PEM Values
- Green Growth and Low-Carbon Development: We promote sustainable economic development while minimising carbon emissions, being conscious about the balance of economic development with environmental and social responsibility.
- Healthy Planet for Future Generations:We enhance long-term environmental sustainability, which includes the protection of ecosystems and their biodiversity.
- Integrity & Accountability: We operate transparently, ethically, and responsibly, ensuring trust in all our evaluations, advisory services, and partnerships.
- Collaboration & Global Responsibility: We partner with international and local stakeholders to achieve impact on sustainable development.
- Human Rights and Gender Equality: We are committed to non-discrimination, equal participation at all levels as well as equal opportunities.
Our Commitments: How we act on our values
At PEM, our values are not just words, that is why we actively implement them through different actions.
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Carbon Offsetting Strategy:We are actively reducing our carbon footprint and investing in projects to compensate for unavoidable emissions. Air travel is a major source of GHG emissions, and it represents PEM’s largest environmental footprint. We cannot avoid air travels as it is part of our work, but we are committed to offsetting our carbon footprint. Our Carbon Offsetting Strategy is based on two pillars. The first pillar is that when it is available, we use airlines’ own carbon compensation schemes. The second one is the PEM Carbon Partnership, launched in 2020 for PEM’s 25-year anniversary. The PEM Carbon Partnership offsets carbon emissions from air travel by investing in high-quality initiatives that provide both environmental and socio-economic benefits. Between 2020 and 2022, PEM contributed DKK 25,000 annually to support effective, well-managed carbon offset projects.
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BirdLife Denmark (Dansk Ornitologisk Forening):We are contributing to biodiversity conservation and protecting natural habitats as part of our environmental stewardship. Forests are key to tackling climate change: they act as carbon sinks, regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, and support livelihoods. Birds are vulnerable to climate change, but conservation and nature-based solutions can reduce risks and build resilience for both birds and communities. We support BirdLife Denmark’s program Integrating Livelihoods and Conservation: People Partner with Nature for Sustainable Living (PPN), 2018–2021. With a budget of DKK 15.75 million, the program promotes sustainable, participatory forest management around Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, engaging governments, local conservation groups, and communities to protect birds and their habitats while enhancing climate resilience.
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UN Global Compact:We support internationally recognized principles on human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. PEM is part of the UN Global Compact Initiative, which calls on companies worldwide to align their strategies with ten universal principles covering human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption, while driving action toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You can read more on the 10 Principles of the Global Compact Network Denmark here: https://globalcompact.dk/de-ti-principper
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Transparency International Denmark:Supporting anti-corruption practices in Denmark and worldwide, actively promoting integrity across Danish society and business.
PEM Commitments: How we act on our values
We are actively reducing our carbon footprint and investing in carbon offset projects to compensate our carbon emissions.
Air travel is a major source of GHG emissions and is the main contributor to PEM’s environmental footprint. While air travel is a necessary part of our work, we are committed to offsetting the carbon footprint it generates.
Our Carbon Offsetting Strategy is based on two pillars. First, whenever available, we use airlines’ own carbon compensation schemes. Second, we support the PEM Carbon Partnership, launched in 2020 to mark PEM’s 25-year anniversary.
The PEM Carbon Partnership offsets carbon emissions from air travel by investing in high-quality initiatives that provide both environmental and socio-economic benefits. Between 2020 and 2022, PEM contributed DKK 25,000 annually to support effective, well-managed carbon offset projects. This initiative will continue in the next period, from 2026 to 2029.
We are contributing to biodiversity conservation and the protection of natural habitats as part of our environmental stewardship.
Forests are essential in the fight against climate change: they act as carbon sinks, regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, and support livelihoods. Birds are vulnerable to climate change, but conservation and nature-based solutions can reduce risks and build resilience for both birds and communities.
We support BirdLife Denmark’s program People Partner with Nature – from Local to Global Action, Phase IV (2026-2029) in Tanzania. The program promotes sustainable and participatory forest management around important bird and biodiversity areas, engaging governments, local conservation groups, and communities to protect birds and their habitats while enhancing climate resilience.
We support internationally recognised principles on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Through our partnership in the UN Global Compact Initiative, we align our strategies with its ten universal principles and so contribute to advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). See more here: The Ten Principles | UN Global Compact.
We support anti-corruption practices in Denmark and worldwide, actively promoting integrity across Danish society and business.
