01.01.25

Setting out a plan

For B Corp, Climate Action asks companies to understand and reduce their environmental impacts, contribute to a circular economy, and take responsibility for how their operations and value chains interact with the natural world.

For Here, climate action is inseparable from our role as designers. We help shape choices about what exists in the world and how resources are used. This is where our focus has been to date: building the knowledge, tools and confidence needed to support clients with informed, credible responses to their material challenges, and to help them make social and environmental decisions that are authentic to their brand. And our ambition goes beyond incremental improvement. We actively challenge clients to think differently, to question default systems, and to explore more innovative, circular and regenerative approaches to making. Through our work and with The Beautility Collective, we collaborate with some of the most progressive thinkers in material innovation - using our influence to accelerate better solutions, not just refine existing ones.

This focus reflects where our impact is most material. As a design agency, we don’t operate large supply chains ourselves, but we sit at the centre of influencing the kinds of supply chains, materials and systems our clients choose to use. Alongside our project work, we’ve used our platform to spotlight the brands, partners and material solutions we believe in, helping to promote better ways of doing business.

And our ambition goes beyond incremental improvement. We actively challenge clients to think differently, to question default systems, and to explore more innovative, circular and regenerative approaches to making.

When it comes to our own operations, our approach has long been about reducing impact wherever possible, choosing the better option, even when it’s less obvious or less convenient. Now, we’re building on that foundation by turning intent into a clearer, more structured plan: one with defined priorities, clear, measurable goals, and transparent ways for our stakeholders to understand, support and engage with our climate commitments.

Importantly, this includes recognising that our supply chain, while relatively small, is not insignificant. Over the next year, we’re committing to working with external expertise to better understand our Scope 3 emissions and to assess the environmental impact of our most material procurement decisions, with this work completed by summer 2026.

Impact Summaries

INTENTIONS
  • Act as environmental stewards by understanding and reducing the impacts of our operations and value chain and turning this into a clear Climate Action Plan.
  • Embed circular thinking into design decisions, prioritising durability, reuse, reduced extraction and lower-impact materials.
  • Use our influence to support climate-positive outcomes through our client work, aiming for at least 25% of work to be impact-led.
  • Build shared capability across the studio, ensuring climate knowledge, tools and responsibility are accessible to all.
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Worked with global brands including Bacardi and Natura on purpose-led workstreams; helping shape material, production and lifecycle decisions from the outset, and aligning impact messaging with what is credible and right for each brand.
  • Embedded climate awareness through shared learning, recognising that progress depends on collective understanding rather than individual expertise.
  • Reinforced our mission to ‘Drive Change’ through our Operating Principles, helping individuals centre this behaviour in their day to day work.
THE FUTURE
  • Climate Plan
    • Publish a publicly available Climate Action Plan by 2028, approved by the Governance Team and accessible to all stakeholders. Within this we will;
    • Commit explicitly to supporting the global ambition to limit warming to 1.5°C, aligned with net zero by 2050.
    • Set SMART targets covering emissions measurement, reduction priorities and timelines.
    • Clearly outline how resources (people, tools and time) are allocated to deliver the plan.
    • Define how we will engage with workers, suppliers and clients as part of our climate transition.
    • Commit to review and update the plan at least every 36 months.

  • Procurement Assessment
    • Identify and review the three most material procurement decisions annually, prioritising severity of potential environmental harm over likelihood.
    • Commit to understanding our Scope 3 emissions with an external expert.
    • Focus first on impacts that would cause the greatest harm and be hardest to fix, even if they don’t happen often.
    • Use these assessments to guide supplier choices, production approaches and client recommendations.
    • Establish indicators to monitor animal welfare conditions within relevant procurement decisions

  • Maintaining Impact as Practise
    • Treat climate action as an ongoing discipline rather than a fixed destination, maintaining training, awareness and access to tools year-on-year.
    • At Governance level, measure progress, gather data and then reflect collectively, ensuring climate action remains visible, shared and accountable across the studio.
    • Work towards maintaining at least 25% of our work as impact-led, recognising the role design can play in enabling systemic change.

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