Our commitment to environmental sustainability

Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and our aspiration is to help build a more sustainable and inclusive future while working in partnership with others.

McKinsey is committed to achieving net-zero climate impact by 2030, and we have set science-based targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative in line with a 1.5-degree pathway.

We are committed to achieving net-zero climate impact by 2030. As a critical milestone on that journey, we have set science-based targets that have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative in line with a 1.5-degree pathway. Achieving these commitments and lowering our firm's carbon footprint requires taking a multi-pronged approach across all scopes.

We are reducing our absolute emissions from vehicles and offices by 25 percent (Scope 1 and 2) mainly through electrifying our firm-owned vehicles, introducing alternative mobility packages, transitioning to 100 percent renewable electricity, and making our global office space more sustainable.

For our Scope 3 GHG emissions (indirect emissions from internal and client travel), we are working towards achieving our validated science-based target of 30 percent per colleague travel reduction by 2025 - mostly through adopting hybrid working models and Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). As a firm, we can and need to go beyond our official target to meet our 2030 net-zero climate impact commitment.

Since 2018, we have been carbon neutral by compensating for all emissions that we have not yet been able to eliminate.

Decarbonizing global business alone will not be enough for the world to reach a 1.5-degree pathway.

The world faces converging environmental crises that are inextricably linked and compounding: climate change and the accelerating destruction of our natural ecosystems. To address these dual crises, we invest in natural climate solutions (NCS). We focus on NCS – in particular, forest protection and reforestation – both to compensate for our remaining emissions and to help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

In 2021, we helped launch the NCS Investment Accelerator, led by the NCS Alliance and co-convened by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the World Economic Forum (WEF), and other leading private-sector partners whose objective is to increase private-sector investment in natural climate solutions.

Partnering with others is key to scaling the solutions we collectively need. We work with our clients, peer organizations, nonprofits, and other partners to support a transition to net-zero emissions, help scale high-impact environmental efforts with nonprofits through pro bono support, as well as embedding sustainability into our processes, encouraging our key suppliers to make their operations more sustainable.

We partner in multiyear projects to support and scale ambitious conservation initiatives that help protect nature and reduce the loss of biodiversity.