Sustainability
Our Impact
United Nations Global Compact
Creating a positive impact
As a proud participant in the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), Zanders is committed to advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to aligning our strategy and operations with the UNGC’s Ten Principles. This covers everything from human rights and labor to the environment and anti-corruption. To maximize our impact, we focus on the SDGs that are most closely aligned to our regular business activities: decent work and economic growth (#8), reduced inequalities (#10), and climate action (#13).
EcoVadis
Advancing our sustainability credentials
In 2023, we achieved a silver rating in our annual EcoVadis sustainability assessment. This ranks Zanders in the top 15% of our company’s peer group. The assessment focuses on 21 sustainability criteria, grouped into four themes: environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. Our next goal is to achieve a Gold medal, which is awarded to the top 5% of companies. We’re already implementing initiatives to achieve this.
Trees for All
Achieving climate neutrality
Tackling climate change is arguably the defining challenge of our generation. We’re rising to that challenge by setting a bold target to reduce Zanders’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% by 2030 (per FTE, relative to 2022). In the meantime, we are offsetting our GHG emissions with carbon offset credits from Trees for All. These credits support farmers in Bolivia to switch to sustainable agroforestry through the planting of indigenous trees, in combination with coffee, cocoa and other crops, to restore degraded soils. So, as well as offsetting our GHG emissions, this project also positively influences biodiversity and living conditions in that part of the world.
Diversity, equality and inclusion
Accelerating inclusive growth
Diversity, equality, and inclusion (DE&I) are embedded in our DNA. With employees from over 40 different nationalities, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates all different voices. But we also recognize that there’s always room for improvement. We are currently developing a DE&I policy to underline our commitment to this topic. Other initiatives include the measurement and reporting of the gender pay gap, mitigating the ‘unconscious bias’, and creation of more employment opportunities for people with a distance from the labor market through Social Return on Investment (SROI).
ISO 27001
Protecting your data
Today’s sophisticated threat landscape, evolving tech ecosystem and increasingly hybrid workplace demand a more vigilant approach to cybersecurity and mitigating information security risks. The achievement of the ISO 27001 certification and the Dutch Government Information Security Baseline measures (BIO; level BBN2) together gives our clients assurance that we have the governance, systems, and infrastructure in place to protect sensitive data, to maintain the confidentiality of information, and to mitigate potential risks effectively.
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