Accenture to Equip 3 Million with Workplace and Entrepreneurial Skills by 2020
March 31 2015 - 07:38AM
Business Wire
Commits to reducing per employee carbon
emissions by more than 50 percent in latest Corporate Citizenship
Report
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) released its 2014 Corporate Citizenship
Report, “Making a Measurable Difference,” which announces a series
of 2020 goals and highlights the company’s efforts to collaborate
with others to improve the way the world works and lives.
Together with its strategic partners, Accenture will equip more
than 3 million people with the skills to get a job or build a
business by the end of fiscal 2020 through its Skills to
Succeed initiative. As a part of this, the company will
increase its focus on the successful transition of individuals from
skill-building programs to sustainable jobs and businesses, and
bring together more organizations across sectors to create large
scale, lasting solutions aimed at closing global unemployment gaps.
Since fiscal 2011, Accenture has equipped more than 800,000 people
with workplace and entrepreneurial skills.
Skills to Succeed helps advance employment and
entrepreneurship opportunities for individuals worldwide. For
example, helping a Bangladeshi woman entrepreneur challenge
traditional gender roles by launching a business and achieving
financial independence or equipping an unemployed young man in the
United Kingdom with a set of technology skills that helped him
secure a job in digital marketing.
Also by the end of fiscal 2020, Accenture will reduce its per
employee carbon emissions by more than 50 percent against its
fiscal 2007 baseline, and begin to measure and report the impact of
its sustainability initiatives with clients and suppliers. Through
its carbon reduction initiatives, Accenture has avoided
approximately 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide between
fiscal 2007 and 2014.
“Our world is moving at an unprecedented pace. Powerful forces –
geopolitical shifts, market volatility, increased competition – are
driving change as never before,” said Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s
Chairman & CEO. “In this environment, we know it is critical to
collaborate with our clients, suppliers and partners to make an
even more profound and measurable difference in our
communities.”
The report also illustrates Accenture’s commitment to advancing
inclusion and diversity among its people and suppliers. The company
aims to grow its percentage of women new hires and develop and
integrate more small, medium and diverse enterprises into its
global supply chain.
“Our people, whose rich diversity helps us better serve the
needs of our clients and communities, are truly the pulse of
Accenture,” said Adrian Lajtha, Accenture’s chief leadership
officer. “By convening innovative partnerships, leveraging
technology and delivering measurable solutions, our more than
323,000 men and women around the world bring the same passion and
rigor to our corporate citizenship initiatives as they do to our
client service.”
About Accenture’s 2014 Corporate Citizenship Report
The report details Accenture’s impact during fiscal 2014
across five areas: Corporate Governance, Skills to Succeed,
Environment, Our People and Supply Chain. Accenture uses Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines as a foundation for its
reporting approach and has self-declared this report at Application
Level B, as checked by GRI. The report serves as Accenture’s
sixth Communication on Progress to the United Nations Global
Compact, which the company signed in 2008, and documents
Accenture’s progress as a member of Global Compact LEAD, which
focuses on raising sustainability performance.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services
and outsourcing company, with more than 323,000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled
experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most
successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help
them become high-performance businesses and
governments. Through its Skills to
Succeed corporate citizenship initiative, Accenture is
equipping more than 3 million people around the world with the
skills to get a job or build a business. The company generated
net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug.
31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
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