We anchor sustainability in business fundamentals

Our environment goals span three areas: carbon reduction and removal, planning for water risk and moving toward zero waste.

Carbon reduction and removal

We remain committed to reducing our environmental impact in how we operate our business. In fiscal 2025, we achieved our 2025 carbon removal goal through the use of credits from our nature-based carbon removal projects, which were applied to remaining emissions after reductions across our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

We continue to work toward our SBTi-approved net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets, including near-term 2030 and long-term 2040 reduction targets, which are aligned with SBTi's Corporate Net-Zero Standard.

Carbon reduction

Our GHG emissions primarily result from business travel and purchased goods and services. In fiscal 2025, we maintained 100% renewable electricity in our facilities through the purchase of renewable electricity contracts equivalent to the amount of electricity we consume.

As of the end of fiscal 2025, our Scope 1 and 2 emissions decreased 91% from our fiscal 2019 base year against our 2030 target, primarily due to a mix of maintaining 100% renewable electricity in our facilities, as well as driving energy-efficient practices where possible. Our Scope 3 emissions per unit of revenue decreased by 61% against our 2030 target.

We continue to strive to reduce or mitigate increases in our Scope 3 emissions, by leveraging digital tools to meet client needs while minimizing travel where feasible; encouraging our people to make climate-smart travel decisions; working together with our suppliers to decarbonize business travel, set environmental targets and collaborate on their decarbonization journey; and focusing on sustainable AI and technology solutions.

While we plan to continue these actions, our ability to achieve our near- and long-term goals remains challenging. Our emissions may increase as our business grows and evolves to meet our clients' needs, including driving reinvention with AI, data and technology, and as we continue to collaborate with clients in their locations.

Additionally, our progress may be impacted by the availability and cost of low- or zero- carbon energy sources and technologies, and the ability of our suppliers to reduce their emissions and harness new technologies.

Renewable electricity

In fiscal 2025 we maintained 100% renewable electricity in our facilities.

As we do not own our facilities and procure most of our energy from the grid, we purchase renewable electricity contracts equivalent to the amount of electricity we consume, in line with the guidelines set by RE100, the global consortium of businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity.

Going forward, we plan to maintain 100% renewable electricity in our facilities. As we purchase renewable electricity, including through power purchase agreements, we also support the generation of more renewable sources of electricity.

We also continue to drive energy efficiency. In fiscal 2025 we expanded our use of smart meters, which provide benefits including increased speed of data collection and analytic insights to inform our energy management decisions.

Responsible travel 

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 travel to encourage climate-smart travel decisions. We used Microsoft Teams for more than 17 billion minutes of audio and more than 4 billion minutes of video calls in fiscal 2025.

When travel is necessary, we are equipping our people to make climate-smart travel decisions. For example:

• We use analytics and reporting to help our travelers 
and business stakeholders to estimate future travel and use less carbon-intensive modes of travel. This includes measuring the carbon savings by switching from air to less carbon-intensive rail travel, and emphasizing in our travel policy and communications the use of rail over air when practical.
  
  
• Our Travel Smart Toolkit shares policies, resources, ideas and templates to support project teams in their carbon reduction journey.
  
  
• An aviation carbon calculator highlights emissions differences between flights to inform booking decisions.

Our air, hotel and ground transport suppliers are a key resource in reducing the carbon associated with travel, and we are working together to increase the availability of lower-carbon choices for our travelers.

Supplier sustainability

We are working with our suppliers to reduce our Scope 3 emissions.

In fiscal 2025 we achieved our goal that 90% of our key suppliers* disclose their environmental targets and actions being taken to reduce emissions. Going forward we plan to continue engaging with our suppliers to gather more emissions data using our Sustainable Procurement Hub and work together with our suppliers to set environmental targets and collaborate on their decarbonization journey.

_{^{*Key suppliers for purposes of this goal were defined as vendors that represent a significant portion of our 2019 Scope 3 emissions.}}

Enabling low-carbon client delivery

Just as we engage with our key suppliers to understand how their actions affect our emissions, our clients engage with us to understand our impact on their emissions.

To support transparency with our clients, we have developed detailed analytics and reporting focused on our business travel emissions so we can share emissions data with our clients as part of our delivery activities.

Sustainable IT

Our global IT organization takes a cloud-first and sustainability-focused approach to the way we operate, develop new applications, and innovate to run our business. With our journey to cloud complete, we continue to focus on new, more sustainable capabilities from our technology providers while further embedding Sustainable IT practices into our operations.

Key ongoing initiatives designed to help lower our technology emissions include:

• Cloud optimization efforts to manage energy consumption and improve efficiency
  
  
• Centrally managing device and energy settings of workstations
  
  
• Using a data-driven refresh program to extend device lifecycles
  
  
• Working with our IT suppliers to understand how we can collaborate to accelerate our journey

As technology rapidly evolves, it unlocks transformative opportunities to address the world’s most pressing challenges. However, new technologies can also pose sustainability challenges.

As one of the co-founders of the Green Software Foundation (GSF), we are helping to advance sustainable technology. GSF's initiatives include assessing and reporting the carbon footprint of applications, equipping developers with the tools and training needed for sustainable software engineering, and discovering energy-efficient practices for AI.

In fiscal 2025 we made notable progress in scaling sustainable AI, including:

• Creating role-based Sustainable Software and AI training for leaders, architects, and developers, to embed sustainability-by-design into generative AI solutions
  
  
• Continuing to embed sustainability as a core principle in how we design, deploy and use AI
  
  
• Building a generative AI carbon calculator and dashboard to measure the emissions and cost impacts of AI. The tool evaluates how efficiently an AI system uses computing power to deliver meaningful outcomes, which provides actionable insights for right-sizing models and optimizing prompts
   

As we continue taking steps to embed sustainability into technology innovation, including through the responsible use of AI, we remain focused on creating lasting value—for Accenture and with our clients.

Nature-based carbon removal

We are investing in nature-based carbon removal projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Our nature-based carbon removal projects are generally targeted to reforest land, improve biodiversity and the resilience of ecosystems, help make agriculture more sustainable and help create green jobs. They are expected to physically remove millions of metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere as part of our journey to our SBTi-approved fiscal 2040 net-zero targets.

