Annual Report 2000/01

Introductory Material

• Our visions, goals and what we do
• Highlights
• Our Guiding Philosophy
• Chairman's report
• Chief Executive's review and our performance as measured by 12 headline indicators
• The planning and reporting framework that we operate within

Key highlights

Highlights include:

• achieving record revenue of $42.75 million, a record operating surplus of $3.55 million, and paid a maiden dividend of $3.5 million. The dividend will contribute to the Government's Venture Investment Fund;
• Sirtrack, our subsidiary based in Havelock North, grew global sales of specialised wildlife tracking equipment to more than $2.2 million;
• initiating EBEX21 (Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange 21) to help organisations offset their greenhouse gas emissions by restoring native forest biodiversity;
• reducing the amount of CO 2 emitted from our activities by 5% compared to 1999/2000. Our electricity consumption was down 4.6%.

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What we do with others - Science

Science making a difference for a truly clean, green New Zealand

Our science is helping in halting the decline of New Zealand's biodiversity, solving New Zealand's worst environmental pest problems, sustaining the quality of our soils, increasing carbon sequestration, reducing New Zealand's ecological footprint, and our science reflects public values and aspirations.Featured work includes:

• the land environments classification - a national framework for reporting on environmental performance and biodiversity;
• experimental studies showing that some species are more important than others in driving the healthy functioning of ecosystems;
• the Visual Soil Assessment - a simple field method for assessing soil quality;
• EBEX21 - native bush and forest regeneration to mitigate CO 2 emissions from companies.

What we do with others - Partnerships

Partnerships making a difference for a truly clean, green New Zealand

This section covers our work with other researchers, stakeholders and collaborators in central and local government agencies, business enterprises and local communities. The section includes:

• collaboration with universities;
• our custodianship of biological collections & natural resource databases;
• partnerships for sustainable business;
• our work supporting sustainable development in aid projects;
• partnerships with Māori and with the community;
• our promotion of science through the news media and the Web and Manaaki Whenua Press.

• our work with Department of Conservation;
  
• Sirtrack (our wildlife tracking subsidiary.)

Supporting material

• Full list of professional recognition for staff 2000/2001
• Usage of databases and collections during 2000/2001
• Web usage statistics

What we do ourselves - Environment

Our environmental performance

Covers our resource use and waste production (including paper use and recycling, electricity use, solid waste composition), our motor vehicle and air travel, our eco-balance (the imputed CO 2 emissions from our activities) and the native forest restoration to offset the emissions, our use of animals in research, animal bycatch in our field work, our use of genetic modification (including to develop a possum fertility control product) and the public acceptance of GM possum control.

Suporting material

• Our environmental policy
• Our environmental management system (EMS)
• The record of EMS incidents for 2000/01
  
• Use of electricity (1995/96 to 2000/01)
  
• Paper use and recycling (1995/96 to 2000/01)
  
• Use of hip-chain cotton (1995/96 to 2000/01)
  
• Air travel data - domestic and international (1995/96 to 2000/01)
  
• Motor vehicle travel data (1995/96 to 2000/01)
  
• Statistics on animals used in research
  
• Biological bycatch data (1996-2000)
  
• Results of public survey of GM possum control
  
• Our submission to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (www.gmcommission.govt.nz)
  

What we do ourselves - Our people

Sustaining our people and their knowledge

Covers our performance as a good employer and describes some of what we do to maintain and enhance human capital. Includes our investment in knowledge, skills and networks, recognition and reputation of our staff (including external benchmarking of our publication rate and most cited papers), recruitment and retention (including staff turnover), rewarding staff (including breakdown of performance-based rewards and market relativities), staff composition, health and safety, and results from an independent survey of staff opinions on key areas of the organisation.

Supporting material

• Full list of awards to staff and invited contributions from staff in 2000/2001
  
• Publications list for 2000/01
  
• Equal Employment Opportunities target group statistics

PSA contribution

• Contribution from the Public Service Association (PSA), the union representing Landcare Research staff
  

Summary of performance against targets

• Performance against targets in the 2000/01 Statement of Corporate Intent
• Performance against targets in our 1999 report on sustainable development

Verification

• Verification statement (covering all non-financial material)
  
• Full verification report 367KB

Financial

• Directors' report
• Financial statements with accompanying accounting policies and notes, and auditors report
• Statement of responsibility

Directory and Producing this report

• The team involved in producing this report
• Directory of research centres, board directors and senior managers

Related Web Sites

• Links to the Top 20 Sustainability Reports from around the world.
• The Global Reporting Initiative was established in 1997 by CERES (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies) to design globally applicable guidelines for sustainability reports.
• The International Corporate Environmental Reporting site contains information about corporate reporting and access to reports.
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK gives awards annually for the best UK and European environmental and social reports.
• The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development is made up of companies committed to a business leadership role as a catalyst for change towards sustainable development. Members have committed to sustainability reporting and are initiating programme, for example, in triple-bottom line reporting, climate change, successful schools.
• The Natural Step is a science-based framework for sustainability which is being used by organisations in several countries.

Feedback

We welcome your comments on this report and any questions you may have on triple bottom line reporting and sustainable business initiatives. Please do get in touch with us: Email

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