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Mission Driven Sustainability Pioneers

Giki is a mission led B-Corp and social enterprise founded in 2017​​

We started with a simple mission – to make sustainability easy. Today, we leverage our expertise to help people and companies take sustainability action.

Giki In Numbers

1,000,000+
Sustainability actions taken
200+
Organisations we’ve worked with
150,000+
People who’ve used our products

Timeline

2016
Making Sustainability Real
'I'm concerned about climate change, but what can I actually do to help?' It's a question our co-founders kept hearing from friends, family, and colleagues. People cared deeply about the environment, but they felt stuck, overwhelmed and unsure where their efforts would make the biggest difference.
Co-founders Jo and James Hand were convinced “if we could make climate action accessible and relevant to people's real lives, we could help them move from worry to action.”
2017
Giki Badges: Making Shopping Easier
We launched our first solution – an app for people to scan their weekly shop to get insights on what they were buying. The first of its kind, Giki Badges helped people understand sustainability and take action through their shopping choices.

The response was brilliant. BBC, including Sir David Attenborough and his team, The Times, Evening Standard, and Daily Mail all featured our work, and it was used by people across the UK.
60,000+ downloads Major media coverage Real behaviour change
2020
Organizations Need Help Too
Giki Zero launched at the Eden Project to help people measure, understand and reduce their personal carbon footprint. High demand from universities and companies led to our employee engagement programme, working with organizations from the Open University, to small businesses and community groups. Giki also helped the BBC Blue Peter team with their carbon calculations.
University partnership Small businesses Community Groups
2021
Employee Engagement Goes Mainstream
Giki Zero is adopted by leading organizations including Arup, Accenture, BCG, Deloitte, Oxford University, NatWest Group, BNY and lots of great SMEs including Cawston Press
Global companies SMEs Over 100 countries reached
2022
Demand And Action Grows
Giki Zero competitions start, hosted by The Commonwealth Games, and companies including Adobe, with participating teams from IBM, Amazon, Cap Gemini, Microsoft and many more.
Giki also gives evidence on sustainability action to the House of Lords Select Committee, and becomes a B-Corp too.
Big Tech partnerships Government recognition Commonwealth Games
2023
Giki Goes Global With The UN
Giki is selected by the UN Race to Zero to run the Employee Race to Zero – making Giki a key part of the largest global movement on sustainability.
Global recognition B-Corp status renewed Employee Race to Zero
2024
A Challenging Year
Cost of living crisis, and geo-politics combine to create a difficult challenge for sustainability. Giki's focus is on delivering results efficiently.
2025
Giki Celebrates 1 Million Climate Actions
To mark this landmark, Giki expands to help small and mid sized companies to take action too. 3 years of deep research into Transition plans, provides a new Sustainability Action Toolkit for SMEs. Giki Actions launches at London Climate Action Week!
Giki also launches a major new partnership with Kaido to deliver best in class employee sustainability challenges.
1 million Actions Over 200 organizations SME Action New improved employee engagement

Founders and Advisors

Our team of global sustainability leaders, impact investors and growth specialists​

Giki board member Paul Dickinson

Paul Dickinson

Giki Chair. Founder and Strategic Adviser CDP, co-presenter Outrage and Optimism, Advisor Persefoni, Chair Mitchell & Dickinson insulation, Advisor Workiva, co-founder Climate Week, Co-Founder, Transition Value Partners and named at Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business.
Giki co-founder James H

James Hand

Giki co-founder, previously co-Chief Investment Officer at Ninety One Asset Management including responsibility for ESG. James specialises in data analysis and architecture and the intersection between carbon footprints and behaviour change.
Giki co-founder Jo Hand

Jo Hand

Giki co-founder, uniquely combines 20 years of carbon footprint and reduction expertise with behaviour change strategies. Previously on CDP Executive team and BBC investigative and current affairs journalist.
Giki board member Dexter Galvin

Dexter Galvin

Scope 3 pioneer, and former CDP Chief Commercial and Partnerships Officer.
Giki board member Madeleine Evans

Madeleine Evans

Growth and Private Equity expert at Generation Investment Management, former ESG head, award-winning impact investing researcher.
Giki board member Michael Strahlman

Michael Strahlman

Member of Board. Chief Growth Officer at Piclo, previously at Deloitte, McKinsey. Mike has 15 years of experience in the energy industry, specializing in business transformation and energy transition.
Giki board member Katie Brewis

Katie Brewis

Member of Board. Leads Google EMEA Finance team. Specialist areas include commercial finance, sustainability, operational transformation and strategy, with a focus on delivering ROI with a pragmatic approach.
Giki board member Paul Robins

Paul Robins

Climate data market specialist.​ Former CDP commercial head specializing in climate and environmental data products.​

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