We continue to be active in the global climate across these areas. With the ongoing impact of the our ofifces and from our air travel. We report annually conversation and have recently: pandemic, we have seen our emissions reduce in on the areas of our environmental impact that are line with government lockdown measures in various most material to PwC, namely scopes 1, 2 and 3 ■ Joined the LEAF (Lowering Emissions by countries - and with our entire workforce continuing (air travel). As a professional services ifrm, our reliance Accelerating Forest ifnance) coalition, to support to work from home at various stages throughout the on natural resources and capital is relatively small what is expected to become one of the largest ever year, we have seen our scope 1 and 2 emissions compared with many other industries. Therefore we public-private efforts to protect our tropical forests decline by 13% and 27% respectively. Air travel do not report on our consumption of fresh water and (scope 3) is our largest source of carbon emissions, land use. ■ Become a champion for the WEF’s Clean Skies and, as expected, we saw a further reduction from for Tomorrow coalition to help advance and scale last year – of 92% – due to the continuing restrictions the production of sustainable low-carbon fuels on both domestic and international air travel. Our total GHG emissions have reduced by 80% from FY20 ■ Remained heavily involved in vital discussions levels, with our GHG emissions in FY21 being 87,500 about climate change issues, including tonnes CO2e compared to 432,372 tonnes CO2e in sponsoring New York Climate Week in September FY20. In FY21, we bought 83% of our electricity from 2021, and seconding two climate experts to renewable sources, taking us closer to our goal of Afifrming our approach to the Climate Champions team as it prepares for becoming 100% renewable by 2022 across our 21 emissions reduction targets COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021 largest territories (FY20: 71%). ■ Supported an open letter advocating policy We fully recognise the importance of actively reducing We have received validation for our change through our membership of the WEF the climate impact of our operational footprint today. climate targets from The Science Based Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders And to mitigate our impacts further as we work Targets initiative (SBTi). We were proud to towards our net zero commitment in 2030, we are receive the SBTi’s validation, which afifrms ■ Become a founding member of the Net Zero continuing to support a range of high-quality carbon our approach and timeline to achieve our Financial Services Providers Alliance, signing up reduction projects. These projects not only help us to emissions reduction targets in line with a to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero reduce carbon emissions but also enable us to take 1.5 degree scenario. The Science Based commitments in September 2021 responsibility for our impact. The initiatives we are Targets initiative is a collaboration between supporting have collectively impacted more than CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, Addressing our impact today 77 million people, protected or restored 510,000 World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Our net zero commitment builds on our 2018 hectares of land, and created over 134,000 new full- World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). environmental commitment to drive energy efifciency time jobs. Find out more about our offset projects. within our ofifces, switch to 100% renewable electricity and offset air travel (scope 3) emissions The biggest environmental impacts from operating from our 21 largest ifrms. We are making progress our business come from the energy we use to power
