Environmental Stewardship

We acknowledge that our operations have an impact on the environment, and we commit to implementing measures to mitigate those effects. To do so, we continuously seek opportunities to engage our members, collaborate with clients and partner with conservation organizations.

Our areas of focus are waste management, energy consumption, business travel and commuting. Examples of the initiatives McInnes Cooper has implemented include:

• Conducting a baseline analysis of our annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, and recalculating Scope 1 & 2 emissions on an annual basis.
• Partnering with a local sustainability company that has established a reforestation / forest stewardship project that enables us to counter-balance a portion of our carbon footprint by investing in a recommended number of trees. In 2024, we sponsored 2,940 trees to offset 50% of our scope 1 & 2 emissions from 2023.
• Supporting grassroots renewable energy projects, including the installation of solar panels on the Dalhousie Schulich School of Law Weldon Building and a solar panel awning at the Hope Blooms Community Kitchen.
• Supporting land conservation organizations: the Nova Scotia Nature Trust, the Nature Trust of New Brunswick, The Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Aquatic Conservation Initiative.
• Planting/sponsoring more than 21,500 trees since 2014.
• Participating in volunteer projects, such as the Great Fundy Coastal Cleanup and the McNabs Island Shore Cleanup.
• Implementing digital filing tools and duplex printing defaults, reducing our annual paper usage by 7.5 million sheets compared to 2010.
• Adopting a set of Responsible Purchasing Guidelines.
• Introducing sustainable coffee machines that use biodegradable pods and packaging.
• Offering a firm-wide public transit subsidy and participating in the SmartTrip XPass program in Halifax.