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CONTENTSFOREMATTER Credits and Contributors ............................................ 7 Foreword by Jonathan Hanks .................................... 8Chairman’s Letter ....................................................... 9Editor’s Letter ............................................................ 11Foreword by the Department of Environmental Affairs ............................................ 12Foreword by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) ... 14Key Sector Index ..................................................... 114Advertisers Listing .................................................. 196

KEY FEATURESThe Principles for Responsible Investment Report 2011 ...................................... 30 UNEP Finance InitiativeUnited Nations Global Impact

Road Map to a Single European Transport Area: 50 Facts and Figures ............................................ 58 European Commission’s Department for Mobility & Transport

India: Pattern of an Urbanising Nation ............. 72 International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environment ChangeUrbanization and Global Environmental Change

The Impact of urbanisation on Cultivated Land in China ......................................................... 78International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environment ChangeUrbanization and Global Environmental Change

Urban Growth and Food Security in the Himalayas ......................................................... 84International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environment ChangeUrbanization and Global Environmental Change

SECTOR OVERVIEWSTourism ................................................................... 116Growing responsible tourism

Energy ..................................................................... 120 Building renewable energy industry

Financial ................................................................. 129ESG Developments in the South AfricanFinancial Market Waste Reduction and recycling ........................ 131 Keeping a lid on waste

Energy Effi ciency ................................................. 133 Towards an energy effi ciency South Africa

Agriculture ............................................................. 135 Growing green

Consultants ........................................................... 136Expertise for sustainable greening

Manufacturing ...................................................... 137 Manufacturing future sustainability

Transportation ...................................................... 139 Essential transport infrastructure

Water ....................................................................... 140 Water at the centre of economic development

Material .................................................................. 142 Green building material

Property .................................................................. 146Building for a sustainable future

Public Sector ........................................................ 149Public Sector going green

Chairman & Group Publisher Richard Fletcher CEO Ralf Fletcher Project Manager Chris Hoffmann Group Production Manager Van Fletcher Group Editor Tania De Kock Managing Editor Thulile Nxumalo Head Designer Jayne Macé Designers Kyle Collison, Mpumelelo Bhengu

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Samantha Petersen, Stephen Paxton, Jehad Kasu, Charmaine Dochecty, Carl Chothia, Lee-Ann Arendse, Recardo de LetagoGuy Chicken, Peter Augustine, Ross Maltman, Lyndon Naidoo Offi ce Manager Haley Fletcher Administrator Nafi sa Mallum, Mishqah Slamdien

Distribution Ingrid Johnstone, Ursula Davids Human Resources Manager Janine Salick Financial Administrators Bernadette Theron, Deidre Daniels, Sharon Tockley, Themba Gaga

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An experienced editor and writer with a business and development back-ground, Kristina Davidson believes that, while creativity has a place in the business world, creative writing is best reserved for novels. Her forte is combining practical, logical thinking with visual creativity and plain language, and she speaks French.

Sukaina Walji is a communications specialist with expertise in digital media and technology-enhanced learning, and is studying towards a Masters in Online Education. She is an advocate of the power of technology to promote social change and believes that African businesses have a great opportunity to leverage ICTs for exponential growth.

Copyright permission for The Impacts of Urbanization on Cultivated Land Change in China, Local and Global Changes in an Urbanizing World: The Connections of Urban Agriculture within Cities, India: Patterns of an Urbanizing Nation and Urban Growth and Food Security in the Himalayas granted courtesy of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) and its the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) core project. Extracted from the UGEC Viewpoints publication (No. 5, April 2011).For a detailed overview of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) core project’s UGEC Viewpoints publication and other cutting-edge information, please visit http://www.ugec.org.

Copyright permission for Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area: 50 Facts and Figures granted courtesy of the European Commission’s Department for Mobility and Transport. For a detailed overview of the European Commission’s Department for Mobility and Transport’s White Paper 2011 – Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area and other cutting-edge information, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/transport/strategies/index_en.htm

Copyright permission for Report on Progress of the Principles of Responsible Invest-ment 2011 – An analysis of signatory progress and guidance on implementation granted courtesy of the Principles of Responsible Investing, the UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact. The PRI is an investor initiative in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact.For a detailed overview of the PRI’s Report on Progress of the Principles of Responsible Investment 2011, please visit http://www.unpri.org/publications

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South Africa faces some significant

environmental, social and governance

(ESG) challenges. But as a young, diverse

nation with a sophisticated business

infrastructure in an emerging marketplace,

ESG pressures are increasingly acting

as a catalyst for positive change. While

the rate of progress may be variable, the

pockets of evident leadership on ESG

issues – among South African businesses,

government departments and individuals –

is encouraging.

Optimism is important, so as we head into

COP17 in Durban – with many us perhaps

slightly pessimistic about the outcome –

there are lots of reasons to be proudly

South African.

