YTL CORPORATION BERHAD 92647-H www.ytl.com.my www.ytlcommunity.com the journey continues... YTL CORPORATION BERHAD 92647-H BERHAD YTL CORPORATION 11th Floor Yeoh Tiong Lay Plaza 55 Jalan Bukit Bintang 55100 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel • 603 2117 0088 603 2142 6633 Fax • 603 2141 2703 92647-H sustainability report 2011 sustainability report 2011 This report is printed on environmentally friendly paper. YTL CORPORATION BERHAD 92647-H Table of Contents 2 Managing Director’s Review 10 Corporate Responsibility 12 Promotion Of Arts & Culture 14 Starhill Gallery Arts Festival 15 The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) 17 Singapore Dance Theatre 17 The Actor’s Studio at the Rooftop, Lot 10 17 A Midsummer Nights Feast at Starhill Gallery 18 Feast Village Junior 18 Hutong – A Gourmet Heritage Village at Lot 10 19 YTL Concerts of Celebration 20 Supporting Education & Community Development 22 Education Initiatives 28 Community Support & Development Initiatives 36 Employee Welfare 38 Protection of the Environment 40 The YTL Group’s Environmental Vision 42 Utilities 61 Cement Manufacturing 65 Express Rail Link 68 Property Development & Sustainable Design 85 Hotels & Resorts 87 Carbon Credit Consultancy Services 88 Biodiversity & Nature Conservation 102 Programmes & Collaborations 102 Earth Hour 2011 105 Ongoing Outreach Through Climate Change Week 106 National Geographic Store, Kuala Lumpur 108 The Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change 108 The Cancun Communiqué on Climate Change 108 The 2°C Challenge Communiqué on Climate Change 109 Support For Environmental Organisations 113 Memberships 114 Be Part of the Solution 116 Find Out More Go Online at : www.ytl.com.my / www.ytlcommunity.com 2 Managing Director’s Review Dear Stakeholder, You may have observed that our world is changing at an unprecedented rate. Global consumption of natural resources could almost triple to 140 billion tons a year by 2050 unless nations take drastic steps, as the United Nation issued a warning this year. Weather disasters in the poorest nations have trebled since the 1980s and carbon emissions have also reached highest ever levels, with unpublished estimates 2011 from the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealing that the world economy’s return to growth in 2010 coincided with a 1.6 gigatonne rise in carbon dioxide emissions, the highest ever recorded. sustainability report TAN SRI DATO’ (DR) FRANCIS YEOH SOCK PING PSM, FICE, CBE, SIMP, DPMS, DPMP, JMN, JP Managing Director, YTL Corporation Berhad YTL Corporation Berhad 3 Recent headlines this year in 2011 also included At YTL, I am pleased that we have adopted the the EU and US debt crises, oil prices reaching “Four Cs” of corporate environmental two-and-a-half year highs; Japan dealing with a stewardship: nuclear power meltdown; the one-year anniversary of the Gulf Oil disaster; and the International (1) Conserve Energy Energy Agency (IEA) issuing a report calling for (2) Convert to Lower Carbon Energy more aggressive build-out of clean energy to (3) Choose Quality Offsets offset declining oil production and climate (4) Call for Action change. So we see climate change has become a real and very serious problem, but it’s only one of a suite of problems the World is now facing – everything from peak oil to volatile markets to record-high food prices to the need to bring genuine development to half the world’s people that live on less than US$2 a day, and to the frightening reality that we are losing every major ecosystem on the planet. So how are Businesses faring? Business is probably the only institution on the planet that can move fast enough and that is intelligently managed to be able to grasp opportunities despite the state the world is in. Experts point out that though corporations control the use of massive resources, by changing their habits, they can make a much bigger difference than any individual possibly can. The good news is that most business leaders are beginning to understand the importance of taking action to reduce their companies’ carbon footprint on the environment. There is now proof from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs showing that companies that are leaders in environment, social and good governance policy have 25 percent Meanwhile, the concept of Sustainability is higher stock value than their less sustainable increasingly seen as a need-to-have by corporate competitors. Boards and CEOs, rather than a nice-to-have. Sustainability carries with it a range of quantifiable, Research has also shown that even in the bottomline benefits that enhance competitiveness economic collapse since 2008, sustainability and resource efficiency. I am pleased that within leaders have the fastest-growing stock value and the YTL Group, we have established a committed are well protected from value erosion, even in a “YTL Group Sustainability Committee” dedicated down economy with more sustainable companies to looking at important environmental matters having an average market capitalisation of US$650 from energy efficiency to carbon mapping and million more than their less sustainable overall stewardship of sustainability within our