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Our clients are facing increasing and often existential demands around sustainability.
Read more about our energy transition services
Our goal is to help companies meet their 2050 net-zero commitments and accelerate their energy transition.
Energy Transition
We help clients maximize the impact of their carbon reduction efforts.
Climate Change
Discover the full scope of our sustainability solutions
We help companies and industries thrive
with change to create a more sustainable, responsible and profitable future.
Sustainability Practice
We believe bold steps define the future. In 2015, we pledged to invest $1.1 billion in pro bono consulting over 10 years to help leading social pioneers scale and amplify their impact, and in 2025, we announced our new $2 billion commitment to use this investment as a springboard to mobilize the kind of innovative, inclusive partnerships needed to deliver systemic change. Read more about our 10-year, social impact milestone achievement.
Learn about our impact on Africa's food systems
Along with the Global Dairy Platform and Land O’Lakes Venture37, we launched Dairy Nourishes Africa to create a more resilient, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable dairy industry in East Africa.
Supporting Farmer-Allied Intermediaries
See how we take on the global food supply crisis
We partnered with The Nature Conservancy to set up a canned tuna company focused on fair labor practices and environmentally sound operations.
Sea Change: A Bold Partnership to Advance Sustainable Fishing
Read about our work with OneTen
We're a founding partner and member of OneTen, a coalition of CEOs and executives committed to hiring, training, and promoting
1 million Black Americans over the next 10 years.
One Million Jobs in 10 Years
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Our dedication to social and environmental standards starts at home—we embed these values in our firm strategy. Committed to delivering exceptional client results at a lower environmental impact and regularly ranked as one of the best places to work, we take steps every day to reduce our environmental footprint, create a more diverse and welcoming workplace for employees, procure supplies and services sustainably, and practice the highest levels of ethics.
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In February, we named François Faelli as our first-ever global managing partner of ESG, a role that oversees our collective ambition of creating a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive world.
In an industry-leading move, we achieved net-negative carbon status, meaning we purchase sufficient carbon credits funding high-quality, nature-based and innovative carbon removal projects to offset more than 100% of our scopes 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions.
We partnered with world-class universities to develop and deploy specialized post-graduate ESG training for our employees, helping them better advise clients on today’s most critical issues.
We published a series of ESG commitments to accelerate our impact with our clients, with communities and within Bain—including a commitment to embed ESG in 100% of what we do with clients.
In February, we announced Julie Coffman as our first Chief Diversity Officer. Julie has a strong mandate to ensure our global strategy effectively brings together a mix of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills to enable our extraordinary teams and drive value for our clients and firm.
We formed the Diverse Abilities at Bain affinity group in the US and Canada with the intent to expand across the rest of the Americas and the global Bain network.
We accelerated our efforts on building diverse and inclusive teams including formalizing our practice area and committing an additional $100 million in pro bono consulting services focused on racial equity and social justice. We were a founding partner of OneTen, an organization committed to closing the opportunity gap and driving a skills-first movement to unlock career opportunities for talent without four-year degrees.
We furthered our sustainability ambitions by signing the Business Ambition for 1.5⁰C letter and committing to achieve net-zero carbon status by 2030.
We also earned several accolades: listed in Mogul’s Top 100 Workplaces with the Greatest Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, a Gold recognition from India Workplace Equality Index, and Best Employer of Choice for Gender Equality in Australia.
The Asians at Bain affinity group was formally established in the US, continuing a tradition of informal gatherings.
A participant in EcoVadis evaluations since 2012, in 2018 we earned our first Gold rating, the highest award given at the time.
We made a commitment to invest $1 billion in pro bono consulting over 10 years to help our clients, many of them nonprofit organizations, tackle their toughest strategic challenges and achieve their full potential. The size and time horizon of this investment enable us to develop enduring relationships and meaningfully support our clients on the long, hard journey to change.
We were formally certified as a fully CarbonNeutral® company, having measured our global footprint in accordance with international certification standards and achieving net-zero carbon emissions. We’ve been certified carbon neutral ever since.
We formalized our Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility practice to support our corporate clients on their journeys, and we were first in our peer group to launch a carbon emission measurement and offsetting process.
