Winners of ACCA Lanka Sustainability Reporting Awards
The chief guest, Minister of Export Development and
International Trade, Prof. G. L. Peiris and President of ACCA
Sri Lanka Dilshan Rodrigo with the winners of the ACCA
Sustainability Reporting Awards 2007 - Holcim Lanka
(Large-Scale), Union Assurance (Medium Scale), Sampath Bank
(Commendation and Ceylon Tobacco Company (Commendation).
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Four companies won the prestigious ACCA Sri Lanka Sustainability
Reporting Awards 2007, at a ceremony presided over by Minister of Export
Development and International Trade, Prof. G. L. Peiris. Holcim Lanka
won in the large-scale category while Union Assurance emerged the winner
in the medium-scale category.
Two commendation awards were presented to Ceylon Tobacco Company for
its continuous and consistent focus on sustainability and Sampath Bank
for innovative projects clearly integrating sustainability principles.
Minister Peiris, while commending ACCA Sri Lanka for introducing the
tangibility of recording and reporting sustainable initiatives in a
systematic process, said that the business community plays an integral
role in responsible growth on all three fronts of economic,
environmental and social sustainability to meet a nation’s long term
objectives.
“Sustainable development and responsible action need to be a
public-private sector partnership at the highest level with goals,
values and objectives. It is the business community that has to play a
key role in ensuring that sustainable development takes place
responsibly, transparently and ethically,” he said.
President of ACCA Sri Lanka Dilshan Rodrigo said that, “Environmental
issues have taken over as the number one priority in sustainability
reporting overtaking corporate social responsibility and ethical
reporting, the key issues of the past.
ACCA’s globally recognised Sustainability Awards was launched with
the vision of making Triple Bottom Line reporting an imperative, where
environment, social and financial reporting, are given equal prominence
by business around the world.
We are proud of pioneering Sustainability Reporting in Sri Lanka four
years ago. Sri Lankan companies have certainly come a long way in the
quality and depth of Sustainability Reporting, he said. |