GPM Global · Policy Document · Updated March 12, 2025
This policy establishes GPM’s commitments to regenerative environmental practice across its operations, partnerships, and consulting engagements. It applies to all GPM staff, Accredited Training Partners, and third parties acting on GPM’s behalf.
GPM distinguishes regenerative practice from conventional sustainability on the basis of outcome: where sustainability aims to reduce harm, regeneration aims to restore and improve the condition of natural systems over time. Each section below identifies both the commitment and the disclosed evidence that the commitment is being met.
Progress against all commitments is reported publicly through GPM’s annual UNGC Communication on Progress, GRI 2021 Report, and CDP Climate Disclosure. All reports are publicly available at gpm.org.
GPM targets net positive carbon impact — removing more carbon from the atmosphere than its operations produce. Net Positive Carbon status was achieved in 2025 and independently verified under ISO 14064-3:2019 and the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. The target is maintained as an ongoing operational commitment, not a one-time achievement.
Forward commitments
| Maintain Net Positive Carbon status annually with third-party assurance of all emissions and removal data. |
| Prioritize Scope 3 reduction over offset, with annual reduction targets disclosed in the UNGC CoP. |
| Expand nature-based removal through reforestation, soil restoration, and direct air capture investments, with a minimum of 2,500 trees planted in 2025. |
| Integrate carbon-reduction criteria into procurement and supplier selection through the PMI-GPM P5™ Standard assessment framework. |
| Publish the Regenerative Carbon Methodology Framework in 2026. |
As a service-based organization, GPM’s direct water consumption is limited. GPM’s primary water impact is through the projects it supports and the professionals it trains. Water stewardship requirements are built into project evaluation criteria under the PMI-GPM P5™ Standard and into supplier engagement conditions.
| Apply WASH principles (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) in all project areas where GPM provides consulting or capacity-building support. |
| Require supplier compliance with water stewardship policies as a condition of engagement, assessed through annual due diligence. |
| Integrate water risk assessment into project sustainability evaluations conducted under the PMI-GPM P5™ Standard. |
| Support watershed restoration through conservation partnerships, with progress disclosed in the annual UNGC CoP. |
GPM applies a no-net-loss standard to biodiversity in its own operations and requires biodiversity impact assessment in major consulting engagements. The reforestation component of GPM’s carbon removal program contributes directly to habitat restoration and biodiversity outcomes.
Forward commitments
| Apply nature-positive design principles, including no net loss of biodiversity, to GPM-supported project engagements. |
| Require biodiversity impact assessments for major projects where ecological impact is a material risk. |
| Disclose biodiversity-related risks and outcomes in alignment with TNFD requirements, beginning with the 2025 reporting cycle. |
| Expand reforestation and habitat connectivity through GPM’s Ambassador Program, with a 2025 target of 2,500 trees planted. |
Circular economy principles are embedded in GPM’s consulting methodology through the PMI-GPM P5™ Standard. GPM supports client organizations in achieving circular certification through its organizational assessment programs and tracks client outcomes publicly.
Forward commitments
| Apply waste reduction and material recovery principles to GPM’s own operations and events. |
| Eliminate single-use plastics across GPM offices and GPM-organized events. |
| Require circular economy compliance as a condition of supplier engagement. |
| Continue building client capacity for circular certification through GPM360°, PSM3, and OSEM assessment programs. |
Responsibility for this policy rests with the GPM Executive Leadership Team, with Board oversight through the annual governance scorecard. Environmental performance is reviewed quarterly. All disclosures are public, cross-referenced, and where applicable independently assured.
All reports are publicly available at gpm.org. This policy is reviewed annually and updated to reflect changes in applicable standards and GPM’s operational context.
GPM’s engagement on regenerative practice operates through training, organizational assessment, supply chain standards, and international policy participation. All figures below are from the 2025 reporting year.