We published A Passion for Social Change, our first annual social impact report.
The Global Women’s Leadership Council was established and held its first Forum.
Latinx at Bain (LATBA), now called Familia at Bain, an organization of Bain professionals in North America with Hispanic and Latin American roots or interests, was formalized in 2008.
We were recognized by Working Mother as one of its 100 Best Companies and remained on the list for the next decade.
We formalized our global Veterans at Bain affinity group. Our focus on veteran recruitment has resulted in an over 20% annual growth rate in our veteran hires over the last five years.
We earned a perfect score of 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. We’ve maintained that score ever since.
Our first Green Team was established in our New York office by two passionate associate consultants. Today, 90% of our employees worldwide have a local office Green Team available to join.
We became one of the 100 strategic partners of the World Economic Forum in its mission to improve the state of the world by shaping global, regional, and industry agendas.
Our BGLAD (Bain Gay and Lesbian Association fo Diversity) affinity group, now called Pride at Bain, officially launched globally with four levels of membership, reinforcing our history of leadership on LGBT policies, benefits, and recruiting.
We also launched The Bridgespan Group, an innovative nonprofit that brings strategic consulting capabilities to the nonprofit sector.
By 2002, we were holding our first annual international BGLAD and Bridgespan Summit.
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Blacks at Bain (BABs) became a formal organization in the late 1980s, after existing informally for years. BABs is primarily focused in North America, but it also includes offices in Europe and Asia.
We’re proud of the progress we continue to make since our founding in 1973.
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SUSTAINABILITY AT BAIN
Certified carbon neutral since 2012 and regularly ranked as one of the best places to work, we strive every day to reduce our environmental footprint, enhance employee well-being, practice the highest levels of ethics and procure supplies and services sustainably.
Our journey to
protect our planet
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We believe that extraordinary teams are fueled
by a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our commitment
to these teams stems from our operating principles, including ‘Diverse Teams One Bain’ and ‘A Bainie Never Lets Another Bainie Fail.
Our journey to build extraordinary teams
We apply Bain talent in partnership with the most innovative and effective organizations to address some of the world's most pressing issues.
Our journey to drive transformative social impact
OUR SOCIAL IMPACT
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2023
In 2023 we published our inaugural Further-authored report, “The Visionary CEO’s Guide to Sustainability,” which explores how leaders can pragmatically navigate a changing landscape.
We also launched our newest affinity group in the Americas, First at Bain -
a community for members who were the first in their family to go to college, do
not have a four-year college degree, or identify with the experience of growing up in a lower socio-economic household.
As part of our journey within Bain, we received a platinum sustainability rating from EcoVadis, which puts us in the top 1% of 90,000+ companies they rated and is the result of our global effort to achieve exceptional levels of corporate responsibility and sustainability.
2022
In February, we named François Faelli as our first-ever global managing partner of ESG, a role that oversees our collective ambition of creating a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive world.
In an industry-leading move, we achieved net-negative carbon status, meaning we purchase sufficient carbon credits funding high-quality, nature-based and innovative carbon removal projects to offset more than 100% of our scopes 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions.
We published a series of ESG commitments to accelerate our impact with our clients, with communities and within Bain—including a commitment to embed ESG in 100% of what we do with clients.
Learn more about how we approach circularity
We guide our clients in developing and scaling solutions through circular design, reducing waste, and more.
Circularity
2024
In 2024, we appointed Jean-Charles van den Branden to lead our Sustainability Practice as the new Global Practice Leader. We also fulfilled our social impact commitment to invest $1.1B in pro bono consulting services over 10 years.
Our sustainability journey took incredible strides. We set a new firm-wide Net Zero target approved by SBTi, published our Climate Transition Plan, and achieved Net-Negative status for the fourth year, validated with a VCMI Carbon Integrity Platinum Claim.
Our programs earned top recognition, including an EcoVadis Platinum rating
and a spot on CDP’s Climate A-List.
Learn more about how we approach circularity
We guide our clients in developing and scaling solutions through circular design, reducing waste, and more.
Circularity
2023
In 2023 we published our inaugural Further-authored report, “The Visionary CEO’s Guide to Sustainability,” which explores how leaders can pragmatically navigate a changing landscape.
