Driven by our purpose, Deloitte is dedicated to adopting nature-positive solutions

The collective power of individual choices?

As a global organisation 德勤 has >460,000 people around the world. 德勤 understands how individual choices, collectively and incrementally can add up to powerful collective action.

德勤 is committed raising awareness and inspiring collective action internally with our people and externally with clients and regulators & policy makers to drive local and global nature-positive outcomes.?

You can read more in our "Building Better Futures " report.

Accelerating our efforts?

To help address and mitigate our firms’ impacts, we 德勤 are currently developing a global nature and biodiversity strategy while continuing to further accelerate our efforts to support #nature and #biodiversity in the areas of our real estate footprint — analysing our buildings and choices for fit-outs, furnishings, and other elements — to identify opportunities to minimize impacts on nature.

In addition, we 德勤 are evaluating practices across our Deloitte University facilities to provide recommendations on operational and behavioural changes to help protect #nature and #biodiversity.?

德勤 is also addressing our supply chain impacts and implementing measures to promote a sustainable, circular economy. This includes seeking to promote positive nature impacts through more responsible choices.

Taking action around the world?

德勤 firms are advancing a number of initiatives to help protect complex environments and address the particular risks to biodiversity in their regions, including:

• Deloitte Australia owns and manages The Deloitte Carbon Forests, properties that are designed and managed to deliver benefits for biodiversity and local communities, allow for agricultural production, and strengthen Traditional Custodian relationships. Deloitte Australia collaborated with environmental organizations and with Indigenous leaders to help deliver these benefits. The selection for planting focuses on local native species and aims to support the generation of co-benefits, such as biodiversity outcomes, Traditional Custodian engagement and procurement, and dedicated areas for continued agricultural production.
• The?Deloitte Forest project , led by Deloitte Brazil, aims to plant 15,000 seedlings per year through FY2030 in the Atlantic Forest and supports the recovery of basins’ and sub-basins’ watersheds.?
• Deloitte Canada is the first and only professional services firm contributing to the Great Bear Forest Carbon Project , supporting an Indigenous-led, nature-based climate solution that enhances local economic development and employment through community-led guardian initiatives. Revenue from the sale of carbon credits helps enable the communities to protect old-growth forests that are designated for harvest, to secure valuable carbon stores, and to safeguard biodiversity.?
• Deloitte Netherlands and Deloitte Dutch Caribbean are supporting the reforestation of mangrove forests in Cura?ao .??
• Deloitte India is working with a nonprofit organization to conserve and support the nesting habitat of Olive Ridley turtles in Chennai, as well as teaming up with another nonprofit to conduct beach cleanups in Mumbai.?

This past April, 德勤 people from around the world came together to celebrate Earth Month and take action, especially around nature and biodiversity. For example:?

• Deloitte Bermuda people helped clean up a local coral reef, removing trash and other debris and helping to protect the biodiversity of their local ecosystem.?
• Deloitte Kenya, Deloitte Tanzania, Deloitte Canada, and other Deloitte firms across our global Deloitte network participated in reforestation and/or forest care volunteer opportunities.
• Deloitte Costa Rica built pollinator gardens to encourage butterflies, bees, and other pollinators to visit.?

Helping clients prioritize nature?

德勤 advises and service clients in their efforts to assess their impact and prioritise nature and biodiversity. This includes sharing insights and actionable guidance from throughout our organisation, such as:

• Banking on natural capital , a report on unlocking the value of nature and actions that can be taken to work towards a nature-positive future;
• Climate-nature nexus: Expanding finance from climate to nature , a webinar on integrating climate- and nature-related risks;?
• How global nature targets are relevant to business , a blog on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the targets it sets out for protecting and restoring global biodiversity, and three key considerations for businesses;?
• Nature and biodiversity , a podcast exploring what “nature risk” is, how it relates to climate risk, and what businesses should be doing to prepare for nature-related regulation; and?
• Nature is next: Towards integrating nature-related risks in the Dutch Financial sector , an article on how financial institutions can learn about and engage with nature-related risks.?

Navigating digital disruption and embracing generative AI

As the pace of technology continues to accelerate, companies across industries and markets should carefully navigate the powerful pull of technological change. In guiding clients through these times of disruption, we draw on our strong ecosystem of alliances with many of the world’s leading technology providers. From cloud migration to digital transformation, and from AI-driven change to workforce reinvention, the combined power of our deep expertise and alliance relationships helps enable us to deliver solutions that add value at each stage of a company’s journey.

I am very proud, that my firm 德勤 supports nature-positive solutions and lives by it's purpose, to make an impact that matters, in everything we do.

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