ESG Report 2022 single pages web - Flipbook - Page 4
Message from our CEO
We are delighted to share our
first standalone Environmental,
Social and Governance Report.
Over the past year we have made significant progress in
becoming One RWS where:
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We strive to create a world where understanding is
more universal for everyone.
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We are a proud of our diversity and celebrate our
cultural and technical expertise which enables us to
share our deep understanding of client industries and
local cultures.
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We understand we need to reduce our carbon
footprint to ensure the future of the planet.
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We are focused on ensuring that combination of
technology and cultural expertise helps our clients
grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere,
in any language.
For RWS, our corporate sustainability pillars – our
people, our community, our environment and our
governance – are at the centre of our purpose to unlock
global understanding. It is who we are. It is what we do.
Our purpose of unlocking global understanding is
evident throughout our 2022 ESG Report, and we
share the progress we have made on our sustainability
targets and initiatives. Our engagement with all our
stakeholders has continued to increase and, in particular,
important strides have been achieved in diversity, equity
and inclusion, health and safety, and well-being, via our
Group-wide pillars.
We have partnered with a number of community
organisations, have undertaken fundraising aid for
Ukraine, and progressed our focus on education
partnering with over 700 universities and sponsoring
50 language students via the RWS-Brode Scholarship
programme. We continue to contribute to important life
safety work in our Regulated Industries division, have
undertaken segment analysis for a major technology
company to help protect its reputation and brand, and
continued to incubate immature languages through the
RWS Language Lab.
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RWS — ESG Report 2022
OVERVIEW
We know that people and their actions are at the root
of climate change and we are working towards setting
science-based targets which will be validated by the SBTi.
We have committed to reducing our carbon emissions
by 55 percent by 2030 using FY22 as a baseline year, and
report using the Task Force for Climate-related Financial
Disclosures (TCFD) framework.
I am pleased to confirm that RWS supports the Ten
Principles of the United Nations Global Compact on
human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
We are committed to making the UN Global Compact
and its principles part of the strategy, culture and dayto-day operations of our company, and to engaging
in collaborative projects which advance the broader
development goals of the United Nations, particularly
the Sustainable Development Goals.
I am proud of the work we have accomplished to date
and am excited about our strategy going forward as
we continue to live our purpose in ‘unlocking global
understanding’ and seek to shape the future and strive
to keep our promises to our clients, colleagues and
communities.
All our achievements to advance our ESG agenda
would not have been possible without the continued
collaboration and engagement of all our colleagues and
partners.
Ian El-Mokadem
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
14 December 2022
