Communication on green issues is a key issue within the Group. Not only do we believe in communicating our performance, but more importantly our aim is to get staff, tenants and visitors to the estate engaged on green issues.
Reporting
Since 2001, Canary Wharf Group (CWG) has issued an annual Environmental and Social Report. The report was renamed the Corporate Responsibility Report in the 2008 edition.
CWG’s objective in producing these reports is to demonstrate its performance against targets set the previous year, as well as to cover a range of social and environmental issues relevant to its business. The reports illustrate CWG's management approach to environmental and social issues and demonstrates, through analysis of performance, how this has become integrated into its business operations.
The data presented covers all business operations of the Group and measures our performance against annual objectives and targets. In 2009 we achieved 85% completion of targets up from 80% in 2008, 77% in 2007 and 59% in 2006. The report and performance against objectives and targets is independently verified by Bureau Veritas.
Engaging Others
We believe that technological advances are not the only method of reducing our effect on the environment. We recognise that the behaviour of our staff, tenants and visitors is an integral part to our aim to be more sustainable. Internally, environmental awareness training is compulsory for all our staff and covers ways in which they can make a difference, such as energy reduction, waste management and awareness of green issues both in the workplace and at home.
Sharing best practice is important to us and to that end we chair a quarterly environmental liaison group meeting which all tenants are welcome to attend, where we discuss green issues affecting the estate and the companies on it and environmental events. Externally we are members of the Better Building Partnership which is a group of the largest property development companies in London who are committed to sharing new ideas in technology, design, construction and property management.