At the end of fiscal 2025, our nature-based carbon removal portfolio included projects in Indonesia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. Where technically feasible, we are working with our partners to make sure our projects are registered and tracked or certified against relevant standards.

Our nature-based carbon removal projects are designed to support and respect the United Nations Global Compact's (UNGC) universal principles on human rights, labor, environment, anti-corruption and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We have established reporting procedures to help ensure oversight, quality control and alignment with these principles.

In fiscal 2025 we applied carbon removal credits from these projects to address our remaining emissions. We continue to evaluate how best to achieve our SBTi-approved 2040 net-zero targets, which prioritize emissions reductions over removals. We will adapt and evolve our strategy as needed between carbon removals and reduction initiatives, including how we engage with suppliers and focusing on sustainable AI and technology solutions that minimize environmental impact for us and our clients.

Planning for water risk

Although Accenture is not a water-intensive company, to safeguard our people and operations we have developed water resiliency action plans for 100% of our facilities in high-risk areas to reduce the impact of climate-related flooding, drought and water scarcity on our business and our people. We proactively analyze our water risk using the World Resources Institute Aqueduct tool, and we also measure, monitor and report water use for our locations in high-risk areas.

We continue our efforts to minimize our operational use of water where feasible.

Moving toward zero waste: e-waste, furniture and single-use plastics

E-waste and office furniture

In fiscal 2025, we achieved our goal to reuse or recycle 100% of our electronic waste (e-waste)—such as computers and servers—as well as all our office furniture, and we will continue to focus on this going forward.*

• We reused or recycled 100% of our e-waste relating to computers, servers, and uninterruptible power supply devices.
  
  
• We reused or recycled 100% of our furniture waste relating to chairs, desks/workstations, sofas and tables, working with vendors to help us extend the life cycle of our furniture, including through refurbishment and reuse or recycling.

_{^{*Excludes Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft.}}

Eliminated single-use plastics in our facilities

Since 2023, we have maintained the elimination of single-use plastics in our facilities (straws, plates/bowls, cutlery, cups, lids, stirrers, bottles and to-go containers) by purchasing reusable and plastic-free items.

Supporting a low-carbon future

To unlock shared value for business and society, we are supporting the development of solutions that aim to help create a low-carbon future.

Examples include:

Direct air capture

We are helping support development and scaling of carbon dioxide removal technology using direct air capture (DAC) with Climeworks and 1PointFive. We are continuing to help Climeworks use IT and cloud in its operations, and have also engaged the company to explore how its innovative technology-based carbon dioxide removal solution may be used to help advance our environmental commitments.

Sustainable aviation fuel

To help facilitate the growth of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply and demand, we are collaborating with cross-industry ecosystem partners.

We are a member of United Airlines’ Eco-Skies Alliance of corporate SAF buyers and are committed to purchasing SAF only from socially and ethically beneficial sources. We are also a partner in the Qantas Sustainable Aviation Fuel Coalition, which was created to help Qantas accelerate the use of SAF across their fleet, and aims to support the development of the SAF industry in Australia.

In 2022, Shell Aviation, Accenture and American Express Global Business Travel, with support from Energy Web Foundation, collaborated to launch Avelia, a blockchain-powered book-and-claim solution for aviation. Avelia uses blockchain, a digital database, that securely tracks both the delivery of SAF into the aviation fueling network and the allocation of associated environmental attributes, preventing erroneous double counting. As of June 2025, Avelia has contributed to more than 41 million gallons of SAF being injected into the global aviation fuel network.

Nature and biodiversity

We recognize the importance of nature and biodiversity restoration and remain committed to managing our impact. We have taken steps in our own operations and we are engaging with our clients, our suppliers, our people and our communities to take action.

• Our operations: We are taking action for nature through our environment goals—including our nature-based carbon removal solutions.
  
  
• Our clients: We are helping clients prioritize nature-related risks and opportunities, develop strategic roadmaps with actionable targets and tech-enabled monitoring to drive business resilience and value.
  
  
• Our suppliers: We engage with suppliers around nature and biodiversity through our Sustainable Procurement Hub.
  
  
• Our people: We provide opportunities for our people to learn, commit, volunteer and innovate. This includes nature and biodiversity training and acting as environmental volunteers and teachers.
  
  
• Our communities: We are engaging with our communities to create positive impacts on nature by collaborating with partners and investing in projects to support innovation, education and digital solutions.

We support the call for nature and biodiversity targets, that drive business value grounded in science and based on clearly defined guidance and frameworks, in collaboration with leading standards-setting organizations.

Environmental Responsibility Policy

Accenture's most significant environmental aspects relate to Scope 2 electricity usage in our locations and Scope 3 emissions from business travel and purchased goods and services. Reducing our environmental impact is built into our Code of Business Ethics and our Core Values, specifically Stewardship. These inform our Environmental Responsibility Policy, which was established in 2007 and is reviewed annually. In addition, industry-wide external certifications, such as ISO® 14001, demonstrate our commitment to running our business responsibly and sustainably and to integrating environmental processes into our operations. Accenture’s Environment Management System is ISO® 14001 certified globally, with more than 100 locations in scope across our operations. Our ISO® 14001 certified locations are listed on Accenture’s ISO® 14001 certificate.

Our commitment to ethics, human rights and strong corporate governance is a key driver of our business strategy and is essential to safeguarding our people, clients, brand and financial performance. It is the foundation on which we build trust.

Our defined corporate governance structure and Ethics & Compliance program—grounded in our core values and Code of Business Ethics (COBE)—guide our strategic business decisions and actions as we strive to foster a culture of integrity, transparency, inclusivity and respect for all people.

We believe that our shared ethical culture is critical to our growth in a competitive marketplace. Our clients involve us in some of the most sensitive areas of their business, in part because of our integrity and commitment to the highest ethical standards, as evidenced by our long-term client relationships around the world. This is reflected in the fact that we have long-term relationships and have partnered with our top 195 clients for 10 or more years. 

We are building a strong ethical culture

Making the right decision in the moment when it matters 
is essential in today’s fast-changing business, legal and regulatory landscape. To help our people make ethical choices and consider the full impact of their decisions, we rely on our Core Values, our COBE and policies to inform our behavior.

We offer a broad range of resources to help our people better understand and fully engage with our COBE, including annual required Ethics & Compliance training, a Making Good Decisions tool, our COBE toolkit with downloadable job aids, and internal and external platforms for raising concerns, including anonymously.

