Operating more sustainably to reduce impact on the environment is the responsibility of every company, so we have taken positive action to improve the way we do business. By ensuring we fully understand climate change, making a contribution to environmental causes and collaborating with businesses to create honest and transparent storytelling, we're committed to change.
We work with these independent and trusted environmental bodies to hold ourselves accountable for our actions and to ensure our green claims are what they say they are.
Select First is a Certified Signatory of The Anti-Greenwash Charter. We were the first independent marketing agency to fully make the commitment to produce independently verified communications and operate a Green Claims Policy. This ensures Select First is a trusted source of sustainability communications.
Ensuring your sustainability communications are independently verified establishes trust, helping you to mitigate the risk of growing mistrust in companies and their environmental claims.
We commit to clear communication of what sustainability benefit product or service offers and don't conceal or omit information.
We substantiate sustainability claims with accurate and regularly evaluated empirical evidence. We commit to sharing facts, figures and statements that can be checked.
We commit to using fair, clear and unambiguous language when providing comparisons with other products or organisations.
We ensure we make specific statements about our organisation's sustainability efforts and that our actions match those promises.
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1% for the Planet is a global network with thousands of incredible businesses and environmental organisations working together to support people and the Planet.
Founded in 2002 by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, and Craig Matthews, founder of Blue Ribbon Flies, the movement was born on the idea that a company has a responsibility to give back for use of our Planet's resources.
As a member of 1% for the Planet, Select First donates 1% of its annual revenue to environmental causes. Membership of the network underlines our commitment to taking action to operate more responsibly and have a positive impact on the environment.
The Carbon Literacy Project has helped over 150,000 individuals to become carbon literate. Everyone at Select First has undergone training to ensure their knowledge of climate change supports your marketing and communications by understanding the complexity of operating your business more sustainably.
We have also worked worked with the Carbon Literacy Project to establish training for our clients. If you would like to find out how we can help just get in touch.
Get involvedSelect First is part of the Clean Creatives community. We are proud to be one of 1,500 agencies that have pledged not to work with fossil fuel clients and to lead our industry into a better future.
Our pledge:
"Our agency will decline any future contracts with fossil fuel companies, trade associations, or front groups."
