Sustainability

From the way we operate our business, to the sustainable solutions we co-create with clients and partners, we continue to look at ways to make a positive environmental, societal and economic difference for businesses, governments and communities around the world.

Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), PlanBeyond™ is our approach to sustainability — planning beyond today for a more sustainable future for everyone.

As a purpose-led company, we're focused on reinventing tomorrow with solutions for addressing water scarcity and biodiversity loss; transitioning from fossil fuel to clean energy sources; decarbonizing the transport and manufacturing sectors; reducing waste through circular economy innovations; building long-term resilience into critical infrastructure assets; and improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We have developed six Sustainable Business Objectives that sit at the heart of PlanBeyond. These objectives define our aspirations for how Jacobs as an organization and our 55,000+ employees can make a difference in creating a sustainable future for all.

1. Advance the health, wellbeing and safety of society (aligned to SDG 3)
2. Deliver solutions for the global water and sanitation crisis (aligned to SDG 6)
3. Foster a culture of technology and innovation important to the advancement of society (aligned to SDG 9)
4. Create a fair and inclusive future for all (aligned to SDG 10)
5. Develop efficient and resilient solutions that deliver net environmental and societal gain (aligned to SDG 11)
6. Accelerate solutions that address the climate emergency (aligned to SDG 13)

Together, we craft solutions that affect the way people live. From accelerating the next generation of innovators to the world’s first ultra-low emission zone, from helping communities recover to monitoring water quality to protect public health, we solve for better, never losing sight of our responsibility to each other.

Jacobs reports on a wide range of  sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues through our annual ESG Disclosures. We also report on ESG issues via our Integrated Annual Report, Form 10-K, Proxy Statement, and other public materials.

Our disclosures report is focused on the priority ESG data we believe is most relevant to our business and important to our stakeholders, with alignment to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) framework and informed by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. Annually, we disclose to CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) and the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, (CSA), which is the basis for the S&P Global ESG Score and a key factor for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. We disclose our climate risk data in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

We conduct periodic materiality assessments to identify and prioritize the topics on which we focus our strategies and reporting. Our approach considers issues that represent Jacobs’ significant environmental, social, governance and economic impacts; our ability to drive long-term value creation and what is important to internal and external stakeholders. For more information on this process, see our ESG Disclosures.