In recognition of these efforts, Accenture has been named to Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies list for 18 consecutive years—a testament to our commitment to ethical business practices.

Ethics & Compliance training

All our people, including part-time employees, as well as contractors, are required to complete our Ethics & Compliance training each year and attest to their understanding of our COBE and relevant policies. This is fundamental to promoting a shared understanding of ethical conduct across our organization. In fiscal 2025, we achieved completion rates of 98% for Accenture people, including our managing directors, and 100% of our Global Management Committee (GMC).

Our Ethics & Compliance training is regularly updated to feature interactive and visually engaging courses on our COBE, including current topics such as AI and data, protection against deepfake threats, and protecting information. The training also promotes knowledge on identifying and reporting harassment, sexual harassment and disrespectful behavior and supporting inclusion and a bias-free workplace. Our people in Brazil, Canada, France, India, Philippines and the United States are required to take additional annual anti-harassment training that meets local regulations.

As part of our Ethics & Compliance training, we also offer a module on anticorruption, which is required for all executives (managers and above) and people in certain corporate functions. We had a 99% completion rate for this module in fiscal 2025.

Our goal is to maintain our high completion rates for training globally and to continue to evaluate our training (including through user feedback) to make sure it remains relevant and effective.

People in higher-risk roles and markets are provided additional anticorruption and other compliance training, including training led by our local Legal teams.

Our core values

Our values shape our culture and define our character. We live our core values through individual behaviors that guide how we act and make decisions.

To see our Core Values, visit the Code of Business Ethics page on our website and click "Download our code.”

Anticorruption policies and compliance

Our COBE and related anticorruption policies, which 
are both part of our global Ethics & Compliance program and human rights efforts, require our people, business partners and business intermediaries (and suppliers through our Supplier Standards of Conduct) to comply with anticorruption laws everywhere we do business, including:

• U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
  
  
• Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
  
  
• United Nations Convention against Corruption
  
  
• U.K. Bribery Act
  
  
• Other applicable anticorruption laws

As the business environment continues to evolve, we remain focused on assessing and mitigating our risk profiles. In fiscal 2025, we continued to work with outside counsel to conduct a compliance review to assess the effectiveness of our anticorruption program and identify areas for continued enhancement to align with leading practices and global regulatory expectations.

Reporting concerns and transparency

We encourage and empower our people and third parties to speak up safely and confidently if they experience, see or become aware of any potentially inappropriate behavior, including any form of disrespect, harassment, racism, discrimination or retaliation—or have any concerns about unethical, illegal behavior or breaches of human rights. We have zero tolerance for retaliation.

We offer our people many ways to raise a concern—through our leaders, through any of our people in Human Resources or Legal, and anonymously through our Accenture Business Ethics Helpline—and once they do, we make it clear what to expect, with descriptions of the review and resolution process.

We also encourage our people to escalate a concern—without fear of retaliation—if they do not receive an acceptable response from their first point of contact. We take all concerns raised seriously, including allegations of retaliation.

We investigate 100% of concerns reported to HR, Legal or the Accenture Business Ethics Helpline, and seek to confirm the facts in a professional, methodical, thoughtful and balanced manner. Upon completing our investigation, we determine appropriate outcomes and endeavor to apply them fairly and consistently on a global basis—regardless of seniority, position or contribution to Accenture.

Greater transparency—from what happens after our people raise a concern to the resulting outcomes—is an important element in helping them speak up.

We promote greater transparency through an internal site where our people can find out:

• How to raise a concern.
  
  
• How to find support once they raise a concern.
  
  
• How the investigation process works.
  
  
• How we protect reporting parties.
  
  
• How we have zero tolerance for any form of retaliation against anyone who raises a concern.

This site also reports aggregated internal data on a global percentage basis about the types of conduct-based matters investigated in the previous fiscal year and their outcomes.

Further increasing transparency, in addition to information found in our COBE, we make public our policy on Speaking Up and Zero Tolerance for Retaliation, which outlines how our people can raise a concern (including formal grievances if required) and reporting and escalation procedures.

Clear standards of behavior

The first fundamental behavior in our COBE is “Make Your Conduct Count.” It articulates five locally relevant yet globally applicable standards to guide how our people act:

• We speak up about concerns, knowing Accenture never tolerates retaliation.
  
  
• We treat each other with respect.
  
  
• We are proud to be ambassadors of Accenture, and we act accordingly.
  
  
• We apply our principle of meritocracy when we make decisions about our people.
  
  
• We ensure our personal interests and relationships do not create conflicts for Accenture.

This framework is our foundation for creating a positive, respectful and inclusive work environment.

We continue to highlight our standards of behavior in our required Ethics & Compliance training. We also monitor our ethical environment through anonymous surveys of our people at regular intervals.

Cybersecurity governance

Our enterprise risk management program is an annual and ongoing process designed to identify, assess and manage Accenture’s risk exposures over multiple time horizons. Our enterprise risk management program and disclosure controls and procedures are designed to appropriately escalate key risks to the Board of Directors, as well as to analyze potential risks for disclosure. As part of the Board’s risk oversight, the Board devotes time and attention to cybersecurity and data privacy-related risks, with the Audit Committee responsible for overseeing information technology risk exposures, including cybersecurity, data privacy and data security.

The Audit Committee receives reports on cybersecurity and data privacy matters and related risk exposures from management, including our chief information security officer, at least twice a year and more frequently as applicable. In addition, the Audit Committee’s quarterly risk updates include developments regarding IT security and data protection. Recent topics included integrated third-party risk management, the evolving AI security governance and innovation landscape and client data protection. The Audit Committee regularly updates the Board on such matters and the Board also periodically receives reports from management directly. We have protocols by which cybersecurity incidents that meet established reporting thresholds are escalated within the company and, where appropriate, reported promptly to the Board.

Data privacy and information security

Safeguarding data and systems is one of our most important responsibilities in building and maintaining trust, not only with our people but also with our clients and other stakeholders.

Beyond adhering to specific regional legal requirements, our global Data Privacy program obligations apply strict data privacy and security standards to the information, everywhere we receive or have access to it.

Our people are expected to practice effective and responsible data management in accordance with our policies, including our Data Privacy Policy and procedures, our Binding Corporate Rules for Controllers and Data Processors, and our Breach Notification process, as well as new and changing global regulations and jurisprudence.