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GPM suppliers and partners are required to take reasonable steps to ensure that this Code of Conduct is communicated, understood, and followed throughout their organizations. It must be made available to their employees and applied throughout their own supply chains. This Code applies to all organizations that supply goods or services to GPM, participate in GPM’s partner programs, or engage with GPM or the PMI-GPM Joint Venture on behalf of clients.
All suppliers and partners must comply fully with competition laws applicable to them, including antitrust laws in the United States and equivalent laws in all jurisdictions where they operate. GPM requires that all suppliers and partners conduct their business in full compliance with laws intended to promote free and fair competition. This includes refraining from price-fixing, market allocation, bid-rigging, and any other arrangements that interfere with market forces.
Suppliers and partners must respect GPM’s intellectual property, trade secrets, and other confidential, proprietary, or sensitive information, and may not use or disclose any such information except in accordance with their agreement with GPM. This obligation extends to assets of the PMI-GPM Joint Venture where applicable.
Information regarding GPM’s operations must be treated as confidential unless it enters the public domain through no fault of the supplier or partner. Obligations include:
| Not disclosing GPM confidential information to individuals within the supplier’s or partner’s organization except on a strict need-to-know basis. |
| Not disclosing GPM confidential information to organizations or individuals outside of the supplier’s or partner’s organization. |
| Not using GPM content — including standards, guides, course materials, templates, or website content — to train, fine-tune, or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence or machine learning system, without prior written permission from GPM. |
| Not using AI tools to reproduce, generate, or imitate the GPM logo, GPM trademarks, or PMI-GPM Joint Venture marks in any form. |
Honesty and integrity are conditions of doing business with GPM. Procurement decisions are based on objective criteria including price, quality, service capability, and demonstrated ethical conduct. GPM requires all partners and suppliers to adhere to the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles and to conduct all business transactions with integrity.
GPM has zero tolerance for bribery and kickbacks in any form. Suppliers and partners are required to enforce the same standards within their own organizations and supply chains.
GPM is signatory #107 to the UN Global Compact Anti-Corruption Call to Action and is committed to working against corruption in all its forms, including bribery and extortion. This commitment applies in every country where GPM and its suppliers and partners operate.
GPM’s policy, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UN Convention Against Corruption, the UK Bribery Act, Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (COFPA), and equivalent laws worldwide prohibit giving, offering, or promising money or anything of value — directly or indirectly — to any government official to influence any governmental act or decision, or to assist in obtaining or retaining business.
GPM suppliers and partners must:
| Not act in any way that violates the FCPA or any other anti-bribery or anti-corruption law in any jurisdiction. |
| Use only sub-suppliers that do not engage in bribes, kickbacks, or other unlawful payments. |
| Maintain internal controls adequate to detect and prevent corrupt conduct within their own organizations. |
Compliance with anti-corruption laws is a legal obligation. Non-compliance exposes GPM to reputational, administrative, civil, and criminal consequences, including investigations, fines, loss of contracts, and blacklisting. Supplier or partner non-compliance will be treated as grounds for contract termination.
Suppliers and partners must provide a safe and healthy work environment for all employees at their sites. This includes complying with all applicable occupational health and safety laws, identifying and mitigating workplace hazards, and maintaining processes for employees to report safety concerns without fear of retaliation.
GPM suppliers and partners must adhere to all applicable trade, export, and import regulations covering their activities, including those issued by the US government and by the governments of all countries into which they import goods or materials. Where trade compliance questions arise in connection with a GPM engagement, contact
GPM does not do business with any supplier or partner known to use forced labor, child labor, involuntary servitude, or any form of exploitative or abusive labor practice. GPM’s Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking Policy applies to all suppliers and partners as a condition of engagement.
