Our environmental and social sustainability goals are intertwined and enabled by our exceptional approach to governance. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals underpin our strategy and support our integrated sustainability progress. Our sustainability strategy ensures that our firm and the clients we support succeed now, and in the future.

Our clients chose us because we have a unique approach to doing business – we are entrepreneurial and our people bring an unmatched energy and commitment to relationships. This entrepreneurial and energetic spirit is also what enables our vision for sustainability.

Our Sustainability Strategy is centred on the following priority areas

Grant Thornton Ireland recognised for sustainability leadership as recipient of Business Working Responsibly mark

Grant Thornton is accredited with the Business in the Community the Business Working Responsibly Mark. The Mark is the leading standard for sustainability in organisations. It fosters a culture of continuous improvement, ongoing accountability and leadership. The Mark serves as a strategic management assessment framework which facilitates internal collaboration and supports the integration of environmental and social imperatives into core business practices.

Sustainathon

Since 2020, Grant Thornton teamed up with Irish Funds to host Sustainathon, an initiative to help the Irish Funds industry – as a collective – play its part in tackling climate change. This initiative involved entrants from across the Irish Funds industry, working together to identify and propose solutions to the sustainability agenda. The proposed solutions could relate to product innovations, new platforms for engagement, corporate initiatives, use of technologies, or other ideas.