Sustainable business as a catalyst for a purpose-led and values-driven organization

Our CO2 target achieved through implemented measures, aided by Covid-19

Due to COVID-19 we invested less than intended in fiscal year 2019/2020, a total of € 1.1 million, in sustainability measures. With the changed circumstances, we wanted to know how to invest most effectively. The budget not spent in this year, a total of € 0.8 million, will be added to the 2020/2021 budget.

In 2019/2020 we invested in the development of a Personal Carbon Dashboard to inform our employees of their environmental performance, and in the continuous reduction of the environmental footprint of our buildings. This dashboard will be implemented in FY21. We also continued investing in the acceleration of our transition to an electric car fleet by facilitating early lease break options for cars that run on fossil fuels (35 percent electric as of 30 June 2020).

PwC chairs the ‘Anders Vliegen’ (Fly Differently) working group of the Dutch Sustainable Mobility Pledge, a network of large public and private organisations who have committed themselves to actively reducing their carbon emissions caused by travel. We encouraged other organisations to follow us in committing to reducing emissions. We also became a launching partner of Board Now, the programme from Sky Energy which provides to fly on Biofuel.

We create awareness and impact through sustainable advice, thought leadership and knowledge sharing

By sharing knowledge internally and externally about sustainable development goals (SDGs), we facilitate dialogue with our clients and stakeholders on topics relevant to their strategic agendas. We support social enterprises with pro-bono advice. We do this through our Social Impact Lab, but also by adding them where possible to our own supply chains as suppliers.

In 2019/2020 we worked together with 211 social enterprises (2018/2019: 152) on a pro-bono basis. Fifteen percent (2018/2019: 22%) of our people were involved and we spent 38,399 hours (2018/2019: 39,164) in total.