Suppliers and partners must:
| Ensure their own operations are free from forced labor, child labor, discrimination, and physical punishment or abuse. |
| Uphold freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining for all workers. |
| Take appropriate steps to ensure their own sub-suppliers do not engage in any of these practices. |
| Complete and return GPM’s annual Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking Policy affirmation as a condition of continued engagement. |
GPM suppliers and partners must comply with all applicable environmental laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where they operate. This includes requirements related to emissions, waste management, water use, and hazardous materials.
GPM’s Environmental Regeneration Policy establishes commitments to net positive carbon impact, water stewardship, biodiversity protection, and circular economy practice. Suppliers and partners are expected to align with these commitments to the extent applicable to their operations:
| Maintain a zero-deforestation procurement policy across their own supply chains where applicable. |
| Disclose material environmental risks and incidents that may affect GPM or joint project engagements. |
| Engage with GPM’s P5 Standard-based environmental assessment process for major project engagements where GPM is acting as a consulting or delivery partner. |
| Comply with circular economy standards as a condition of supplier engagement, including responsible procurement and material recovery practices. |
Suppliers and partners who process personal data on behalf of GPM, or who have access to GPM systems or customer data, must do so in accordance with GPM’s instructions and in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the EU GDPR, UK GDPR, PIPEDA, and the CCPA/CPRA.
Suppliers and partners processing personal data on GPM’s behalf must:
| Enter into a data processing agreement with GPM before any personal data processing begins. |
| Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, or loss. |
| Not use GPM personal data to train, develop, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning system. |
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GPM expects its suppliers and partners to have in place reasonable and appropriate systems through which allegations of wrongdoing may be investigated and remediated. Suppliers and partners must fully investigate allegations of wrongdoing with respect to this Code within their own organizations.
A supplier or partner must notify GPM in writing immediately upon becoming aware of any adverse event, investigation, or publicity concerning the supplier or partner, any product being supplied to GPM, or any circumstance that could reasonably be expected to cause negative publicity or reputational harm to GPM. Notification should be sent to
It is the responsibility of each supplier and partner to ensure that its employees and representatives understand and comply with this Code of Conduct. Compliance is a condition of the supplier or partner relationship with GPM.
Failure to adhere to this Code may be grounds for terminating the supplier or partner relationship, depending on the seriousness of the violation and the particular circumstances. GPM reserves the right to audit supplier and partner compliance with this Code as a condition of continued engagement.
For questions about this Code of Conduct or to report a concern:
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GPM Global · Policy Document · Updated February 2025
GPM recognizes digital sustainability as an operational component of its broader environmental commitments. GPM’s digital ecosystem spans multiple platforms, each carrying an environmental impact through energy consumption, data storage, and content delivery. This policy establishes GPM’s approach to managing that impact across infrastructure, design, AI use, hardware, and user engagement.
GPM’s digital sustainability commitments are:
| Minimizing the digital carbon footprint of GPM’s infrastructure and design practices. |
| Implementing energy-efficient technologies across websites, services, and data operations. |
| Ensuring digital equity and accessibility, making sustainable digital solutions available to all users. |
| Providing users with information on low-energy digital habits that reduce collective emissions. |
Cloud and data efficiency practices:
| Prioritize low-energy cloud storage and green cloud computing providers across all GPM platforms. |
| Regularly delete or archive unused and duplicate digital assets to minimize storage impact. |
| Work toward serverless architecture to reduce idle energy consumption across infrastructure components. |
GPM applies sustainable web design principles across its digital properties:
| Auto-play is disabled where possible to reduce unnecessary bandwidth consumption. |
| Static images, SVG animations, and lightweight graphics replace videos where appropriate. |
| Video encoding is optimized to minimize file sizes without reducing content quality. |
