Celebrating new ways of doing business: CDL Chief Sustainability Officer Ms Esther An (top row, far right) with Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Ms Grace Fu (front row in white dress), SPH Media Trust Chairman Khaw Boon Wan (Ms Fu’s right), UOB Deputy Chairman and CEO Mr Wee Ee Cheong (Ms Fu’s left), and the winners and judges of the Sustainability Impact Awards 2023 at the awards ceremony. (Credit: Yen Meng Jin/ The Business Times)
CDL Lauded
For Spearheading
Net-Zero
Initiatives
At Sustainability
Impact Awards
City Developments Limited (CDL) was among six large enterprises and an individual who scored the Impact Enterprise Excellence Award at the recent inaugural Sustainability Impact Awards this year.
CDL was lauded for its role in building and designing the net-zero-energy facility, Singapore Sustainability Academy, and spearheading other net-zero initiatives.
Organised by The Business Times and UOB. the award recognises businesses and individuals who have had a positive impact on the environment and community.
CDL Chief Sustainability Officer Ms Esther An said the Academy demonstrates the company’s dedication to building capacity and network to drive climate action and sustainable development.
The 4,300 square foot facility might look like a regular event space, with classrooms, a veranda, an office and an exhibition gallery. But it has emerged as a gathering point for the sustainability-minded. Since it officially opened in June 2017, the Singapore Sustainability Academy has hosted more than 780 sustainability-related events attended by some 27,000 attendees.
The collective effect of that is what property developer City Developments Limited (CDL) has set out to do with the space, which is to build a larger ecosystem of stakeholders to amplify positive change and impact.
