Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
A healthy global environment supports the growth of economies and communities.
As a firm, we depend on strong and sustainable economies and communities to survive and thrive. We take seriously our responsibility for environmental and social stewardship and are committed to leveraging our people, capital and ideas to further effective market-based solutions that help address critical environmental issues.
Environmental Policy Framework
Our Environmental Policy Framework contains the guidelines we use to guide our clients' actions as well as our own.
Summary of Environmental Initiatives
We put our environmental policies into practice and continue to deliver on our commitments across three areas: our core business, our operations and our thought leadership in global markets. The Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Summary of 2010 Initiatives documents our progress in each of these areas during 2010 and highlights our progress over the past five years since we established the Environmental Policy Framework.
Environmental Markets
Each of our business areas has an important role to play in implementing our commitments under the Environmental Policy Framework (Framework) and contributing to environmental progress. The Environmental Markets Group coordinates and oversees the implementation of our Framework and works closely with each business area to ensure our people, capital and ideas are effectively leveraged.
Workplace Sustainability
Goldman Sachs understands that our responsibility to be good stewards of the environment starts with minimizing the impact of our own operations. We have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2020 and conserving energy use in all of our facilities worldwide. Our recently opened headquarters in New York is LEED Gold certified and our LEED-certified real estate now totals 3.8 million square feet.
Land Conservation in Tierra del Fuego
In partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the most respected conservation institutions in the world, Goldman Sachs has helped to preserve 735,000 acres of ecologically significant land in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, at the southernmost tip of South America.