| Site structure is designed to reduce unnecessary navigation, ensuring users reach information in fewer steps. |
| SEO practices are optimized to reduce server load and the energy cost of repeated search queries. |
GPM applies the following practices to reduce the energy and environmental cost of AI use across its operations:
| Minimize AI-driven processing through use of low-energy algorithms and efficient tool selection. |
| Avoid unnecessary data collection to reduce cloud storage and computing overhead. |
| Require that AI tools used internally operate under appropriate data processing agreements aligned with GPM’s privacy obligations. |
See also: GPM Commitment to Responsible AI Use
| All digital interactions comply with GDPR, CCPA, and applicable global privacy frameworks to prevent unnecessary data storage and processing. |
| Unused data is regularly audited and deleted to optimize storage efficiency and reduce the energy footprint of data retention. |
| Encryption is implemented using efficient, low-energy techniques that balance security and sustainability requirements. |
See also: GPM Privacy Policy · GPM Data Protection Policy
| GPM applies circular economy principles to all digital devices and IT hardware, consistent with its Environmental Regeneration Policy. |
| Technology lifecycle planning ensures equipment is responsibly sourced, maintained, and recycled or repurposed at end-of-life. |
| Staff are expected to extend device lifespans by prioritizing software and configuration optimizations over hardware replacement where feasible. |
| GPM works with partners to offset the e-waste impact of its digital operations and to source hardware from vendors with verified end-of-life programs. |
GPM provides users with practical information on lower-impact digital habits. The following practices reduce energy consumption at the user level and collectively reduce the load on GPM’s infrastructure:
| GPM partners with sustainable technology organizations to support innovation in green IT. |
| Research, tools, and case studies on digital sustainability are made available through GPM’s open-access resources. |
| GPM advocates for carbon transparency in digital services, consistent with its UNGC Communication on Progress and CDP Climate Disclosure. |
| GPM conducts regular audits of its digital platforms to verify efficiency, accessibility, and environmental performance. |
| Digital sustainability performance is disclosed as part of GPM’s annual Scope 3 emissions reporting, with data on digital infrastructure included in the CDP Climate Disclosure and UNGC Communication on Progress. |
| Emerging digital sustainability standards are reviewed annually and integrated where applicable into GPM’s operations. |
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This policy establishes GPM’s commitments to fair employment, labor rights, and safe working conditions. It applies to all GPM employees, contingent workers, and suppliers and partners acting on GPM’s behalf.
GPM’s employment and labor practices are governed by the following principles, consistent with UN Global Compact Principles 3–6 and applicable national and international labor law:
| Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. |
| Prohibition of forced labor, bonded labor, and child labor. |
| Equal employment opportunities and non-discrimination. |
| Safe, healthy, and flexible working conditions. |
| Fair compensation and access to professional development. |
GPM supports the right of employees to freely associate, organize, and engage in collective bargaining without intimidation or retaliation. This right is guaranteed through policy and through supplier contracts where applicable.
| GPM maintains structured forums through which employees can raise concerns, share input, and negotiate working conditions. |
| GPM does not interfere with lawful union activities or employee organizations. |
| Where collective bargaining applies, GPM engages in good faith negotiations on wages, working conditions, and employment terms. |
GPM maintains a zero-tolerance policy for forced labor, bonded labor, and child labor across its operations and supply chain. In 2025, zero incidents of forced or child labor were reported across GPM operations and the supplier network.
| All work at GPM is freely chosen. Employees have the right to terminate employment upon reasonable notice without penalty. |
| GPM does not confiscate passports, work permits, or other personal documents as a condition of employment. |
| Anti-forced labor training is provided to employees, management, and suppliers to support identification and elimination of risk. |
| Regular supply chain due diligence is conducted to verify supplier adherence to GPM’s Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking Policy. 100% of suppliers affirmed compliance in 2025. |
GPM’s employment practices are designed to support equitable career development, meaningful work, and professional growth across the organization.