While many of our people work in our office spaces, others work in remote and hybrid work environments. This complex work model, partnered with potential business risks associated with ongoing geopolitical tensions, reinforces the need for a proactive, cyber-resilient approach to keep data safe across
our business, our people and our clients.

For example:

We strive to adhere to the highest and strictest information protection and privacy standards for handling and protecting personal data. Accenture holds ISO®/IEC 27001:2022 (Information Security) and ISO®/IEC 27701:2019 (Privacy Information Management) certifications across both our Enterprise and Client Service Business. In addition, Accenture obtained approval for its EU BCR for Processors in 2024 which further demonstrates the strength and effectiveness of Accenture's Data Protection Program. These approvals and certifications acknowledge our compliance to certain standards and laws and accountability and require regular reviews or audits to maintain.

Through our data privacy and data protection programs, we work hard to uphold global data protection and privacy requirements in countries where we perform business, including implementation of Binding Corporate Rules for Data Controllers and Data Processors and other approved international data transfer mechanisms, e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses as applicable. Both programs necessitate completion of privacy reviews (including Transfer Impact Assessments, Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments and periodic external country and internal Enterprise risk assessments.)

Our Enterprise and Client Data Protection programs define the stewardship of Accenture and client information. They define our management processes and controls, in accordance with relevant information protection and privacy laws. Accenture has been externally assessed as operating industry-leading cybersecurity systems at the Highest NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) Implementation Tier by BSI.

We take security seriously, with extensive training and learning assets. Our people are mandated to complete data privacy and information security training. Beyond completing our required data security training, Accenture people participate in our Information Security Advocate program, an industry award-winning, self-paced training program designed to strengthen awareness and adoption of secure behaviors. Further, our global awareness campaigns are designed to equip our people with the latest best practice learnings and behaviors necessary to maintain safe data security hygiene.

In addition to keeping Accenture, our people and our clients protected through advanced internal security practices, technologies and controls, we serve as a global provider of managed security services, helping our clients with comprehensive security solutions that span strategy development, risk management, cyber defense, digital identity and application.

Responsible AI

The Audit Committee’s oversight responsibility includes AI risk exposures. As part of this oversight, the committee receives reports on AI-related matters, including our Responsible AI compliance program, and related risk exposures from management, at least annually and more frequently as applicable. The Audit Committee regularly updates the Board on these matters and the Board also periodically receives reports from management directly.

We have developed a Responsible AI compliance program, which is grounded in our Code of Business Ethics and core values and rests on a set of principles that we apply to our internal AI systems and the work we do with clients, partners and suppliers: human by design; fairness; transparency, explainability and accuracy; safety; accountability; compliance, data privacy and cybersecurity; and sustainability. Our program has CEO sponsorship and has been scaled to our people worldwide. As the development, adoption, and use of AI technologies continues to change, we are continuously working to evolve and improve our Responsible AI compliance program, which includes governance and principles, risk screening and assessments, standards and controls, risk mitigation, training and awareness and monitoring.

We continue to focus on embedding AI literacy, including responsible AI as a component within our required ethics and compliance training for all employees, embedding it as content in other AI-related training and then providing more in-depth, targeted training for those employees most directly involved with the development and deployment of AI. We are also helping clients implement their own responsible AI compliance programs.

Business continuity

Our approach to managing disruption is based on years of experience, preparation and adapting the way we manage and deliver services.

Our business resilience strategy supports how
we operate as a company, starting with our global client base and the services we provide to them, underpinned by internal functions and technology, and supported by the collaborations of our third-party ecosystem.

Accenture’s business resilience program is aligned to industry standards and practices (ISO® 22301 across our India and Philippines locations and other select locations, based on need).

Corporate governance: our practices and policies

We have a history of strong corporate governance and believe that good governance is critical to achieving long-term shareholder value. We are committed to governance practices and policies that serve the long-term interests of Accenture and our stakeholders. Our 2025 Proxy Statement includes a listing and summary of our corporate governance practices and policies relating to the structure and independence of our Board of Directors (Board), oversight and shareholder rights, among our other strong corporate governance practices.

Learn more in our 2025 Proxy Statement.

In addition, our Corporate Governance Guidelines and committee charters, which are available on our corporate website, also address corporate governance matters.

These documents outline the role of our Board and its committees and our key governance practices, as well as the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills of our directors.

Oversight of Sustainability

Board oversight

At Accenture, responsibility for sustainability matters starts at the top, with our Board actively overseeing our sustainability strategies and progress in meeting our sustainability commitments, and cascades throughout the business. The Board has delegated sustainability oversight responsibility to committees of the Board based on the expertise of those committees. These committees include:

Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee

• The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee is responsible for overseeing our overall sustainability performance, disclosure, strategies, goals and objectives and monitoring evolving sustainability risks and opportunities.
  

Compensation, Culture & People Committee

• The Compensation, Culture & People Committee is responsible for overseeing our strategies related to our people, including matters such as pay equity, leadership succession and culture, and monitoring related risks.

Audit Committee

• The Audit Committee oversees our approach to the quality of sustainability-related data and controls.

Management responsibilities 
Global Management Committee

• Our Global Management Committee sponsors our responsible company strategies. These senior leaders, spanning multiple geographic markets, industries, services and corporate functions, engage on these topics and are responsible for implementing strategies, goals and policies.
  
  
• Together, they make strategic recommendations and decisions on our sustainability initiatives, including sponsorship of our non-financial goals.

Sustainability Operations Executive Committee

• Our sustainability operations executive committee, made up of a subset of the global management committee, is accountable for approving strategic global decisions aligned with Accenture’s corporate sustainability commitments.
  
  
• Our sustainability operations executive committee and steering committee (which is comprised of leaders across the Company) meet regularly to monitor our sustainability performance, identify improvement areas and elevate matters to the Board as appropriate through the global management committee.

Accenture Global Human Rights Statement

Our commitment

Accenture has been a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) since 2008. Every year, we submit our Communication on Progress in implementing the Ten Principles of the UNGC and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

As stated in our Code of Business Ethics (COBE), we seek to align to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We therefore focus our human rights efforts on those areas that we determined are most relevant to our business and operations in terms of potential human rights impacts. We also recognize that our clients and other stakeholders increasingly seek visibility into our human rights practices and policies. 

