Our three pillars
Inclusive growth
Environmental transition
Responsible business
Our aims and objectives
Climate and nature impact
Driving meaningful reductions in the environmental impacts of our business.
This page focuses on our operational impacts. You can find out more about how we approach climate change through our investments in our latest Sustainability and TCFD report (PDF).
Our operational climate objectives
We are a global business helping our clients to plan, save, and invest for the future. Our environmental impacts reflect this, as we keep offices and work flexibly to better deliver for our global clients.
Our operational emissions intensity is comparatively small versus the intensity of the investments we manage on behalf of our clients, but we are committed to play our part in driving meaningful reductions in our reported emissions.
We are targeting operational net zero by 2040 and working towards a 50% reduction in reported emissions by 2025 versus our 2018 baseline.
Our emissions target includes Scope 1, 2, and Scope 3 categories – but we still have more to do to collect data for some material Scope 3 categories, such as emissions related to our supply chain. We are working to develop a more complete picture of our Scope 3 data and will report transparently on our related impacts and progress.
In 2024, we remained on track to meet our interim objective of a 50% reduction in reported operational emissions by 2025. We reported a 74% reduction versus our 2018 base year. This reduction continues to be driven largely by a fall in our business travel since 2018 and office consolidation.
The nature of our business means that our largest source of operational emissions relates to where we work, and how we connect with our clients and colleagues.
We are therefore focused on reducing the energy use in our offices and need to drive long-term reductions in business travel.
Our priority is to reduce our impact in absolute terms, with the elimination and reduction of emissions.
Below is a chart illustrating our operational emissions (tCO2e) from the past two years and our baseline year broken down by scope and category. For further information, please visit this year's Sustainability and TCFD Report.
Recognising our nature impact
Our objective operationally is to play our part in protecting and enhancing our natural world.
We approach this through the Aberdeen Group Charitable Foundation, our employee engagement programme, including our colleague networks and volunteering policy and through active management of sites and offices.
We recently became a Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) adopter, building on our early membership of the TNFD Forum and our commitment to the Finance for Biodiversity pledge.
Further considerations of our impacts on nature - both operationally and through our investments - is available in our 2024 Sustainability and TCFD report (PDF).