GPM prohibits discrimination in all aspects of employment. No employee or candidate will be treated less favorably on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
| GPM enforces zero tolerance for harassment, bullying, and retaliation in the workplace. Confidential reporting channels are available to all employees. |
| GPM actively promotes diversity in leadership and equitable access to growth opportunities across all levels of the organization. |
| Equal pay practices are embedded in the Employment and Labor Rights Policy and applied across equivalent roles. |
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Health and safety compliance GPM complies with all applicable health and safety regulations. Workspaces are maintained to be safe, hazard-free, and ergonomically appropriate. Safety training, risk assessments, and emergency preparedness are provided to all employees. |
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Flexible work arrangements GPM operates on output-focused work structures, with remote work options, flexible scheduling, and alternative arrangements available where role requirements permit. Working arrangements are assessed at the individual and team level. |
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Mental health and well-being GPM provides access to mental health resources and well-being support. Workload expectations are managed to avoid systematic overwork, and concerns can be raised through confidential channels. |
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Compensation standards All employees are compensated at or above applicable living wage benchmarks for their location. Compensation is reviewed regularly to ensure alignment with market conditions and internal equity. |
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Performance reviews Employees are assessed based on contributions, impact, and professional development. Regular performance reviews include career mapping discussions to align individual development with organizational needs. |
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Recognition Employees demonstrating excellence, leadership, and sustained contribution are recognized through structured programs that include advancement pathways and performance-based incentives. |
GPM’s employment and labor rights commitments are reviewed annually alongside its broader sustainability and governance disclosures. Performance against these commitments is reported publicly through the UNGC Communication on Progress and the GRI 2021 Sustainability Report.
This policy is reviewed annually by the Executive Leadership Team and approved by the Board of Directors. Concerns or reports relating to labor rights may be submitted to
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This policy establishes GPM’s commitments to upholding human rights and combating trafficking and modern slavery across its operations, supply chain, and partnerships. It applies to all GPM employees, contingent workers, suppliers, and third parties acting on GPM’s behalf.
GPM’s approach to human rights is grounded in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (established June 16, 2011). The Guiding Principles provide the framework through which GPM identifies, prevents, and addresses adverse human rights impacts arising from its operations.
GPM is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, the UN Business for Peace Initiative, and the UN Anti-Corruption Initiative. These commitments inform GPM’s integration of human rights considerations into all business activities and governance structures.
GPM prohibits all forms of human trafficking, forced labor, and modern slavery. This prohibition extends to all aspects of GPM’s operations and supply chain. The following measures give effect to this prohibition:
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Absolute prohibition No form of human trafficking, forced labor, bonded labor, or modern slavery is permitted in GPM’s operations or in those of its suppliers and partners. This applies without exception. |
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Employee training All GPM staff complete human rights and anti-trafficking training within 90 days of onboarding and at regular intervals thereafter. Training covers identification of risk indicators and reporting procedures. Completion is tracked and verified at 100% annually. |
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Supplier contractual obligations All supplier contracts include provisions prohibiting forced, compulsory, or trafficked labor. Suppliers are required to enforce equivalent standards with their own sub-suppliers. Annual affirmation of compliance is required from all suppliers as a condition of continued engagement. |
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Active collaboration GPM engages in partnerships and collaborations with organizations working to combat human trafficking and modern slavery, consistent with its UNGC commitments and advocacy activities. |
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Enforcement Where GPM identifies an individual or organization that fails to comply with anti-trafficking or anti-slavery standards, it will take decisive action, including termination of the business relationship, in accordance with applicable law. |
GPM’s President and Executive Leadership Team are accountable for ensuring this policy is implemented effectively across all levels of the organization. This policy is reviewed annually and updated to reflect changes in international human rights standards and applicable law.
Progress against human rights commitments is reported publicly through the UNGC Communication on Progress (Principles 1–2 on Human Rights; Principles 3–6 on Labor) and the GRI 2021 Sustainability Report (GRI 401–409). The Framework Crosswalk document maps these commitments across UNGC CoP, GRI, and CDP disclosures.
Concerns relating to human rights or trafficking may be reported to GPM through any of the channels below. Reports may be made anonymously.
Reporting Channels
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| Data and privacy |
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