We continue to review our human rights efforts, as well as best practices in the marketplace, to understand how we can further strengthen our commitments. If it is unclear how to apply the law consistent with our human rights principles, we are guided by our Core Values and COBE to support and respect the principles of internationally recognized human rights.

We also strive to adhere to relevant international instruments and documents, including the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, in addition to the UN Guiding Principles.

Our human rights governance

We consider the support and respect for human rights to be an integral part of our sustainability commitments. Our sustainability operations steering committee, which is comprised of leaders across Accenture, has responsibility across all operational sustainability topics, including human rights governance.

We have also appointed select Accenture managing directors to act as named officers with accountability for compliance with applicable human rights legislation including the Modern Slavery Acts of Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom and the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act.

Human rights across our business and supply chain

Because of the global scale and diversity of our business, we focus our supply chain due diligence efforts on areas that align with our human rights priorities; areas where we can appropriately make the most impact; and areas of heightened concern or in higher-risk geographies.

We understand the importance of assessing potential risks to rightsholders. We continually review, adapt and incorporate human rights due diligence across our enterprise risk management systems and legal compliance processes, in addition to across our supply chain.

Living wage

Accenture is committed to paying a living wage and continues to drive the adoption of a living wage with our suppliers around the world. Our Supplier Standards of Conduct (SSoC) strongly encourages our suppliers to pay a living wage (or higher) to people who provide services directly to our company and/or our clients.

Supplier Standards of Conduct

Our relationships with our suppliers help us embed and amplify our human rights commitments. Published in 20 languages, our SSoC sets out the standards and practices that Accenture suppliers are required to uphold in respect of human rights and reflects our Core Values, our ethical principles and our commitment to human rights, and supplements our COBE.

In turn, Accenture expects our suppliers to apply our SSoC to their own suppliers, thereby continuing to scale the impact of our ethical procurement strategy.

Supporting human rights through our Sustainable Procurement Hub

We are committed to doing business ethically and legally, and we seek to leverage our global buying power to support human rights.

As part of this commitment, we continue to invest in new technology and processes to help us have greater visibility into our suppliers' sustainability performance, including human rights.

For example, our Sustainable Procurement Hub, is available in more than 50 countries and provides greater transparency from our direct suppliers about their own human rights policies, due diligence and inclusive practices.

Our human rights priorities

We focus our human rights efforts on areas we determined are most relevant to our business and operations in terms of potential human rights impacts.

To see our human rights priorities, visit the Code of Business Ethics page on our website and click "Download our code."

Human rights reporting

As part of our commitment to transparency and human rights we assess our human rights risks and report on them.

Modern slavery

Our long-standing commitment to human rights includes our efforts toward eliminating modern slavery, child labor and human trafficking from our business and supply chains. Given the nature of our business and supply chains, and the risk assessments we have undertaken to date, we believe the risk of modern slavery, child labor and human trafficking in our business and supply chains is low.

However, we are not complacent and regularly 
review how we can improve and evolve in response to changing circumstances and our evolving business. Our Modern Slavery Transparency Statement provides more information about our efforts. While this statement is required by law in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, it also covers our commitment beyond these jurisdictions.

Conflict minerals

As our business evolves, we seek to continue adapting our human rights due diligence strategies. We work to be thoughtful and targeted in how we select and engage our suppliers, particularly in relation to higher-risk sectors and countries.

For example, we continue to invest in and develop our Sustainable Procurement Hub and Third-Party Risk Management processes, integrating supplier management functions to more seamlessly identify, prioritize and mitigate risks in our supply chain.

Our multidisciplinary 3TG minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum or gold) working group continues to prepare our annual Conflict Minerals Report by reviewing our supply chain for products that contain 3TG minerals, in conjunction with our third-party specialist.

Our Supplier Impact & Sustainability team has a dedicated focus on conflict minerals in our supply chain and leverages tools like our Sustainable Procurement Hub to better understand our suppliers' sustainability performance, including whether any products our suppliers provide to Accenture contain 3TG. This work is a vital part of how we address human rights, including modern slavery, across our global supply chain.

German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act

We promote transparency, accountability and responsible business practices by conducting due diligence assessments on our own business and our supply chain to identify risks related to human rights, seeking to align with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and to comply with supply chain due diligence legislation.

We have published our German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act Policy Statement (LkSG Grundsatzerklärung). While this statement is required by law in Germany, it also covers our global commitments and processes.

Raising concerns

We encourage our people, suppliers and subcontractors to raise ethical and legal concerns, including potential human rights issues, and we provide a range of secure channels for them to do so confidentially, and, where allowed by law, anonymously.

Whether internal or external, we treat all concerns seriously and in strict confidence. We protect anyone who raises, in good faith, a concern about a human rights issue or who assists us, or a law enforcement authority, by providing information to address such a concern.

We provide a mechanism to enable our suppliers’ employees to speak up about legal or ethical concerns. Concerns or violations can be reported (anonymously, where permitted by local law) via the web or through a country-specific number available on the Accenture Business Ethics Helpline. All queries are to be handled by an independent team confidentially—and, where allowed by law, anonymously.

Our ambition is to create more sustainable and more inclusive supply chains through a mindset of responsible buying, both inside and outside our company, while generating long-term value for our clients, suppliers and communities. Engaging with small, medium, inclusive and sustainable suppliers—which are core to the global economy—brings new innovations and different perspectives, and drives resilience to support optimized and value-efficient contribution to our delivery.

Procurement Plus

Our overarching buying approach, Procurement Plus, informs our approach to our supply chain, and helps us build stronger partnerships based on ethical behaviors, transparency, agility and inclusivity. By working with our suppliers through our Global Supplier Impact & Sustainability (SI&S) Program, we aim to leverage our purchasing power to drive positive change.

Supplier Impact & Sustainability

Within Procurement Plus, our award-winning SI&S Program is at the heart of how we deliver against our responsible buying priorities, and guides how we work with suppliers to promote: 

• Ethical procurement and supply chain transparency
• Environmental sustainability and supplier decarbonization
• Human rights
• Supplier impact and development
• Accessible procurement

This program is delivered by a dedicated team of subject matter advisors in environmental sustainability, human rights, supplier impact and development, and data management.

