Core SDG
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS OBJECTIVE
5. Develop efficient and resilient solutions that deliver net environmental and societal gain
Increased urbanization drives economic growth, but these metropolitan areas are also responsible for more than 70% of global carbon emissions and 60% of global resource use. With significant funding about to be channelled into infrastructure globally through pandemic recovery stimulus packages, there is an urgent need to prioritize resilient and sustainable infrastructure that embraces technology, natural capital and the circular economy, puts society’s needs first and is focused on sustainable outcomes.
What we’re focused on
We provide comprehensive infrastructure, technology and intelligence solutions to help create resilient and sustainable communities around the globe. We focus on improving outcomes across our infrastructure planning and design work, working with our clients to coordinate across programs and sectors to deliver resilient and sustainable places, rather than individual projects.
We also work internally to create opportunities in the sales and project delivery lifecycle, designing in sustainable outcomes as part of our offering. Further, we foster partnerships with leading-edge companies to meet increasing needs and client demands for greater positive development impacts worldwide.
» Target
100% of Jacobs’ solutions will contribute to progress against the UN SDGs by 2025
What comes next
- Provide resilient infrastructure solutions tools to sales and operations teams to drive resilient outcomes into client engagement and delivery.
- Update our project delivery process to ensure sustainability design is factored into all of our solutions.
- Continue internal training on biomimicry principles and participation in Project Positive to increase regenerative solutions for clients.
- Transform our office spaces to reflect new ways of working and, in doing so, optimize operational efficiencies.
- Initiate sustainable building design for Jacobs’ flagship innovation laboratory in Warrington, U.K.
We have established a strategic partnership with Biomimicry 3.8 (B3.8) to offer Positive Performance, an assessment and innovation methodology created by B3.8 to help develop and integrate regenerative best practices, improving the health and wellbeing of ecosystems and communities.
Janine Benyus, B3.8 co-founder and Time Magazine’s Hero for the Planet Award winner, said: “Delivering on this level of sustainability vision requires bold partnerships, which is why it’s so exciting to see B3.8’s first-to-market Positive Performance methodology paired with Jacobs’ first-in-class implementation.”