For over 10 years, sustainability has been Sime Darby Property’s beacon, an idea we have sought to progressively understand, nurture and embed within the company’s corporate culture. This includes our value chain, products, services and communities. Simultaneously, we have developed a growing awareness of how our scale (being the largest property developer by landbank in Malaysia) gives us the ability to do a great deal of good or the opposite if we do not take into account our stakeholders’ interests and needs while doing business. These are: the need to achieve balance amongst the three spheres of sustainability and to consider the inherent risks and opportunities associated with the very real impacts of Climate Change and the limits of our environmental systems and processes.

Hence we are now applying sustainability within a Sustainability Ecosystem Approach, taking into account the implications, impacts and opportunities of a multiplicity of components, interrelated parts, actors/stakeholders and natural and physical resource inputs. All these interact within a shared socio-economic, cultural, environmental and political context.

In simple terms, it is about how we deploy resources to achieve prosperity, and in doing so support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in a responsible manner that does not exceed our planet’s threshold.

This long-term direction and desire to be a leader in sustainability in our sector has resulted in the company being accredited during 2018 and 2019 as a constituent within The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) Emerging Markets sub-indices; and for three consecutive years (2018-2020) in the following:

• FTSE4Good BURSA Index:
• FTSE4Good ASEAN 5 Index:
• FTSE4Good Emerging Index: and
• Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Small Cap Index.