We continue to drive innovation in supplier impact and sustainability by leveraging technology tools such as our Sustainable Procurement Hub to digitize our suppliers' sustainability performance.

Our ethical procurement strategy

One of our top priorities is to foster ethical procurement practices that are reflective of our core values and our Code of Business Ethics (COBE). Our ethical procurement strategy is an underlying component of our business practice and influences applicable training for our people, selection criteria for suppliers and the development of our standards for conducting business with our suppliers.

To encourage broader transparency within our supply chains, we require our suppliers to adhere to our Supplier Standards of Conduct (SSoC), which supplement our COBE, or to make a commitment that is equivalent to our SSoC.

We review our SSOC annually, in line with industry and market conditions, and communicate these standards through a range of mechanisms, including contractual terms and conditions, the Supplier’s Guide to Doing Business with Accenture, as well as our purchase order process. We continue to reiterate our commitment to our standards through communication to 100% of the suppliers that are included in our supplier management program.*

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We also expect our suppliers to apply these standards to their own suppliers.

Our SSoC reflects our support of the Ten Principles of the UNGC—and we have continued working to lead by example in upholding these principles since we committed to the UNGC in 2008. These standards are published in 20 languages and set out the environmental commitments, labor standards, human rights principles, accessibility expectation, and other legal and ethical standards we require our suppliers to uphold when conducting business with Accenture.

Additionally, we review our supply chain strategy through the lens of our COBE and the UNGC Ten Principles as part of our efforts to set industry standards for maintaining an ethical supply chain.  This is particularly important as part of our continuing efforts to encourage our suppliers to pay a living wage.

Payment certainty

We realize the economic certainty prompt payments provide a supplier, whether a Fortune 500 company or a small- or medium-sized enterprise. Our Payment on Time Center of Excellence and technology investment drive continued improvements in this area. 

We are proud to be a part of shifting the payment culture to be more efficient and fairer.

Sustainable Procurement Hub

The Sustainable Procurement Hub (the Hub) allows us to assess and track performance in environmental sustainability, human rights, supplier impact and development, and ethics and compliance for suppliers we engage through the Hub.

These due diligence processes support our buyers on selection decisions and ongoing supplier relationships, while also giving us the insights to identify any critical gaps that may require actions from suppliers.

The Hub is available in more than 50 countries and continues to be advanced with new features and enhancements. We are now using generative AI to drive efficiency in reviewing our supplier standards of conduct and policy documents. Additionally, we also gather and review public information, as necessary.

In fiscal 2025, we conducted an additional 4,000 sustainability assessments, which help us actively engage with our new and existing suppliers to gain better visibility of sustainability performance in our supply chain and outline paths forward for increased positive environmental and social impact.

Promoting supplier engagement

We believe supporting our suppliers in their own sustainability journeys is a key element of our responsible buying culture and our responsibility towards our suppliers. To help drive value in this space, our Procurement Plus SI&S and Supplier Relationship Management teams encourage sustainability collaboration with suppliers leveraging insights from the Hub.

Environmental sustainability in our supply chain

Carbon disclosure

Our suppliers contribute to our own Scope 3 emissions, and so we expect them to prioritize environmental sustainability and provide updates on their carbon emission reduction initiatives, goals and impacts. As a corporate member of CDP’s Supply Chain Program, we use CDP tools to promote engagement, transparency and sustainable practices with our suppliers. Since 2010, we have invited select suppliers to respond to CDP’s supply chain self-assessment questionnaire.

In addition, we continue to use our Sustainable Procurement Hub for supplier sustainability assessments to gain carbon insights from select suppliers.

Supplier decarbonization support

We continued to help support suppliers in assessing their decarbonization maturity and, depending on the identified maturity, in emissions base lining, target-setting initiative selection and development of a roadmap to progress toward their decarbonization goals.

We have created several Supplier Decarbonization Handbooks, which are now available on the Hub.

These handbooks serve as self-learning tools and reference documents for suppliers to better understand greenhouse gas emissions terminology, key emission calculation concepts, and practical reduction measures.

We also continued to engage suppliers in a virtual supplier learning session to introduce Accenture’s sustainability assessment.

Insights from investing in supplier decarbonization to drive emission reductions are shared in the Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP) Guide Deepdive.

Human rights in our supply chain

Our commitment to human rights is an integral part of our sustainability commitments and informs our supply chain and supplier selection. Our human rights obligations, including conflict minerals due diligence, are an integral part of our responsible buying strategy.

We have dedicated resources to assess human rights risks in our supply chains and carry out due diligence processes. In addition, we are supporting local compliance programs to help increase awareness within relevant procurement teams.

Supplier Impact & Development

We recognize the opportunity that we have to encourage economic growth and social equity through inclusive procurement practices.

Our Global Supplier Impact & Development program was developed to provide companies owned by people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences the opportunity to participate in our supply chain. Purchasing decisions are merit-based—our program works to help increase the number of companies we consider for each opportunity, using locally applicable terms and definitions and in compliance with local laws. The program's scope included 22 countries in fiscal 2025.

In addition, through our experience developing and implementing this program, we have created a credential which is used by our clients to help build capacity of their small and medium suppliers.

Global Supplier Development Program

Since 2006, we have brought our commitment to supplier impact and development to life through our global Supplier Development Program (SDP).

We deliver SDP, a formal typically 12- to 18-month training and mentoring program, to develop and expand relationships with suppliers in our seven SDP countries: Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. SDP offers two main pillars of support: one-on-one mentoring between Accenture mentors and suppliers; and training, including quarterly symposiums, webinars and access to Accenture's online training academy.

SDP mentees demonstrate their progress by completing business health assessments and quarterly progress reports throughout the duration of the program. As of the end of fiscal 2025, we have graduated more than 290 suppliers since setting up the SDP program.

We continue to partner with accredited learning institutes to deliver the training component of several SDP cohorts.  In the United Kingdom, we continue to partner with Henley Business School’s Centre of Entrepreneurship and recognize our graduates with a Henley Business School Advanced Learning Certificate. In South Africa, we partnered with Tshwane University of Technology's Centre of Entrepreneurship Development for the 2025 SDP class.

To enable the efficient delivery of SDP programs, we run an SME-digital ecosystem (SME-DE) platform that facilitates easy interaction between SMEs and Accenture as well as a global ecosystem of SDP graduates, increasing collaboration opportunities among the alumni network.

