Sustainability Strategy

Our approach to sustainability

Driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our sustainability ambition

LSEG’s purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. We deliver on our purpose through the products and services we provide and through our wider role in financial markets and society. We have a key role in enabling sustainable economic development, which demands a balance of economic progress, social inclusion and environmental protection.

Given LSEG’s central position within financial markets, its global presence and role throughout the trade lifecycle, we have a critical role in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem, contributing to the global imperative to decarbonise, innovating and growing the green economy, while ensuring that everyone can benefit from sustainable economic growth.

Our ambition is to be a strategic enabler of sustainable economic growth and a recognised sustainability leader in global financial markets.

As we look to 2024, there is more to be done to secure a sustainable future, and LSEG is committed to doing its part every step of the way.

David Schwimmer

Group Chief Executive Officer

Highlights 2023

  • 85%
    Reduction in our Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2023, relative to the target of 50% by the end of 2030 from a 2019 baseline
  • £232bn
    Raised on our Sustainable Bond Market since inception
  • 110
    Companies and funds with the Green Economy Mark
  • 44%
    Of the emissions from the goods and services we buy are from suppliers who have set their own science-based targets
  • 16,000
    Public and private companies on which we hold ESG data
  • 54,614
    Employee volunteer hours
  • 121
    FTSE Russell ESG indices
  • £3.95m
    Grants to charity partners