EARTH DAY
WHAT ELSE IS BDO DOING?
BDO UK has signed up to the United Nations Global Compact Agreement Our latest Carbon Report provides a comprehensive view of our performance and action on environmental matters for our financial year ending 30 June 2020 – eight months of which was pre-C-19 and included a sizeable increase in our headcount. Highlights include: – We reduced our total emissions (-5%) and our emissions intensity per FTE (-28%) – We introduced a real-time sustainability reporting platform to help us track and reduce our energy consumption – We implemented schemes with local contractors to reduce the volume of waste going to landfill and our use of plastic packaging – More than half our offices are rated as either very good or higher – with six offices rated ‘excellent’ – according to independent sustainability consultants (known as our BREEAM rating) – We continue to maintain an important accreditation that recognises our ongoing commitment to reducing our impacts (known as ISO:14001:2015 Environmental Management System). As we did for the first time last year, we will continue to offset our carbon as a firm through ClimateCare’s Gyapa cookstove project, working with independent sustainability consultant, Avieco. This means that BDO in the UK will remain carbon-neutral
Our carbon commitments and offsetting have also unlocked another important milestone. We are now able to declare that all of our offices are a carbon-neutral environment. This is because we have achieved a Carbon Neutrality accreditation – known as PAS 2060 Specification – because of our demonstration of carbon neutrality and our implementation of effective climate change mitigation measures We review supplier contracts for their environment and sustainability commitments Where we have full responsibility for utilities in an office location (e.g. sole tenant in a building), we have switched to green tariffs for our energy To support teams trying to reduce travel, we’ll keep investing in With our new travel booking system, Egencia, we’ve made sure that you can see your carbon footprint for air travel. Later this year, you’ll also be able to see the cost to offset the carbon footprint for your flights, as well as the ability to compare the carbon footprint between air and rail to help you choose the most carbon efficient route technology to ensure we have the right kit and capabilities – such as Teams and more training
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