{"id":25228,"date":"2022-04-22T08:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alcumus.com\/?post_type=insight&p=25228"},"modified":"2023-02-21T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:32:37","slug":"earth-day","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/www.alcumus.com\/en-us\/insights\/blog\/earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Earth Day (Again) \u2013 What Does it Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year\u2019s Earth Day<\/a> will be the 52nd<\/sup> anniversary of a day when growing numbers of people around the globe have paused to think, or taken a moment to act, to limit their impacts on the planet or to take positive steps to improve it. First marked in 1970, after American Senator Nelson saw the devastating effects of a Californian oil spill, Earth Day mobilized 200 million people in 141 countries within two decades and now reaches around a billion people in more than 190 countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth Day always falls on 22nd<\/sup> April and it offers us two significant opportunities \u2013 first, to change our personal actions to limit or improve our environmental impacts; second, to use our professional roles to help our organizations do the same. <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The first one is important, but the second one has the potential (literally) to change and safeguard our very existence \u2013 at a time when a new Google Cloud Survey<\/a> suggests that up to 90% of executives see environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives as their organization\u2019s top priority. Indeed, two-thirds are willing to grow their business in a way that is more sustainable for the planet, even if it means lower near-term revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Alcumus, our ESG program \u2013 Healthy Planet, People and Business \u2013 was built around the sustainability factors that mattered most to our people. We asked them what they cared about most, what they wanted to tackle and how that related to our goals. Our core purpose is to help organizations become safer, healthier and more responsible through risk management technology solutions, so it\u2019s crucial that we also operate in that way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not just on Earth Day, but all year-round, we\u2019re committed to tackling climate action by cutting our greenhouse gas emissions. Linked to our thought leadership work<\/a> in Glasgow at COP26, we\u2019re shaping our Science-Based Target and our pathway to Net Zero<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across Alcumus, our people have also been promising to do One Small Thing \u2013 a program of hundreds of individual pledges to change their behaviors or actions to improve their impacts on the environment, on communities or on the economy. We match each of those pledges with a tree-planting too \u2013 for double-benefit \u2013 and to continue building both biodiversity and carbon capture across the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These actions all link with the work we\u2019re doing to help our customers build more sustainable organizations too \u2013 through solutions like our ESG technology tools, and with thought leadership collateral like our Climate Action Pack<\/a>. Wherever possible, we try to make it as simple as possible to get started on that journey to action, or to ramp up the progress if you\u2019re already on the way \u2013 and emphasizing how much of an opportunity this offers for wider benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So \u2013 for us \u2013 this Earth Day means a chance to take stock of all that we\u2019re doing and see what else we could do, both as individuals and as a collective organization. With our people across the world, in the UK, in North America and in New Zealand, we\u2019re all ultimately linked by a shared tomorrow. That\u2019s part of your tomorrow too, so (as we said at the start) could you do just One Small Thing differently on Earth Day 2022 that would join up with many others to make a big difference? <\/p>\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\t\n\t\t

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