The SME-DE platform enables us to drive impact and scale our SDP by having multiple programs running simultaneously and in different geographies. Several clients also use SME-DE now for their supplier development programs.

Inclusive/small business spend in key geographies 

We monitor our inclusive and small business spend* with suppliers throughout the year. In total, our inclusive and small business spend was over $1 billion in fiscal 2025.

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Accessible procurement

When it comes to accessibility, we are only as accessible as our suppliers' products. We work to help ensure that the interactions our people have with software, devices and services are compliant with globally defined accessibility standards of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 AA (WCAG 2.2 AA level).

Procurement Plus and our Accessibility Center of Excellence embed accessibility requirements into standard procurement practices, including supplier selection, contracts and ongoing supplier relationship management, and we are a signatory to Disability:IN's Procure Access Statement, which aims to advance accessible procurement.

Partnerships

We actively promote sustainable and inclusive procurement practices by maintaining partnerships with global, regional and local organizations in this space, and supporting them through leadership positions on Boards of Directors, Executive Committees and founding teams.

Working at the intersection of civil society, government and the private sector, we champion and support impactful cross-sector partnerships.

Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) helps clients—including leading NGOs, private foundations, public donor agencies and the private sector—address society’s most critical challenges. For more than 20 years, ADP has led a wide range of work, fostering partnerships, collective impact and social equity to progress the UN Sustainable Development Goals, improving lives around the world.

We bring innovation and the power of our ecosystem to help our clients reinvent for the future—and maximize their impact—in today's AI-enabled environment.

Our impact

In fiscal 2025, ADP led more than 400 engagements in nearly 30 countries across seven impact areas:

Agriculture

Empowering smallholder farmers through technology and sustainable solutions to improve their livelihood and supply chain resilience

By providing strategic guidance and leveraging cutting-edge technologies and sustainable practices, we help create a better future for the most fragile actors of the agriculture supply chains. We work with our clients to provide education, improve access to markets and create economic opportunities along the value chain.

Climate and Environment

Tackling climate and environmental challenges sustainably  to transform the world we live in

Driving sustainable solutions for a resilient future, we develop strategies and create solutions to tackle pressing environmental challenges. Our approach is designed to be adaptive and scalable, and to enable our clients to reduce emissions, conserve resources and adopt green technologies.

Energy

Unlocking access to affordable electricity, last-mile usage of renewable technology and enabling an energy transition

Pioneering sustainable energy solutions for a greener future, ADP is working to revolutionize the energy sector by promoting renewable solutions. We provide expert guidance to help organizations transition to more sustainable systems, reduce carbon emissions and enhance resilience, driving the adoption of clean energy practices for economic growth and environmental stewardship.

Global Health and Nutrition

Partnering to accelerate health and nutrition for all

ADP leverages its extensive experience and expertise to transform health and nutrition systems, advance health equity, and accelerate global health and nutrition impact for underserved individuals worldwide. By empowering communities and organizations, we seek to reimagine and scale innovative solutions to address global health and nutrition challenges.

Humanitarian and Refugees

Supporting people across their journey through displacement, lawful establishment and integration into host communities

Enhancing support systems for vulnerable populations, ADP focuses on delivering comprehensive aid for displaced and at-risk communities. We work to make programs resilient, adaptable and aligned with international standards, striving to create a world where vulnerable populations receive the support and opportunities they need to rebuild their lives and thrive.

Inclusive Finance

Expanding access to useful, responsible and sustainable financial products and services

We aim to broaden financial inclusion for underserved communities by uniting financial stakeholders and developing models to expand accessible services to more people. Leveraging our expertise in inclusive finance, we help clients design strategies that drive financial empowerment. Through our innovative offerings in this space, we strive to improve the effectiveness of capital deployed to address the SDGs.

Livelihoods and Education

Promoting effective skills building, leading to employment and economic growth

ADP enhances livelihoods by providing sustainable economic opportunities and improving access to quality education worldwide. We offer strategic guidance to help organizations develop vocational training, support skill development and improve educational infrastructure. Leveraging technology and collaboration, we help empower individuals for economic independence and educational growth.

Sustainability Services

To meet the changing needs of our clients and drive progress on sustainability issues, we continue to expand and evolve our portfolio of Sustainability Services. We help our clients drive and report sustainability performance, build next-generation value chains, rotate to more sustainable technology and decarbonize their extended enterprises. By leveraging the power of technology, we can unlock significant value and growth to support sustainable reinvention.

We invest in our communities to help them thrive, and we continue making substantial impacts in the places around the world where we work and live. We do this by collaborating with our clients, ecosystem and nonprofit partners as well as empowering our approximately 779,000 people to make a difference.

In contributing to progress against a broad spectrum of social and environmental challenges, we prioritize helping historically underserved populations achieve economic self-sufficiency. In addition, we are empowering the next generation to build a sustainable future to help support thriving local communities.

Learning to Earning 

For more than a decade, our Skills to Succeed program equipped people with skills for future employment or entrepreneurship opportunities. Building on this legacy, in 2025 we launched our new Learning to Earning initiative which continues our commitment to skilling and increases our focus on supporting people in securing employment or building a business.

In fiscal 2025, programs supported by Learning to Earning reported that approximately 2.5 million people worldwide gained employment-relevant skills, and more than 190,000 people were supported in finding a job or starting a business.*

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We are continuing to use technology to broaden our reach and impact. Building on our long history of running online skilling platforms, we have launched our AI-enabled Learning to Earning portal. This centralized source for free online content aims to help people build the skills and confidence to succeed in the digital economy.

Our Learning to Earning programs include:

Preparing for skills of the future

Providing AI and digital skills development with UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited 

We are continuing to collaborate with UNICEF's Generation Unlimited (GenU) to empower underserved youth in India and Brazil with future-relevant skills through the Passport to Earning (P2E) program. In fiscal 2025, the program reported benefiting approximately 1.2 million young people ages 15-24. Offerings include AI and digital, employability, financial and entrepreneurship skills, as well as coaching, mentoring and apprenticeships to support employment or entrepreneurship.

In April 2025, we joined Microsoft and others as core partners in a multi-year commitment to help GenU continue the P2E program's momentum towards training and certifying 8 million young people by 2027 since the start of the program, including 4 million in AI and digital skills.

