Environmental Policy

JLT remains committed to minimising any adverse impact its businesses have on the environment.

The Group's environmental policy is reviewed each year to ensure that the Group's objectives and targets are achieved.

This year in the UK we will be exploring the possibility of the installation of solar panels on one of our regional freehold properties, which will enable us to produce our own electricity and feed it back into the national grid.

The recycling campaign in our UK offices has continued to be successful improving recycling by over 15% in 2010 compared to the position in 2009.

During 2010, we continued recycling waste paper in all our UK regional offices and are making good progress. All our shredded confidential waste is now recycled and added to our general recycling totals. We continue to work with our UK regional sites to address the different waste streams required by their local authorities.

To encourage employee participation we have deliberately avoided producing lengthy policy documents and have instead agreed ten key commitments set out below. These are also available on the JLT Group's intranet site.

In addition to these Group commitments, local business management is responsible for enforcing standards in line with legal responsibilities and obligations and managing risks associated with environmental matters.

1. Reduce the amount of paper we use by setting our printers to default double-sided printing, where possible
   
   UK paper consumption was reduced by 15 % per head in 2010, compared with 2009, and this figure will continuously improve as more sites remove their desktop and laser jet printers, replacing them with multi-functional devices, which print, scan and copy all in one, these devices are typically also more energy efficient.
   
   
2. Positively encourage employees to think twice before printing emails
   
   Promoting this by adding a short reminder to the end of emails.
   
   
3. Print all future marketing materials and publications on recycled paper wherever possible
   
   All the Group's standard copier paper across the UK comes from recycled sources and from forests managed by the Forest Stewardship Council.
   
   
4. Encourage the use of teleconferencing as the preferred alternative to business travel where practicable
   
   This area will be receiving additional investment and will be the focus of the most up-to-date technology due to the benefits of financial savings and the reductions in our carbon footprint. E-learning will be widely promoted and encouraged.
   
    
5. Limit our energy consumption
   
   In 2010 we have shown a reduction of 5% per person in electrical energy consumption and 4% of gas use per person in the UK.
   
   
6. Develop environmentally sound procurement practices incorporating environmental criteria for supplier selection
   
   All our UK suppliers are vetted through an approved contractor selection system. Part of the vetting criteria is the ability to demonstrate the application of an environmental management system.For example, the supplier used for all stationery procurement in the UK is now a carbon neutral company and has a sound ethical and environmental policy.
   
   
7. Purchase, where practical, more products locally to reduce the environmental impact related to transportation
   
   This requirement is now incorporated into our purchasing process.
   
   
8. Encourage employees to recycle rubbish
   
   For example, in the Group's London offices, employees recycled over 140 tonnes of rubbish in 2010 compared to 110 tonnes in 2009. This process was enhanced by the introduction of a confidential waste paper shredding and a national recycling scheme.
   
   
9. Identify and measure our greenhouse gas emissions and look to introduce a targeting and monitoring scheme
   
   An energy manager has been appointed to prepare environmental performance reports of all the UK buildings where we have control of energy consumption.
   
   JLT has registered with The Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme in the UK in April 2010 and seeks to continue to reduce its carbon footprint.
   
   
10. Seek to raise awareness, encourage and enable our staff to make an effective contribution to environmental improvement,
    
    In the UK this includes a separate staff environmental intranet site which sets out these commitments and progress against targets. The environmental performance targets that have been introduced within the Group are to help ensure that meaningful progress is made in reducing our impact on the environment.