Sustainability: what we do
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Our sustainability reporting for 2008 was checked by GRI, who confirmed it met the GRI application level A. This year to ensure we remain at the A level, we have again used the same sections, same processes and same indicators with all information reviewed and updated. |
Welcome to our sustainability web pages
A year ago, we moved to web-based sustainability reporting because it enables us to report more comprehensively and put the impacts of our own activities into greater context with our sustainability aims and our research – science for sustainability.
Our sustainability reporting started in 2000, and from 2001 until 2007 it was fully integrated with our Annual Report. Our thinking has continued to evolve, and last year (2008) we adopted a more concise approach to paper-based annual reporting supported by extensive information here on the website. We have maintained this approach.
We continue to see sustainability as a journey and look forward to documenting that journey through these web pages. We expect web-reporting to be more dynamic, allowing more timely response to emerging issues; and we will use it to make stronger connections between our own performance and our research, science and technology.
The “Voices for Sustainability” section is a place for invited voices to reflect on material issues and to challenge both our own thinking and that of others. The section includes seven contributions (‘thinkpieces’) from New Zealanders prominent in their own fields, a piece from professor Jan Bebbington (University of St Andrews, Scotland), and a piece from Allen White of the Tellus Institute in Boston, USA.
In addition, we are attempting to include the Māori voice. The mātauranga Māori section includes a piece from one of our own Māori staff, Garth Harmsworth. Landcare Research has a strong history of engaging with Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) in our work and in developing research programmes that help Māori deliver on their aspirations for the environment. The first steps have been developing the frameworks for documenting cultural indicators, which reflect traditional knowledge and values (mātauranga Māori) in ways that are recognisable in the governance, management, and interactions of many organisations.
We look forward to adding more material relating to this issue in the near future.
Feedback
We are keen to get feedback on our sustainability pages from all stakeholders, and encourage readers to provide comments: feedback@landcareresearch.co.nz
For general enquiries, please refer to our contacts section.
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Voices for sustainability
Our sustainability aims
Our sustainability progress
Science for sustainability