The Board agrees overall CR strategy, with the CR Group monitoring progress against targets. CR targets are grouped around our five material areas and are delivered by working groups representing the three principal areas of Hammerson’s business: Operations; Development; and Corporate.
We adopt a common approach in the UK and France.
- The CR Group meets quarterly. Working groups meet at least every two months.
- Our knowledge, education and communication programmes span our five material areas. They focus on sharing sustainability knowledge with our occupiers and visitors to our shopping centres, and on ensuring that our employees and suppliers fully understand our objectives and the reasons for them.
- A major focus since 2006 has been the improvement of measuring and monitoring systems, both at the point of data collection and in its subsequent analysis. This is fundamental to our approach.
- This is our second year of reporting using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines. As in 2008, we are targeting level B. We also participate in recognised indices such as DJSI and FTSE4Good, and publish our response to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Responses to investor questionnaires are available on our website www.hammerson.com.