16 July 2021

To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that E3G reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture, and daily operations. We also commit to sharing this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

As a renowned not-for-profit think-tank working at the heart of accelerating climate action, our mission is aligned very much with the SDGs and UN’s climate action agenda. As a small (though growing) not-for-profit enterprise that receives significant funding from philanthropic funders who place transparency, ethics and social responsibility as important standards for their grantees to live up to, it is helpful to be part of the Global Compact initiative and community to affirm our commitment; and be part of a wider learning community of signatories.

Sincerely yours,

Nick Mabey
Chief Executive Officer

• All of our offices comply with local standards to ensure we provide our staff, business partners, and visitors with safe, suitable and sanitary work facilities.
• Our Staff Handbook and Policies affirm our commitment to ensuring we ensure have clear and accessible guidance and processes for dealing with whistleblowing, grievance, all forms of harassment and bullying. All staff are made aware of these during induction and the materials available through our intranet resources.
• We have an independent non-executive board member available to staff, should they feel uncomfortable using internal process.
• We affirm our zero-tolerance approach to inappropriate behaviour through our regular formal enterprise-wide meetings, and capture staff perceptions of our policies in our annual wellbeing survey.

• We exceed minimum wage standards in all of our jurisdictions.
• Where we employ interns sourced through an open application process, we ensure this is always on a remunerated basis.
• Our recruitment process emphasizes formally E3G’s commitment to welcoming and encouraging diversity. We are drawing up continuous improvement plans within our EDI policy and strategy to remove the barriers for under-represented communities.
• We regularly monitor our performance with regard to labour issues as part of our executive and governance processes.

• Delivering climate action in line with the Paris Accord is central to our Mission and raison d’etre.
• As an organisation we are committed to the Race to Zero initiative and committed to monitoring and reporting our own organisational performance. Like many, we have ‘delivered’ significant carbon benefit through the changes imposed on us by COVID in 2020. However, COVID also delayed the formal progress we had planned to make on putting in place systematic monitoring and control of our emissions moving forward. We are returning to this
• We incorporate ESG considerations in our procurement processes.

• “Anti-corruption” and “ethical behavior” policies are included in Staff Handbook and in the contracts we put in place with business partners.
• We assess possible conflict of interest issues arising from our regranting activities.