Sustainability
Unlocking the potential of real assets to create lasting positive impact and a more sustainable tomorrow.
Our sustainability strategy
Sustainability is embedded into the way we do business, focusing on our three priority areas alongside our foundations.
Our sustainability strategy is integrated into our investment and property management approach with alignment across our platform, providing a clear and consistent framework for applying our strategy to funds and real assets.
Our priority areas create greater sustainability impact and unlock more commercial value by leveraging our core business activities and assets to focus on what matters most - our customers, climate and communities.
Customer Prosperity
We support the prosperity of our customers through the investment, design, development and management of real assets. We collaborate with our customers to improve customer satisfaction, support our customers’ sustainability aspirations and aim to enhance the wellbeing of individuals and communities who visit and use our buildings.
Climate Action
We are focused on accelerating the transition to a decarbonised economy while also safeguarding and advancing our people, assets, property and financial returns. In doing so, we will decarbonise and increase the resilience of our real assets by investing in renewables and initiatives that lead to better climate outcomes.
Our Climate Transition Action Plan (CTAP) details our continued approach to addressing climate change through decarbonisation, resilience and adaptation and transition investment. The CTAP sets out our climate aspirations to:
Continue to maintain net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions and procure 100% electricity from renewable sources for the managed portfolio, on the pathway to achieving absolute zero with minimal offsets on Scope 1 and 2 emissions for the Platform managed portfolio by 2040
Invest $2 billion of Funds Under Management (FUM) in the climate transition across the Platform by 2035
Continue to enhance climate resilience through risk management and adaptation of the Dexus Platform
Achieve net zero by 2050, supporting customers and investors to decarbonise through resilient assets
Enhancing Communities
Through inclusive and accessible design and placemaking, and investment in infrastructure that creates social value, we aim to create local connections for healthy hearts and minds in the communities around our assets and investments.
We work with community organisations with local knowledge and deep expertise to deliver on our goal of enhancing communities. We create local connections for healthy hearts and minds through our partnerships with Black Dog Institute, Australia’s only medical research institute that investigates mental health from childhood to adulthood, and headspace, Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation.
Our social value aspiration is to create half a million cumulative local connections for healthy hearts and minds by 2030.
Our partnerships and social value aspirations support Dexus to positively impact the wellbeing of our employees, customers and communities at scale.
Through these partnerships we support the wellbeing of our employees, customers and communities.
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Sustainability foundations
Dexus’s sustainability strategy is built on foundations that are integral for our business to be able to operate effectively and ethically. This includes circularity, Indigenous engagement, health and wellbeing, nature, diversity, equality and inclusion, human rights, and governance and reporting.
Circularity
Managing waste and water for assets and developments.
Nature
Assessing and managing biodiversity risk aligned with TNFD recommendations and investigating biodiversity co-benefits.
Human rights
Managing human rights and modern slavery risks in our operations and value chain.
Governance and reporting
Maintaining leading governance practices and disclosures through our annual reporting suite and sustainability benchmarks.
Diversity, equality and inclusion
Supporting and celebrating an inclusive and diverse workforce and communities in and around our assets.
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