Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

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Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

Corporate responsibility is the view that a corporation ought to deliver social and environmental dividends while pursuing its primary economic interests.

This should be done within a governance framework that legitimises and renews a company’s rights and licenses to operate.

Corporate responsibility reporting is the accounting and disclosure of a corporation’s performance in relation to these activities.

In a sustainable society, corporations optimise the development of economic, social, environmental and governance capital to produce diverse community dividends.

Crucially, the process of creating these dividends does not deplete non economic forms of capital.

This guide provides a template for measuring and disclosing a property company’s performance in the course of delivering sustainable outcomes.

A simple portrayal of the links between a corporation’s public activities and its reporting obligations is shown below.