Sustainability

Core Pillars Wider commitment to sustainability

Leonardo integrates sustainability into all aspects of our business, decisions, initiatives and projects to create long-term value and generate positive economic, social and environmental impacts for the company and our stakeholders.

Our mission and purpose are to:

"Contribute to the world's progress and safety by delivering meaningful and innovate technological solutions, and to be the international Aerospace, Defence and Security company that best enables its customers' success, by thinking creatively and working with passion."

To achieve these objectives, Leonardo transforms and enriches the financial, human, operational and technological resources available to it and remains committed to the continuous improvement of our business practices and ensuring they are fair and consistent with our core values:

Offering technological solutions for protecting society and the environment
Leveraging our key competencies, know-how and passion
Shaping the future from the perspective of open innovation
Delivering with a customer-centric mindset
Growing with our suppliers and our territories
Conducting business in a responsible way
Implementing transparent, inclusive and meritocratic people management
Promoting respect and valuing diversity
Reducing environmental impacts of our operations
Creating value for all our stakeholders

To achieve these objectives, our sustainability strategy focuses on our key core pillars of People, Planet, Prosperity and Governance. Through these, Leonardo aims to transform and enrich the financial, human, operational and technological resources available to it, and is committed to the continuous improvement of our business practices, ensuring they are fair and consistent with our core values:

People

People drive our business forward. At Leonardo, we recognise that individually and collectively, the actions we take have a lasting impact on our environment. Sustainability and continuous improvement are essential for ongoing success, securing and innovating the future. We identify and invest in future skills and key technologies to better our local communities and ourselves.

Planet

Planet health is now an acknowledged crisis. Tackling climate change is a pressing concern for all of us and Leonardo is committed to reducing our environmental impact through cutting our carbon emissions, seeking innovative solutions and reducing energy use through renewable sources. We are also looking to how our products, components and services can enable greater efficiencies while increasing effectiveness.

Read our Carbon Reduction Plan.

Prosperity

Prosperity will rest on our ability to create sustainable technology and will include the innovation of new products and technologies that will future-proof our industry. At Leonardo, we will continue to invest in digitalisation and advanced processing capacities to enable us to rise to this challenge.

A very important strand of our sustainability activity will be in supporting and mentoring an ethical supply chain – this doesn’t just increase reliability; it provides us with an opportunity to live out our values through ethical business beyond the walls of our company. We will continue to strengthen our bonds with the local communities in which we operate, making real contributions to their wellbeing, future prospects and prosperity.

Governance

Governance is foundational to the delivery of Leonardo's sustainability strategy, looking at both how we operate and how we integrate the pillars of People, Planet and Prosperity into our business. At Leonardo, our approach to Governance comes from Group Directives that conform to EU, Italian and UK law. The Governance process considers human rights, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, as well as business integrity.

In the UK, our Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy and our annual Modern Slavery statement ensure we prevent modern slavery in our value chain, whilst our alignment to the UK Prompt Payment Code ensures we consider the economic sustainability of our supply chain.

Leonardo for Climate Action

Leonardo for Climate Action testifies to our commitment to climate change and illustrates the strategies implemented to counter its effects. It reflect our commitment to climate action, with information about how we evaluate and monitor the risks and opportunities linked to climate change and decarbonisation initiatives.

Sustainability Statement from Leonardo in the UK

In the UK, Leonardo is committed to sustainability as a force for business transformation and a driver of our activities. Our sustainability strategy is set across these core pillars: People, Planet, Prosperity and Governance.

Suppliers – a significant part of our success

Maintaining Leonardo's healthy and productive relationships with all our suppliers is critical to our continued success and operational excellence.

Strong & Diverse UK Supply Chain

Maintaining Leonardo's healthy and productive relationships with all our suppliers is critical to our continued success. We spend approximately £1 billion with nearly 1,700 companies in our UK supply chain annually.

UK Defence ESG Charter

Leonardo is proudly an inaugural signatory of the UK Defence ESG Charter. We are committed to building a stronger, fairer and more prosperous UK, recognising that sustainability is not the responsibility of a single organisation, but an effort requiring collective action.