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Social Responsibility

RPS is committed to ensuring that it conducts its business in a responsible and sustainable way.Taking care of our clients, suppliers, employees, the wider community and the environment and conducting operations with a high standard of business integrity are all essential to the success of our business.

The Group requires all staff to adopt high standards of behaviour in their daily professional conduct. Employees are required to be sympathetic to the cultures of and comply with the laws and regulations of the countries in which they operate, also giving due regard to the safety, the well being and the human rights of all project personnel and relevant local communities.

RPS is committed to reducing its carbon footprint and has set itself the task of reducing individual energy consumption by 5% each year using 2007 as the base.This will halve our (per capita) energy use by 2020.

We are involved in many community projects in the countries in which we operate and elsewhere, for example:

at the end of 2007, RPS continued its corporate support for Tree Aid and its educational, tree planting and woodland conservation programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa by making a charitable donation of £12,500 towards its work in Mali, where RPS Energy has worked on oil and gas exploration and mineral extraction studies in recent years. Deforestation in this part of Africa presents particularly acute problems for some of the world's oldest and most vulnerable communities.
we are committing £45,000 per annum in 2008 and 2009 to establish an Urban Design Scholarship working in partnership with the publishers of the Architects Journal and in association with Design for London.The five design scholarships each year will not only contribute to the development of the profession but will directly benefit five very different local communities in London within which each of five scholars will be invited to apply their creative ideas for urban renewal in consultation with local people and other stakeholders.