Our journey towards sustainability

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Our communities 55 Our commitment to a financially inclusive society Fundraising in France - PlaNet Finance As part of International Women’s Day and our collaboration with PlaNet Finance, we raised awareness and funds for “Microfinance and Women – promoting female entrepreneurship”, a project in Cameroon that supports the empowerment of women. It is particularly difficult to access training in order to become an entrepreneur in Cameroon, all the more so being a woman. Women’s unemployment rate is almost 80%. “Microfinance and Women” helps women entrepreneurs by improving their business management skills through capacity building training and coaching on innovative mobile technology, strengthening their financial empowerment with training on financial education and facilitated access to market opportunities, and increasing and securing their incomes so that they can improve their family living conditions. 300 women have benefited from the program, and we’re proud to have contributed to this great initiative Diverse suppliers Women’s empowerment is one part of fostering an inclusive society. However, our interest and commitment goes beyond that. Globally, regionally and locally, we are committed to working with minority-owned businesses in delivering our services. We are a member of WeConnect International and MSDUK networks, which focus on women-owned businesses and diverse minority suppliers, respectively. Entrepreneurial Winning Women (EWW) The Entrepreneurial Winning Women (EWW) program identifies and celebrates high-potential women entrepreneurs and provides them with personalized one-on-one business insights and advice, as well as insider access to strategic networks. Unlike many programs, which focus on helping women to start a business, EWW supports women with existing enterprises to scale up and become market leaders. EWW is expanding across EMEIA, which means we will be supporting women’s advancement and leadership, which in turns helps to accelerate gender parity in the workplace. Appendices Our communities Our people Our clients Introduction
Our communities 56 Minimizing our environmental impact Reducing our environmental footprint to work more sustainably We challenge ourselves to work in a more environmentally sustainable manner and to reduce the impact of our operations on the planet. How we can make a difference As a professional services organization focused around the movement of our people, our key direct environmental impacts are not from the products or services we develop but from our travel and real estate. The focus of our environmental impact is therefore on monitoring, managing and, ultimately, reducing air travel emissions and improving the energy efficiency of our buildings year-onyear. Indirectly, we can also have an impact on the environment through the services we offer and deliver to our clients, with examples earlier in this report demonstrating our support of clients’ efforts to reduce their carbon emission levels. Across all of our activities, including our client engagements, which often require travel and our events that involve transport and shipping, Headcount up 20% 2014 we review all aspects for their environmental impact. EY sets objectives on a global level and actions them locally through targeted initiatives. These global objectives are: • Carbon footprint measurement • Collecting and analyzing data on business travel and office energy consumption • Key performance indicators monitoring • Having a benchmark to help reduce our environmental footprint and promote sustainable business practices • Travel policy implementation • Putting in place an environmentally responsible policy. These are currently developed at local level only (see UK example) • Waste management guidelines • Establish best practice to be shared globally • Meetings • Finding ways to make them more environmentally friendly, including through increased videoconferencing We have only increased our total carbon emissions by 0.1% 2015 2014 Our environmental numbers Looking deeper into the numbers, we can see that although travel has increased, our building efficiency has improved dramatically, resulting in the overall per full-time employee (FTE) reduction year on year. For travel, the EMEIA FS Learning Forum that took place in Rome in May 2015 accounted for just under 10% of the annual travel carbon emissions. This means that despite the increase in air travel emissions over the course 2015 of 2015 compared with 2014, a significant proportion of this is from a specific event. This shows that we have reduced emissions earlier in the year, to compensate for the impending travel towards the end of the year. The good practices picked up in 2015 for an event of this scale will provide a strong platform from which we can reduce our travel-related emissions going forward. We’re proud to report that despite growing our headcount by almost 20% between 2014 and 2015, we have only increased our total carbon emissions by 0.1%. The result of this is a 9.7% decrease per FTE. Carbon emissions per full-time employee (FTE) have gone down by 9.7% Appendices Our communities Our people Our clients Introduction
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