As an integrated Marketing and Communication Services group, Ogilvy UK, undertakes a variety of activities that may have an effect on the environment. Those activities include: integrated marketing, research, strategy & planning, creative development, production & execution of TV/Press/Digital/Poster campaigns and media buying for the following businesses located at Sea Containers: Ogilvy, Coley Porter Bell & GTB.
It is therefore our policy to:
* Identify our significant environmental aspects and put in place control mechanisms to mitigate their effects
* Minimise the environmental impacts of our activities, prevent pollution and continually improve our environmental performance
* To protect the environment whilst providing services to our clients, such as safe-guarding both eco systems & biodiversity; utilizing sustainable resources; and climate change mitigation
* Employ systems and procedures that ensure our company's compliance with all relevant legislation and other voluntary obligations relating to the environment
* Promote sustainable development by conserving energy, materials and resources, minimising consumption, maximising efficiency and effectively managing wastes
* Create awareness of our environmental management systems to all relevant employees about the potential impacts from their operations and the use suitable control measures to mitigate those adverse impacts
* Manage and/or influence our supply chain to encourage suppliers to minimise the use of materials, energy or processes which may be harmful to the environment
* Implement this policy through our integrated Environmental Management System & other related business processes which will help ensure certification against ISO 14001:2015 at the same time as taking account of our Environmental Management System
* Set objectives and targets to continually improve our Environmental Management System and our environmental performance and that are compatible with our strategic direction of the overall business and its wider context
* To exercise a positive influence within our sector and for the clients we serve
The participation and co-operation of all employees and sub contractors/freelancers is vital to the success of this policy and that adequate resources are available to maintain this system on an ongoing basis and that our Environmental Management System achieves our stated outcomes.
This Environmental Policy Statement shall be communicated throughout the organisation and will be publicly available to interested parties.
This Policy shall be reviewed annually.
Paul O’Donnell
Chairman
(Reviewed 27th June 2018)