Building future-ready skills with Save the Children

With our longstanding partner Save the Children, we launched a new program that aims to equip marginalized youth across seven countries with the critical, future-ready skills needed to succeed in a labor market increasingly shaped by human-machine collaboration. Through this more than $8.5M grant, we aim to support young people ages 15-29 on their journey to economic resilience by skilling more than 110,000 young people by 2029, and supporting a portion of these young people to get a job or start a business.

Enabling your entrepreneurs with Youth Business International

Through our work with Youth Business International (YBI) we aim to accelerate impact for young entrepreneurs—this partnership reported that in fiscal 2025 it helped skill more than 132,000 young people. As part of these efforts, YBI plans to design and launch the AI-enabled EYE (Excellence in Youth Entrepreneurship) Academy to deliver scalable, inclusive learning to support young entrepreneurs.

Advancing employment opportunities with Global Opportunity Youth Network

Accenture has been one of Global Opportunity Youth Network's (GOYN) core global strategic partners since it launched, helping to design, refine and evolve its overall strategy and approach. Our partnership accelerates and scales community-led strategies to advance employment opportunities for young people aged 15-29 who are out of school, unemployed, or working in informal jobs. GOYN reported in fiscal 2025 that more than 95,000 young people improved their employability through skilling, mentoring or professional development.

Pathways to jobs

Building India’s future-ready workforce

Together with Quest Alliance, we’ve formed a strategic partnership to help transform vocational education in India through technology, innovation, and systemic reform. A key focus is blended learning, combining online and in-person training to create personalized, inclusive experiences.

The partnership delivers impact at multiple levels: from directly training young people in IT-enabled services to embedding digital and life skills into Industrial Training Institutes. In fiscal 2025, the program skilled over 58,000 young people and helped more than 30,000 secure employment, including more than 8,000 as entrepreneurs.

Supporting green skills development in India

Together with Global Talent Track (GTT) Foundation in India, we are driving skill development at scale in the green jobs sector. As part of this initiative, Accenture supports the training of people from underserved communities with the skills required to become Electric Vehicle (EV) Technicians—an in-demand role in this fast-growing sector and for other green jobs. In fiscal 2025, GTT trained nearly 3,500 individuals, approximately 2,400 of whom have secured employment in the EV industry or in other green jobs.

Fueling entrepreneurship through digital innovation

Since 2016, Accenture and Sky’s the Limit have partnered to support young entrepreneurs through a digital platform and skills-based mentoring, business milestone support and opportunities to apply for startup grants. Accenture people volunteer their time as mentors to support budding business owners. Sky's the Limit reported that in fiscal 2025 more than 10,000 entrepreneurs gained skills to help them launch or grow a business, of whom approximately 1,500 started or grew their business.

Supporting refugees

Accenture is helping welcome refugees in the communities where we work and live, and we recognize how they enrich our communities through their courage, strength and talent. We partner with local and global organizations to help refugees around the world gain meaningful employment and start businesses.

Our work in Europe

As part of a pan-European response towards skilling and positioning refugees for meaningful work, we are partnering with organizations across Europe to position refugee job seekers for success.

As a member of the Tent Partnership for Refugees, in 2023 we committed to partnering with organizations to help skill and support an estimated 16,000 refugee and migrant job seekers in Europe. Targeted for 2026, this goal was met ahead of schedule.

YMCA Europe reported that in fiscal 2025 our work together provided more than 6,000 Ukrainian refugees with holistic support and skills training through local community hubs.

People & Planet

We help empower and inspire young people to address pressing social and environmental challenges through our community impact program, Sustainability Education & Action. Together with our partners, we help youth develop skills through action-based learning experiences that drive meaningful outcomes for their communities and the planet.

Sustainability Education & Action

In line with our commitment to upskill future leaders, we are excited to support youth-led innovation through key partnerships, including:

Propelling lifelong learning for Scouts worldwide

We are working with World Scouting to roll out a new Impact Innovators Challenge Badge in 12 countries. This six-stage learning journey aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and equips young people with innovation and creative problem-solving skills to help take meaningful action on sustainability challenges in their communities.

We also supported the digital transformation of the world’s largest digital Scout event, reinventing "Jamboree" for the digital age, enabling record-breaking global participation and introducing gamification, competency tracking, and automatic awarding and delivery of badges to Scouts when they complete challenges.

Supporting youth-led innovation

Through our partnership with UNICEF Generation Unlimited's imaGen Ventures, we engage young people in addressing social and environmental challenges. The organization reported in fiscal 2025 that through this program we supported over 23,000 innovators around the globe participating in the imaGen Ventures Challenge.

Our support includes assessing proposed solutions, mentorship and a workshop focused on storytelling, AI and business modeling. Their innovations include industrial water filtration in Turkey, upcycling e-waste into solar products in Nigeria and biopesticides in Mexico.

Embedding climate action in education

Through our partnership with Take Action Global, more than 70,000 students and teachers across 540 schools worldwide participated in the Climate Action Project. This intensive six-week program fosters critical thinking and problem-solving through project-based learning, empowers teachers to embed climate action across the curriculum, and inspires students to create solutions to real-world climate challenges.

People with Purpose

We are committed to addressing local needs in our communities, offering a variety of ways for our people to act for social and environmental impact, including a wide range of local and global volunteering opportunities.

Acting for impact

In fiscal 2025 we held our second annual Season of Impact, a holistic global participation campaign. We engaged our people globally in volunteering, eco action, social innovation and giving, supporting both social and environmental causes.

During our most recent Season of Impact:

• 149,000+ of our people participated, an 84% increase over last year’s inaugural program
  
  
• 190,000+ hours volunteered in support of social and environmental causes

Actions included:

• In the Philippines, nearly 9,000 volunteers joined a fundraising run in partnership with Save the Children. The effort raised funds to enhance computer learning and infrastructure in local schools.
  
  
• Through our Job Lab school-to-work training program in Italy, Accenture volunteers delivered courses aiming to bridge the gap between education and employment for students.

Our people as social innovators

Our Social Innovators Accelerator provides funding and coaching for innovative ideas developed by our people that have the potential to deliver clear social and environmental impacts. One example is our collaboration with Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab and World Wildlife Fund Germany. Together we are harnessing the power of AI to address the issue of "ghost nets"—abandoned fishing gear that threatens marine ecosystems.