CapitaLand recognised as corporate sustainability leader

Source : Channel NewsAsia - 9 Apr 2009

Property developer CapitaLand has been recognised as a corporate sustainability leader by two international sustainability benchmarks.

It has been included as a component of the newly-launched Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index.

The index ranks the top 20 per cent of the largest 600 companies in Asia Pacific based on long-term economic, environmental and social criteria.

CapitaLand is the only Singapore real estate company in the index.

Separately, it has also been included in the Sustainability Yearbook 2009.

The publication on corporate sustainability identified CapitaLand as a sustainability leader in the real estate sector and it is the only Singapore firm in this year’s ranking.

The Sustainability Yearbook assesses companies according to their economic, environmental and social success factors.

Every year, the 2,500 largest companies in the world are invited to participate in the assessment.

Only the top scoring 15 per cent of companies in each of the 57 sectors assessed are eligible for inclusion in the yearbook.