Our corporate responsibility and sustainability journey: looking back at 2021

Our responsible business approach underpins our commitment to our people, our clients and business partners, our suppliers, our communities and our planet as well as the long-term success of our company. It is our belief that digital transformation should benefit all of humanity and we strive to be a benchmark in terms of our contribution to society, for our own activities and for those of our clients.

I’m pleased to share Capgemini UK’s latest Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Report, which unpacks the highlights from our programmes of work and provides data summarising our performance.

Against the background of an increasingly turbulent year, we continued our focus on building an inclusive and sustainable future for all. A personal highlight was the work we initiated in 2021 to extend the ambition behind our net zero commitment to align our targets to the Science Based Target initiative’s (SBTi) recently published Corporate Net-Zero Standard. This standard is the world’s first framework for corporate net zero target setting in line with climate science. Previously, there was no shared, robust benchmark. During 2021, Capgemini supported SBTi’s development of the standard as part of their group of companies “road testing” the new framework. I’m delighted that in July 2022 we have been able to announce that our new, updated targets have been validated by SBTi as in line with the standard.

Here’s a few highlights from our 2021/22 report:

Environmental Sustainability

We continued driving our net zero transformation programme…

• A List recognition by CDP for leadership on climate action
• Carbon Travel Dashboard deployed to optimise management of our UK business travel emissions
• 95% of electricity use at our UK offices and data centres was from renewable sources in 2021, as we transition towards 100% renewable electricity
• Carbon Impact Calculator launched, providing our teams and clients insight into carbon associated with our services
• More than 350,000 trees planted during 2021 through our collaboration with Ecologi

Digital Inclusion

We furthered efforts to use the skills and passions of our people to bridge the digital divide…

• Winner at the 2022 Better Society Awards for our collaboration with non-profit CodeYourFuture to offer digital skills training
• 3,400 individuals supported to build their digital skills through our community outreach initiatives
• 2,500 hours volunteered by employees to assist with digital skills education initiatives
• More than 500 young people directly supported as part of our work with The Prince’s Trust to share employability skills and insights into tech careers
• Celebrated hiring our 50^th graduate from our digital academies in March 2022

Diversity and Inclusion

We remained committed to fostering a vibrant and inclusive culture…

• No.1 in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List 2021/22
• Times Top 50 Employers for Women, listed for the fifth consecutive year in 2021
• Ranked as a Top 75 Employer by Social Mobility Foundation’s 2021 Social Mobility Employer Index
• 160 UK employees took part in our race and LGBT+ reverse mentoring initiative, which connects senior leaders with more junior employees to share experiences
• 50% increase in wellbeing health champions, with 185 employees now volunteering

Discover more about our work and progress in Capgemini UK’s Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Report 2021/22.

Looking to the challenges of the future, it is clear that only through continued collaboration between our people, partners, clients, NGOs and local communities, will we be able to build the inclusive and sustainable future we want. We need to inspire new ways of thinking and unleash the energy of innovators.

From my perspective, this means continuing to create inclusive knowledge-sharing spaces within our professional and personal lives, so that everyone is enabled to play their role in addressing climate change and in building communities where all feel welcome.

James Robey

Global Head of Environmental Sustainability

James has led the Capgemini Group’s sustainability agenda since setting the company’s first carbon reduction targets in 2008. He now drives the Group’s global net zero programme to reduce Capgemini’s environmental impacts in line with climate science. James has also brought a client focus to Capgemini’s sustainability vision, establishing a target for the Group to help its clients with their sustainability and carbon reduction goals.