Highlights of our 2020 identifying and speaking up about racism; and zero waste and plan for water risk. This includes progress across the focus increased community investments to support committing to power our offices with 100% areas of the UNGC economic inclusion. renewable energy; engaging key suppliers to reduce their emissions; and equipping our people Making progress on gender equality to make climate-smart travel decisions. We are now 45% women, on track to meet our Committed to climate action: Caring for our people in challenging times gender-balanced workforce goal by 2025. We Committing to responsible procurement Our talented people are our most important source also achieved our goal of 25% women managing Our ambition is to create supply chains that are UNGC Business Ambition for 1.5° Pledge of competitive differentiation. After the global directors by 2020 and set a new goal of 30% more sustainable and more inclusive. We met our pandemic was declared, we quickly enabled about by 2025. 2020 goal—ahead of plan—to engage 75% of our • We’ve joined 400+ companies in 95% of our people to work remotely, as we ensured pledging to do our part to keep global suppliers in disclosing their environmental targets warming below 1.5° Celsius. their safety and well-being. Our commitment to Skilling our people in the digital economy and actions, and we set a new goal of 90% by Science-based target helping them be their best both professionally and 2025. We also achieved our goal of graduating personally has never been stronger than in this We invest nearly US$900 million annually in 170 suppliers from our Global Diverse Supplier • We are the largest professional time of compounding crises and disruption. continuous learning and professional development services company to date to have opportunities that are customized to ensure our Development Program and set a new goal of 250 a target approved by the Science Based people remain highly relevant. In fiscal 2020, this graduates by the end of fiscal 2023. Targets initiative. Reaffirming our stand against racism included upskilling more than 70,000 people Achieve net-zero emissions by 2025 In the face of more tragic losses of African in hot skill areas, such as cloud. We seamlessly Living our core values • We’ll focus on actual reductions in our American and Black lives in the United States, redesigned our digital learning platform and Our governance structure and Code of Business emissions and will invest in nature-based we reaffirmed our unwavering commitment delivered 6% more training hours, while reducing solutions that will remove carbon from Ethics are designed to help ensure that our the atmosphere. to equality for all, with zero tolerance for training costs by 11%. people live our core values, and we are proud that discrimination, bigotry or hate of any kind. We Ethisphere recently recognized Accenture as one announced new goals for increased race and Setting the pace on net-zero and environment of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the ethnicity representation in the United States, th We set three new industry-leading goals: to 14 consecutive year. the United Kingdom and South Africa; new, mandatory training to support our people in achieve net-zero emissions by 2025, move to United Nations Global Compact: Communication on Progress 2020 | 4