competitors. Climate capitalism is therefore Organisation. becoming good for the bottom line, with corporate spending on sustainability estimated to The vision here is for Directors, Employees and double in 2013 from current levels, sparking a Agents of the Group to conduct themselves in a massive market expansion as companies manner that always meets and regularly exceeds increasingly see the business value of investing in expectations of sustainable practices through the the Environment. mastering of three languages – the language of God, Man and Machine. The policy applies to the At its best, business can deliver the creative entire YTL Group of Companies and has been solutions that the world desperately needs – low formulated in order to streamline and unify the carbon prosperity for a planet that will have an Group’s Sustainability Policy across all business estimated nine billion inhabitants by 2050. units. Go Online at : www.ytl.com.my / www.ytlcommunity.com 4 Managing Director’s Review I believe every company is an energy company In Kuala Lumpur, celebrations were held at Lot – or will be one soon – as it may only be a 10’s “Forest in the City” Rooftop and over in matter of time until energy management Singapore, the popular shopping district of programmes become the norm. The sooner Orchard Road was transformed into a “sea of companies have strategies and actively manage candles” during the inaugural “Celebrate Earth their energy use, the faster they will succeed in Hour @ Orchard 2011”, where YTL Corporation 2011 gaining a number of advantages including better was the Presenter Sponsor of the inaugural savings, a better bottom line, greater customer event, along with the Organiser, Orchard Road loyalty, lower business risk, enhanced competitive Business Association (ORBA) and the World Wide advantage and company-wide awareness of Fund for Nature (WWF). Here, members of the sustainability. Executives now understand that not public were treated to an evening of street only can they afford to go green, they cannot celebrations in a bid to raise public awareness afford not to. And this is our stance at YTL. on environmental conservation. In response to the devastating earthquake in Japan and ensuing sustainability report One of our innovative “Calls for Action” comes in tsunami, staff and volunteers from YTL and the form of our flagship educational campaign, Starhill Global REIT also worked together to Climate Change Week, which we pioneered and accept donations on behalf of the Singapore Red have been hosting since 2007. Designed to Cross for the Japan Disaster 2011 Fund, educate and raise public awareness towards the strengthening the significance of “going beyond critical issue of global warming, it aims to raise the hour” this year. environmental consciousness amongst Malaysians, inspiring them to be part of the solution to the In 2011, milestones of YTL’s corporate urgent issue of global warming. responsibility and sustainability achievements include YTL Corporation, Starhill Global REIT & Orchard Road Business Association (ORBA) receiving the “Special Award for the Best Party” at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Earth Hour Singapore 2011 Participation Awards, and YTL-SV Carbon winning the Award for “Best Carbon Markets Brokerages, Asia” at the World Finance Carbon Market Awards 2011. YTL Corporation and YTL Cement also won the Silver Award for “CSR Leadership Excellence” and Bronze Award for “Best Product Excellence”, respectively, at the Global CSR Awards 2011. In addition, YTL Corporation was awarded the “Corporate Platinum Award” by Singapore’s Community Chest Awards 20111 Earth Hour 2011 @ Orchard Road, Singapore saluting individuals, companies and organisations with a selfless propensity to help those in On 26 March 2011, YTL also celebrated its third need. Earth Hour, which saw 36 of our subsidiaries and properties switching off their lights for more than an hour in respect of this global movement. Our Group’s iconic landmarks and establishments, including several in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bali, Phuket and Japan, switched off their lights from 8.00 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. (keeping to the theme of “60+” and going beyond the Hour) in a move that underlines our belief in the collective power of individuals in reversing the tide of climate change. 1 The Company Chest in Singapore is a fund-raising arm of the National Council of Social Service with a purpose to ensure that every person within the society has the opportunity to live a life of dignity to his or her fullest potential. YTL Corporation Berhad 5 YTL has also signed up to support and be part of Over a decade ago, YTL began innovating ways both the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate to use clean technology, realising the implications Change, the Cancun Communiqué on Climate of uncontrolled carbon emissions into the Change, and the 2°C Challenge Communique, atmosphere, as well as exploring renewable widely recognised as the definitive progressive energy sources, due to the heavy energy demands statements from the international business of the utilities and construction industries.