture's prominent subsidiaries include Droga5, IMJ Corporation, and Avanade, a joint venture with Microsoft. The company's top operational regions are North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.
Climate smart travel decisions. We are equipping our people to make climate smart travel decisions. Our people have access to an aviation carbon calculator, which highlights actual emissions differences between flights to inform decisions at the time of booking.
When travel is necessary, we promote more carbon efficient alternatives, such as high-speed train in certain geographies. We continue to use technology to facilitate more cost and carbon-efficient delivery for our clients and our business and have implemented an internal carbon price on air travel to encourage climate smart travel decisions.
Renewable electricity. We are increasing the use of renewable electricity in our offices as part of our participation in RE100, a global corporate renewable energy initiative bringing together hundreds of large and ambitious businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity. As we do not own our office buildings and procure most of our energy from the grid, we increase our renewable electricity through renewable electricity contracts (purchased from the grid or local renewable energy markets).
We strive to purchase renewable electricity equivalent to the amount of electricity we use to power our global operations on an annual basis, which reduces our reported carbon emissions from electricity usage. As we purchase more renewable electricity, we also support the generation of more renewable sources of electricity. Our goal is to achieve 100% renewable electricity in our offices globally by 2023.
In September 2022, we announced that we exceeded 85% renewable electricity in fiscal year 2022.
Engaging our suppliers. We are working with our suppliers to reduce our Scope 3 emissions. Our goal is that 90% of our key suppliers disclose their environmental targets and actions being taken to reduce emissions by 2025.
We are making progress, with approximately 60% reporting both as of December 2021. Additionally, our recently deployed Supplier Sustainable Procurement Hub will provide greater transparency about direct supplier ESG performance and practices at the point of buyer selection and onboarding, also giving us greater opportunity for engagement.
