We have learned so much from our employees, our clients, our suppliers, our partners and from law students whom we have not met yet. Thank you for your honest, unfiltered and constructive views on everything we can improve in the years to come.
This is our first sustainability report and it is the result of a participatory and engaging process where we learned from our stakeholders, we sought inspiration from industry leaders and assessed our strategic priorities for sustainability. Our intention is to report to you our sustainability performance on an annual basis.
One of the things we have learned is that the top #3 priority areas that matter to our employees are exactly the same as those that matter to the law students we surveyed, as well as being widely mentioned by our clients. This has informed the three priority areas of our sustainability strategy, giving us comfort that we are tackling the right issues: (i) mental health and well-being, (ii) responsible business and (iii) diversity and inclusion. Our commitments in these areas span short-term objectives as well as long-term ones.
From a performance standpoint, we adopted the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines to report our sustainability performance across economic, social and environmental metrics. Starting in 2020, our ambition is to annually improve on these dimensions, which purposely overlap with our three key strategic priorities. We reaffirm our commitment to the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact, which guide the vast majority of our initiatives, and help us define increasingly ambitions goals.
Through my learning journey on the topic of sustainability, one thing has been unequivocal from the beginning: as a law firm, we have the rare opportunity to drive sustainability both internally and externally.
Internally, we have the opportunity to transform the legal profession to tackle taboo topics such as mental health and wellbeing, which have affected so many of us. We also have the capacity to be an industry that leads by example in positioning diversity and inclusion as anchor elements that define the workplace of today.
Externally, we have the responsibility to advise and support our clients and partners, who, collectively across our industry, have the ability to take gradual steps that can yield exponential changes in the most exciting economic opportunity of our times: building a sustainable and equitable global economy.
We only have nostalgia for the future and the road is ahead of us. Our commitments are defined, and our utmost commitment is to work hard every day to deliver on them.