Morguard Launches Sustainability Report with FSSD principles

I have been primarily working for Morguard, a large Canadian real estate investment and property management company since 2009, as their lead on sustainability and corporate responsibility, and this week we finally released their inaugural 2010-2011 sustainability report! I need to thank numerous colleagues for their guidance and support over the years, I couldn’t have done this solo. Some of you will be excited to see that it might be the first time a large international public corporation has ever include a version of the FSSD/TNS principles in a GRI report! You will also recognize some of the FSSD language built into their sustainability strategy and 25-year goals. It has been a long road over 4 years, through all the strategic planning and training, to implementation, and finally to be able to report significant change and engagement. It took significant work to get the management to be comfortable with public transparency, but in the end they all seem proud of it and have also agreed to a minimum 3 year budget for continuing the annual sustainability reporting program! The report can be downloaded here: http://www.morguard.com/about_us/Sustainability/Pages/Corporate-Sustainability-Report.aspx

The download page requires you to put a name and e-mail address in, but that information is not shared and is just used by me to show Morguard’s management that stakeholders are interested in ESG transparency. Change is happening. The shared language of sustainability continues to spread. Sincerely, Neil