As Booz Allen recognizes Earth Day this April, the firm is striving toward climate goals well into the future and beyond its own operations.
As Booz Allen recognizes Earth Day this April, the firm is striving toward climate goals well into the future and beyond its own operations.
Our newest commitment: Reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions no later than 2050. This pledge, approved in late 2021 by the firm’s Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Committee and Board of Directors, is the next stage in the firm’s environmental sustainability journey after more than a decade of GHG emissions disclosure. The firm will set verifiable targets for relevant scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions through the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The SBTi independently assesses corporate emissions reduction targets to ensure they keep within what climate science says is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
For Booz Allen, reducing emissions in our own operations and our value chain is only one of the priorities of the ESG Committee’s Climate Impact Initiative.
“Climate change will have significant negative impacts on national security and the everyday lives of people,” explained Booz Allen Senior Vice President and member of the ESG Committee Jennie Brooks, “Booz Allen Hamilton’s Climate Impact Initiative is focused on not only increasing the sustainability of our own operations and making sure we do our part as a corporate citizen, but also how we can use our expertise and position to help our clients and communities do the same.”
Read on for highlights about how the firm is applying collective ingenuity to reduce the negative impacts of climate change.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has identified climate change as a national security threat and is taking actions to identify and address climate-related vulnerabilities.
Booz Allen is helping federal agencies keep this critical infrastructure secure and resilient through climate intelligence: advanced data integration techniques, resilient open data platforms, artificial intelligence and machine learning models, and other capabilities for modeling, analysis, and decision making.
One example of such climate intelligence in action is the DOD Climate Assessment Tool (DCAT). Developed in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DCAT analyzes exposure to physical and operational risks under different scenarios and timeframes for eight climate hazard areas: heat impacts, drought, energy demand, land deregulation, riverine flooding, wildfire, coastal flooding, and historical extremes.
A recent Booz Allen webinar explores how these data-driven tools and advances can achieve a greener planet with healthy natural ecosystems, robust critical infrastructure, and decreased carbon emissions.
Learn more about ESG at Booz Allen and Booz Allen’s climate change work.
