Sustainability report 2024 Responsibility and engagement

LGT has consistently expanded its sustainability reporting since we began reporting on the issue in 2012. Regulators have established new standards to harmonise reporting of sustainability topics.  

Since 2023, LGT has been reporting in accordance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards as per the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. This reflects our commitment to responsibility and engagement towards our clients, employees, owners and other stakeholders.

Sustainability strategy 

At LGT, we feel it is our responsibility to help tackle the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and other major, pressing challenges the world faces today. Our goals and our progress towards them are laid out in our Sustainability Strategy 2030. The strategy’s three pillars are Clients & Investments, Business & Operations and People & Society.  

We view climate change as an especially urgent challenge. That is why we have defined the Climate Ambition 2030. This includes the goal of reducing our operational emissions and part of our own investments to net-zero by 2030, as well as measures to decarbonise client portfolios.

 

Net zero by 2030 - this is the ambitious target we have set ourselves as part of the Climate Ambition 2030. In order to achieve it, we are aligning all areas of the company with a view to sustainability. For many years, we have been working intensively to optimize our consulting, our range of products and services, and our operations in terms of sustainability. Some milestones have already been achieved.

The “Net Zero 2030 Ambition” includes all operational emissions and part of the company's own investments. While the NZBA reduction targets for own investments cover all own investments, the “Net Zero 2030 ambition” only covers own investments.