Our firm is playing an active part in Aotearoa New Zealand’s sustainability journey, which is already underway.

We are passionate about helping to shape our country's future, and we believe in using our collective skills, time, and resources to make a positive impact for our people, our clients, our communities and our planet.

To create the sustainable future we want to see, we commit to three pillars built upon te taiao (environment), ngā tāngata (people) and ngā tikanga (practices). These three pillars see us playing our part in a low emission, circular economy; contributing to social empowerment; and using our position as strategic advisers to positively shape our country’s future.

Our Sustainability Strategy 2025+

Our Sustainability Strategy 2025+ reflects our mission to deliver a positive, lasting impact for our people, clients, communities, and planet. Through the pillars of Kia toitū te taiao (protecting our environment), Kia toitū te tangata (caring for people and communities), and Kia toitū te tikanga (leading sustainable business practices), we commit to responsible consumption, reducing emissions and waste, fostering diversity and inclusion, promoting wellbeing, and partnering with clients to embed sustainability into governance and everyday decision-making. Together, we are working toward a low-carbon, equitable future for Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Responsible consumption and production of goods and services 

Underpinning our commitment to positive outcomes for our planet, we have implemented a Responsible Consumption and Production of Goods and Services policy, which contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12. 

We are striving to be net zero carbon by 2050 and are currently working towards external certification.

Partnerships

As part of our long-term commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2050, we are strengthening the way we measure and manage our greenhouse-gas emissions. To support this, we are working with resilience and carbon impact specialists the Lever Room, whose approach is anchored in international best practice and science-based methodologies.

Together, we are implementing an annual programme of comprehensive emissions measurement and analysis across our entire value chain (Scopes 1–3). This process draws on recognised global frameworks, high-quality data, and processes that are rooted in leading climate science.

The Lever Room’s role is to ensure that our emissions profile is accurate, defensible and continually improving, enabling us to make well-informed decisions about where and how to reduce our footprint. They also support our teams in identifying practical, meaningful reduction opportunities and in progressively improving the quality and completeness of our carbon data year on year.

This partnership enhances the integrity of our climate strategy and ensures our progress toward net zero aligns with leading international standards and the expectations of our clients, people and communities.

Our firm helped establish Toitū Tahua and provides ongoing legal advice to the Centre and some of its implementation groups.

We were also the first New Zealand law firm to commit to climate conscious drafting applying the approach taken in The Chancery Lane Project and introduced the initiative to our clients and wider community.

In 2021, our firm proudly became a Living Wage employer, a movement that emerged as a response to growing poverty and inequality holding back New Zealand workers and families. As a firm, we remain committed to paying the living wage. As a firm, we remain committed to paying the living wage.

If you have a strategic proposal about sustainability, please get in touch with one of our experts.