Most relevant Accenture ESG High priority SDG targets relevant for this area: material issues: Path to Net-Zero • Climate Change & Carbon Emissions • Enabling Clients’ Sustainability IN THIS CHAPTER: • ESG Management • Responsible Buying Helping our clients achieve • Water 9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization… 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity their goals • Waste, including e-waste to climate related hazards and natural disasters in • Nature, Biodiversity & Wildlife 12.2 Achieve the sustainable management and efficient all countries. use of natural resources. Reducing our footprint 13.2 Incorporate measures to fight climate change 12.5 Substantially reduce waste generation through into policies, strategies and planning. Most relevant Principles of prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse. Engaging our people the UN Global Compact: 17.16 Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi- Environment stakeholder partnerships… • Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to Relevant second priority SDGs: environmental challenges; • Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and • Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies. United Nations Global Compact: Communication on Progress 2020 | 33