Since our founding, Winkler Partners has aimed to reduce our negative impact on the natural environment, while looking for meaningful ways where we can create positive impact, both in our immediate community and further afield. In 2006, we established a Green Office Department, to coordinate office greening by implement methods to reduce our energy usage, promoting the use of environmentally friendly products and services, collecting rainwater, reducing our carbon emissions and advocating for green office initiatives throughout our community by way of open visits to our office and roof garden. As part of that commitment, we will be publishing annual reports on our progress. At a glance, in 2019 we managed to:

• Reduced our total emissions by 70%. Our total emissions for 2019 were 13 tons CO2e.
• Generated 12,545 kilowatt hours of electricity via our solar panels, accounting for 17% of our total electricity needs.
• Purchased green energy credits covering the remaining 83% of our electricity. This means that 100% of our electricity is sustainably sourced.
• Reduced gas usage by 30% and water usage by 16%. We collected 25 tons of rainwater, used to irrigate our gardens and flush our toilets.
• Reduced overall waste by 12%, including paper cup and bento box waste by 27%. Paper use increased by 2%.
• Offset our international travel emissions, which in 2019 were 62 tons. We do this through a fellow B Corporation, Climate Care.
• Planted 3,555 trees, roughly the carbon capture equivalent of our 2018 emissions, or 42.7 tons.