Gilbert + Tobin has a proud community-conscious track record on environmental issues.

We are a Climate Active certified carbon neutral service and carbon neutral organisation. 

We achieved this certification with carbon credits from Qianbei Afforestation in the Guizhou Province of China and the Chudu Afforestation in Henan Province of China which involves planting native species on barren lands for greenhouse gas removal whilst contributing to local sustainable development goals, and the Cefn R&D Biogas Project, a piggery methane project located in Queensland, Australia .

We also source carbon credits from the Aboriginal Carbon Foundation’s (ACF) Fish River Fire Project, a savanna burning carbon project in the Northern Territory, Australia. The ACF is a national Aboriginal-controlled not-for-profit company working towards a sustainable Aboriginal carbon industry.

Our efforts to reduce emissions from our operations across our Sydney, Melbourne and Perth offices also include switching to energy efficient office and IT equipment, reviewing and removing printers, and switching to digital filing and signing.

Please refer to our sustainability policy for more details on our approach and commitment to environmental issues.

We are a member of the Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA), working collaboratively to improve sustainability in the legal sector. As members of AusLSA we commit to the AusLSA Principles:

• Measuring, managing and reducing the environmental impact of our operations.
• Working with external stakeholders to reduce our indirect environmental impact.
• Integrating awareness of sustainability across our business.
• Working collaboratively to engage in the public debate on sustainability to develop, apply and promote best practice across the sector.
• Reporting on our progress and being accountable.

We report our environmental impacts annually to the AusLSA. See our most recent AusLSA environmental profile here.

We maintain an AusLSA certified Environmental Management System and are committed to continuously improving our environmental performance.

We are a CitySwitch Green Office program signatory since 2007 (formerly the 3CBDs Greenhouse Initiative), a government initiative supporting businesses on their journey to net zero. It a national program delivered locally through participating councils. Our participation in the CitySwitch Green Office program includes annual carbon emissions reporting, attending signatory workshops and engaging with fellow signatories who are also working through the challenge of reducing gross emissions.

We undertake an annual National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) assessment to measure the energy efficiency of our tenancies in Sydney and Perth. We maintain a 6-star NABERS (Energy) Tenancy rating in Sydney,a 5-star NABERS (Energy) Tenancy rating in Perth and a 5-star NABERS (Energy) Tenancy rating in Melbourne.