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At Jacobs, we see every day as an opportunity to try and make the world a better place.
As regulation becomes tighter and global scrutiny increases, it's more important than ever we focus not only on what we do, but how we do it. Guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability is at the heart of our company strategy.
We're committed to creating positive impact through every solution we provide our clients, as well as our operational decisions and activities. We recognize that our greatest opportunity to address climate change comes through the sustainable, resilient and nature-positive solutions we co-create with our public and private sector clients around the world.
So, when better than Earth Day to celebrate how we’ve been addressing the climate emergency and recognizing the positive impacts our visionaries, thinkers and doers have been having for our clients, communities and the planet?
Together, we can create a more connected, sustainable world.
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Top 4
Global Leader for Climate and ESG Impact (Environment Analyst, 2023)
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2
Gold Medal Awards received from the World Environment Center
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2025
when we aim for 100% of our projects to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Our people
Every day, #OurJacobs teammates are pushing the limits of what’s possible, working with our clients across a variety of sectors to respond to the climate challenge. From Advanced Manufacturing, Cities & Places, Energy & Environment, Health & Life Sciences to Infrastructure and National Security we’re always looking at ways to make the world better and address climate change. Meet some of our teammates responding to climate change:
Meet some of our teammates responding to climate change
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Amireeta Kumari – Section Lead, Sustainability & Climate Resilience, Asia
A marketer turned management consultant specializing in sustainability and climate resilience, Amireeta has over 15 years advising clients how to integrate sustainability and climate resilience into their business operations and asset lifecycle.
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Justin Phillips – Associate Director for Ports and Maritime
Justin Phillips has spent the last 30 years working in the ports industry. He helps ports optimize operations, achieve decarbonization targets and meet operational and sustainability performance metrics.
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Emma Shen – Global Technology Lead, Energy Optimization & Wastewater Sector Decarbonization
An expert in wastewater treatment plant performance assessments and process upgrades evaluation, process modeling and energy optimization, Dr. Ruqiao (Emma) Shen leads a Jacobs team at the forefront of the global conversation about the paradigm shift toward a low-carbon, low-energy and climate-resilient water sector.
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Jan Walstrom – Senior Vice President, Office of Global Climate Response and ESG, and Enterprise Risk Management
Jan leads Jacobs’ Office of Global Climate Response & ESG as well as Enterprise Risk Management. She’s responsible for driving the company’s Corporate Sustainability and ESG approach, as well as integrating the climate response accelerator that underpins Jacobs’ company strategy across the entirety of business operations.
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Janine Barrow – Global Technology Lead – Sustainability and Climate Action; Decarbonization Strategy Lead, Asia Pacific Region
Janine Barrow leads our sustainability and climate action strategy and growth activities within Jacobs’ Asia Pacific Region — driving innovation, fostering connectivity, attracting and maintaining talent and supporting delivery excellence. She also spearheads Jacobs’ “Net Zero Labs” workshops that help clients establish decarbonization priorities.
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Jhivaun Freeman-Pollard – Senior Director
Jhivaun has spent her 30+ year career to date working on cutting edge nuclear operation, construction, remediation and commercial power projects, including a recent project closing several underground radioactive waste storage tanks and retrieving tens of millions of gallons of radioactive and hazardous tank waste.
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Lene Bjerregaard – Director of Life Sciences Operations for Denmark
Lene is delivering impactful projects for Life Sciences clients in Denmark and across continental Europe, fueled by a passion to help her colleagues reach their full potential and deliver purposeful, impactful projects for Life Sciences clients.
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Graeme Cooper – Global VP, Energy Transition
From developing and operating wind farms across the U.K., to converting his own 600-year-old farmhouse into an “effectively carbon neutral” property, Jacobs Global VP, Energy Transition Graeme Cooper is implementing strategies to reduce his carbon footprint in his personal and professional life.
Our projects
We’re working on iconic projects and programs all around the world that are responding to the climate challenge. Find out more.
“With our future in balance, the time is now to engage our best and brightest – across sectors and disciplines. Addressing the past, we need to continue to remediate environmental damage to the planet we call home. And looking to the coming decades, the planning, commitments and response steps we take today are critical to leading the world to a more climate-resilient existence for all generations to come.”
Jan Walstrom
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Suedlink
We’re helping deliver Germany’s new underground cable connection to transport wind power from northern Germany to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
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Broadland Flood Alleviation Project
The Broadland Flood Alleviation Project is a unique 20-year scheme to improve and maintain 240 kilometers (149 miles) of flood defenses within the Norfolk Broads, one of Europe’s most important wetland areas.
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Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program
We’ve been preserving and fortifying the 100-year-old Embarcardero Seawall in San Francisco, for earthquake safety, flood protection, resilience and sea level rise adaptation.
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Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City Beach, Florida
Since 2019 we’ve been supporting the Tyndall Air Force Base rebuilding program after it was hit by a Category 5 hurricane. We’re using nature-based solutions to enhance coastal resilience while creating important social and environmental benefits.
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Temaiku Land and Urban Development
We’ve been working on delivering a holistic solution to address resilience issues on the island of Kiribati in the Central Pacific. This is the first large scale climate change adaptation development of its kind for small island nations.
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Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF)
Jacobs has been selected by LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) as the progressive design-build contractor for the Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF). The project is a key part of the City of Los Angeles' long-term water management objective to fully reuse its water supplies and is one of the largest potable reuse projects in the country.
Our communities
At Jacobs we believe in investing in local communities not only where our employees live and work, but globally, making a positive impact and living our values.
Bridges to Prosperity
In June 2023, ten #OurJacobs teammates from around the world traveled to Tigano, Rwanda to help construct a footbridge with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) so that residents can safely access critical resources. And we’re heading back to Rwanda this summer.
The Butterfly Effect Program
The Butterfly Effect is a STEAM education program designed to create lasting behavior change and habit formation by providing pupils with the knowledge and understanding they need to put sustainability at the heart of every decision they make as the consumers of the future. Learn more about The Butterfly Effect.