GHD has been a signatory to the UN Global Compact since 2010. The UN Global Compact supports companies to do business responsibly by aligning their strategies and operations with 10 Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. These principles require that businesses should:
Launched in September 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) consist of 17 ambitious goals dedicated to improving the wellbeing of present and future generations. The SDGs aim to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges through the promotion of sustainable development.
The introduction of the SDGs provides GHD the structure for continual improvement of our Sustainability approach and identify opportunities to further lift our contribution to the SDGs in partnership with other organisations. We have mapped the SDGs that we can most directly help to achieve, against our material issues.
Our Sustainability Policy highlights SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) as those SDGs where we believe we can have the greatest impact.
The pillars of GHD's Sustainability Policy are identified below. Select each of the pillars to illustrate how our approach links to the UNGC Principles and SDG’s:
We understand our risk appetite and manage our business to maximise opportunities by identifying and managing material risks to an acceptable level in accordance with a risk management framework
We commit to our values and policies. This is reflected in the way we manage our business and interact with our clients and our people.
We connect our people with a healthy, safe, diverse and rewarding career path. Our people feel valued and secure in their workplace.
We care by minimising our ecological impact through resource efficiency and nature conservation initiatives, and by supporting communities through development initiatives and our GHD in the Community program.
We create opportunities for our clients to enjoy prosperity and achieve sustainability goals with innovative ideas that embrace our sustainability principles.
