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Climate & nature

All colleagues, clients and communities are impacted by climate risk. As businesses adapt to a changing world transitioning to a low carbon economy and supporting nature is critical to business.

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Highlighting our environmental sustainability journey

We will continue to transition our business model to align to a low carbon economy by decarbonising our operations to deliver our net zero target by 2045 or earlier.  This will include embedding climate risk and opportunity management into business operations, disclosing progress against our targets, understanding our nature impact and dependencies and maintaining a high standard of environmental management globally.  

Climate and nature

Our pathway to net zero by 2045

The DWF Forest

Located in Broadmeadows in the Scottish Borders, the DWF Forest is an innovative carbon removal project developed in partnership with Climate Impact Partners. Our residual carbon emissions will be absorbed through carbon sequestration over the lifetime of the forest and will contribute to wider positive environmental and social impacts. This includes helping restore nature, protect biodiversity and providing a platform for community engagement and education.
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Featured Reports and Publications

Carbon Reduction Plan
We publish our Carbon Reduction Plan annually to communicate our progress against our pathway and in line with the UK Government public sector procurement requirements under PPN 006.  
 
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ESG & Sustainability Impact Report
For more information on our Responsible Business strategy including progress on our climate and nature ambition, please see our most recent impact report.
 
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Collaborations

 Legal Charter 1.5

We are founder signatory to Legal Charter 1.5, developed collaboratively by a group of large law firms and coordinated by Achill Legal who provide secretariat support.  Since 2023, as founder signatory and participating firm, we have been a member of the Advisory Board, we oversee the strategic direction of the Charter and we also participated and contributed to key workstreams to advance thinking and innovation to support law firms and their clients respond and adapt to the impacts, risk and opportunities provided by the climate crisis and the transition to a net zero future.

Nature Broking

We are proud to be alongside other law firms to form the first UK nature restoration consortium through joining forces with insurance supply chain firms in a 50-year rewilding commitment to create the QBE Buyers Club.  The collective promises to fund rewilding and carbon credit generation at Boothby Wildland, Lincolnshire. It is believed to be the UK's first formal supply-chain-led nature restoration consortium. The participating companies are: insurer QBE; law firms Clyde & Co, DWF, and Keoghs (Davies Group); risk and claims administration partner Sedgwick; claims company Prism Claims Group; accident repair group FMG; and a national salvage dealer.