In June 2022 we launched a long-term partnership with social enterprise and registered B Corp Giki. Giki works with companies to encourage their employees to get involved in promoting sustainability in their personal lives and actions. We funded global access to Giki’s user-friendly web-based platform and mobile app, allowing users to understand, track and reduce their carbon footprint by completing a range of ‘sustainable steps’. We also deployed Giki as a learning tool, promoting their custom webinars which provide educational content and sharing their articles around specific practical areas.
In the last financial year, we ran three firm-wide challenges with Giki, encouraging and supporting colleagues to focus on key areas for environmental action with sustainable prizes awarded to the winner. Examples include a five-day food waste reduction challenge and a plastic detox involving steps such as switching to reusable coffee cups, not buying clothes for three months and litter picking.
With 175 colleagues now using the platform, over 450 sustainability steps have been undertaken with an estimated saving of over 25 tonnes of CO2e – the equivalent of driving approximately 125,000 miles in a family-sized car.
As a result of the above challenges and other Giki initiatives, colleagues have also saved over 4,500 items of single-use plastic and 500,000 litres of water – the equivalent to running around 5,000 baths.
“Participating in the Giki plastic detox challenge showed me that small steps count and there are lots of ways to reduce plastic in day-to-day life. During the challenge, I planted my own vegetables and reduced the use of plastic water bottles. Giki is helping me continue to develop practical sustainable habits at home and at work”.
Litsa Dimitriou
Legal PA, Athens
