Climate change and environmental sustainability: MOJ
How the Ministry of Justice is embedding sustainability throughout our estate and operations.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has the second largest estate and operations across government departments and has many different types of buildings including prisons, probation centres and courts, and we manage 4,000 hectares of land.
Our challenge is to deliver our justice outcomes while transforming into the climate resilient, resource efficient organisation required of the future.
The MOJ climate change and sustainability strategy outlines our greener justice vision, and describes how we will make our operations resilient to climate change, promote resource efficiency and help nature across our estate.
Our transition also has the potential to add value far beyond reducing our direct impacts on the environment. Many prisons promote environmentally focussed jobs and training, providing a recruitment pathway for offenders into the green economy on their release.
Community Payback activities target environmental work such as tree planting, which provides visible justice and improvements to local communities, while also supporting the government’s Environmental Improvement Plan goals.
Through our courts and tribunals, we are modernising and designing simpler services by introducing digital processes that are built around the needs of the user, which are improving access to justice and legal services, while reducing the need to travel to courts and reducing paper use.
Corporate documents
MOJ has a number of technical climate and environmental strategies, policies and plans that enable our greener justice vision.
The following documents provide further guidance to our management, employees and supply chain partners.
Technical strategies and plans
- Climate change and sustainability strategy
- Net zero carbon strategy
- Climate change adaption strategy
- Circular economy strategy summary
Corporate performance
MOJ’s annual progress and performance on our resilience, efficiency, the greening government commitment targets and United Nations sustainable development goals, and progress against the Taskforce on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework, is reported in the MOJ’s annual report and accounts:
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2024 to 2025
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2020 to 2021
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2019 to 2020
- Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2018 to 2019