Enabling a sustainable development
Together with clients and partners, we work with sustainability on three different levels:
Conserving and enhancing ecosystems: We safeguard the natural world and its biodiversity by applying advanced predictive tools and practical solutions. Our modelling software, combined with expert advisory services, empowers science-based decision-making.
Tackling climate change and building resilience: We enable our clients to reduce their climate impact through our products and services, supporting climate adaptation and focusing on resiliency for water and environment.
Driving outcomes: We help decision-makers target at-risk areas for intervention, influence strategy or permitting processes and developing accurate predictive models. Our partnerships across sectors, from UN agencies to international donors and academic institutions, drive innovations, extend our reach and allow us to positively influence developments around the globe.
Sustainability focus in own operations
In line with our strategy, DHI continuously works with sustainability due diligence to identify, prevent and mitigate actual and potential negative impacts on the environment and people connected with our business. These negative impacts may be caused by DHI, and they may be directly linked to our own operations and/or our services. Some of these sustainability due diligence actions include internal initiatives for energy reductions and sourcing (own operations) and development of new sustainable and innovative client solutions.
Acting and operating responsibly at DHI means that we are integrating key sustainability parameters into our operations at three main levels; environmental footprint, people, diversity and inclusion, and operational excellence.
Environmental footprint
We continue our efforts to minimise climate impacts and reduce water footprint, ensuring sustainability remains as our business grows. To address residual emissions related to Scope 1 and 2, we have acquired high-quality carbon removal credits. For Scope 3 emissions, specifically air travels, we continue to drive efforts through the internal carbon fee we implemented early 2024, which also raises environmental awareness while supporting both sustainability goals and business needs.
People, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to uniting our organisation and maximising the potential of our global competencies and skills. A key objective is to create an attractive workplace with high employee engagement driven by the overall objectives of developing our people and attracting outstanding talent. We embrace an inclusive culture that recognises and values diversity and prevents discrimination based on gender, nationality, race, religion, etc.
Operational excellence
Rooted in our DHI+ strategy and an overarching focus on enhancing our operational excellence, key initiatives include protecting against data fraud and theft, building strong client relationships and driving market-based innovation. We are guided by our DHI Business Excellence Policy and Code of Conduct in all our actions.
Sustainability governance and organisation
The Board of Directors sets the strategic direction and oversees our sustainability work as the highest authority, while the Executive Leadership Team is accountable for our sustainability process and execution. The work is spearheaded by a sustainability workstream sponsor within the Executive Leadership Team, while ownership and responsibility to drive actions are anchored in a central steering committee representing key functions within DHI to ensure direction, coordination and data collection. Currently, sustainability-related performance is not directly included in the internal incentive schemes for the Executive Leadership Team.
Sustainability reporting
DHI is a signatory to UN Global Compact and committed to upholding the 10 principles of human rights, labour rights, anticorruption and the environment. The information contained in the Annual Report also serves as our progress report on DHI’s implementation of the 10 principles of the UN Global Compact.
Our sustainability reporting connects with DHI's contribution to the SDGs and the principles of the UN Global Compact. Our reporting is structured based on the principles following the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive’s structure for Sustainability Statements.
The key sustainability topics are structured on the basis of ESG issues and KPIs.