Our ESG Services

It’s more important than ever for organisations to adopt environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) commitments, and take action to deliver a better world. We’re here to partner with you at every stage, from concept to design and delivery.

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Our Strategy

With ESG principles embedded into everything we do, the goal of our Sustainable Legacies strategy is straightforward: to ensure that the way we run our business, and the work we do in partnership with our clients, leaves a positive, lasting impact for communities and our planet.

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Embedding sustainable development and resilience across​ our work
When our planet thrives, we thrive.
The time to act is now

Increasingly severe climate events and the pandemic have shown that achieving resilience is an urgent and strategic imperative for cities, governments and organizations - including our own. Climate science also makes it clear that for development to be viable, it must be sustainable. That's why we’re embedding net zero, resilience and social value targets into all our work - and why we developed ScopeX™ to reduce carbon impacts by at least 50% on major projects.

We're already making steps

We're committed to a more sustainable and resilient future, partnering with those who want to make a positive difference in the world. The first step is to understand the base level we are working from - that's why we're measuring key ESG impacts through our operations and projects. The next step is embedding key targets - on net zero, resilience and social value - across our work, then actioning those.

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Our commitments to embed sustainable development and resilience across our work

These key commitments will ladder up towards achieving our bigger ESG goals and our broader aim of delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come.

1. To solve for carbon using ScopeX™, our AECOM platform for designing out at least 50% of carbon on major projects
2. To align with our clients’ ambitions, increasing the depth and breadth of our ESG and Sustainability services each year
3. To work with clients and partners to drive innovation in climate change, sustainable design, social value and governance
4. To embed net zero, resilience and social value targets into our client account management program and the work we bid for
5. To measure key impacts such as carbon emissions, climate resilience and social value on client projects
6. To support our clients to follow the ‘Mitigation Hierarchy’ of first aiming to avoid damage to biodiversity, then minimizing, restoring, compensating, or offsetting any unavoidable damage.
7. To support our clients to achieve nature-positive outcomes in developing and implementing their projects, by promoting nature-positive infrastructure.
Progress against this commitment

ScopeX approach in use and evolving

Our ScopeX approach brings our skills in carbon reduction together with digital tools and data to meet our ambitious carbon reduction targets. Currently in use and evolving, it provides options to optimize carbon use based on location, situation, construction methods, operations approaches, cost, logistics, materials and energy. Client and project data are analyzed in a database what will help us to refine client support service.

1. To solve for carbon using ScopeX™, our AECOM platform for designing out at least 50% of carbon on major projects

Progress against this commitment

Launch of our global ESG advisory services led by Robert Spencer, Global Head of ESG Advisory Services

Our ESG advisory services are helping senior leaders across a range of businesses direct the future of their businesses to account for increasing environmental and social risks. Our offer spans the entire lifecycle from organization-wide strategy through to the detail of the project-level technical ESG services required to deliver on our clients' ambitious visions.

2. To align with our clients’ ambitions, increasing the depth and breadth of our ESG and Sustainability services each year

Progress against this commitment

Advancing our PlanEngage platform

We continue to develop and improve our PlanEngage platform to streamline the environmental and stakeholder engagement process and to ensure our clients are able to demonstrate positive value to the communities we serve.

3. To work with clients and partners to drive innovation in climate change, sustainable design, social value and governance

Progress against this commitment

Investing in our professionals through ESG-specific training programs

We have developed an ESG-specific training program that is required for all employees so that all of our teams are able to best advise their clients on key sustainability issues.

4. To embed net zero, resilience and social value targets into our client account management program and the work we bid for

Progress against this commitment

Embedding ESG considerations into project rationale and operations

In addition to the traditional measures of economic return and job growth, we are now measuring key ESG impacts through our operations and projects. In the medium and long term, we need industry standards, which is why we are leading a taskforce on ESG measurement and transparency at the former Prince of Wales’ Sustainable Markets Initiative.

5. To measure key impacts such as carbon emissions, climate resilience and social value on client projects

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