One of the more significant ESG

developments (internationally and locally)

is the shift to Integrated Reporting, an

area in which South Africa has been

playing a pioneering role. Not only

are we are the first country to actively

promote integrated reporting as a JSE

listing requirement, but the South African

discussion paper on IR, published in

January 2011, has an undoubted influence

on the discussion paper recently released

by the International Integrated Reporting

Committee (IIRC). The chair of the IIRC is

a South African, and recent international

surveys of corporate reporting practice

have placed many local reports as

amongst the best globally.

Local corporates have further

demonstrated global leadership in

terms of their disclosure practices, with

this year’s Carbon Disclosure Project

(CDP) seeing the JSE 100 companies

providing the second highest response

rate internationally, and being amongst

the leaders in terms of their voluntary

emissions reduction commitments.

Similarly, an index tracking the

environmental reporting of the 300 biggest

companies among BRICS countries ranks

South Africa in the lead on emissions

reporting and verification.

The South African government, host of

COP17 and previous host of the World

Summit on Sustainable Development, has

also shown leadership in these areas.

We are recognised internationally for

having some of the most progressive

water legislation in the world, and our

recent conditional climate change

emission reduction commitments are seen

as more progressive than many other

countries with similar socio-economic

characteristics. We are also moving ahead

with the introduction of a possible carbon

tax, a sign that even without international

agreement (a common reason for inaction)

the country is committed to domestic

mitigation efforts.

Our home-grown King III governance

standard, part of the first governance

codes globally to effectively integrate

sustainability issues, has been described

as “the most effective summary of the

best international practices in corporate

governance”.

Although still a trend-setting minority, a

number of South African companies are

seeing ESG issues as an opportunity to

create value, focus their innovation efforts

and address societal challenges. From

new banking products that serve the

previously unbanked, to healthcare models

that integrate primary with tertiary care,

and public with private services, and from

low-cost communications platforms that

enable mobile health services and mobile

banking to micro insurance products that

take into account the increase in weather-

related claims, these companies are

ushering in the world of tomorrow. They

are the companies that feature in the ESG

Green Pages publication.

Jonathan HanksManaging Director, Incite Sustainability

ESG FOREWORD

Jonathan HanksManaging Director of INCITE Sustainabil i ty

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“One of the more significant ESG developments (internationally and locally) is the shift to Integrated Reporting, an area in which South Africa has been playing a pioneering role.”

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Johnny Cash, the American Country music singer, has a song called 40 Shades of Green that I think sums up the ESG Green Pages publication. My rationale behind this is that going green is multi-facetted. In this publication we have looked at many of the ways in which the private and public sectors can be both sustainable and environmentally friendly, we have listed companies that have produced both innovative goods and services, which will help us all in the drive to become green. In my mind this is imperative and long overdue.I would like to give a big thank you to Roger Surridge of The Rebus Advertising Agency in Paris – Roger was responsible for fi rst planting the seed about a publication about Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) in Africa.I would like to extend a further thank you to Jonathan Hanks of Incite Sustainability and Professor Ralph Hamann of the UCT Graduate School of Business for their valued support and advice during this project.The ESG Green Pages publication would not have reached fruition without the Topco team, including Tania, Chris, Carl, Lee-Ann and Ross, who, from a standing start have produced one of the most important publications in South Africa for 2011.As it says in the song ‘I close my eyes and picture the 40 Shades of Green’ in this incredible continent of Africa.

Best regards

Richard FletcherChairmanTopco Media

Chairman’sLetter

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER ESG

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Despite consensus among the world’s scientists and overwhelming evidence to support their claims, a great deal of people and corporations still remain skeptical about climate change and our contribution to the worsening situation. Climate change in itself is not a foreign concept on earth, but it’s the rate at which it is currently happening that is of great worry. If climate change happens over hundreds or thousands of years, it gives living organisms (humans included) time to adapt, but if it takes place over a couple of decades, the challenges are much greater. South Africa might be hosting the UNFCCC Conference of Parties 17 (COP17), but we still need greater awareness of the real, ‘tactile’ climate change issues. Humans, at the top of the food chain, cannot positively respond to something they do not understand. The fact remains that although Africa’s carbon emissions remains at the lower end of the scale, the continent will be on the receiving end of the rest of the world’s unwillingness to act – and act decisively. This sentiment is supported by Ban Ki-moon, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations in his 2009 Korea Herald interview: “Climate change affects us all, but it does not affect us all equally. The poorest and most vulnerable – those who have done the least to contribute to global warming — are bearing the brunt of the impact today”. What effect has climate change had on our surroundings? In Africa alone, the changes to the Benguela current has negatively affected the marine fi shing industry, long-lasting droughts have left their mark on not only the Horn of Africa, but several SADC countries – and there is a real risk that malaria, one of the biggest killers in Africa, will affect once malaria-free zones in the south of the continent. It really is time that the citizens of this planet take responsibility for the future we are creating. We cannot keep on looking the other way and pretend that we don’t realise that for every one of our actions, there is a reaction. Let us consider our actions and change the reactions.Let’s not be the culprits as referred to by Thomas Edison in 1931 when he remarked to his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide... I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that”.

I believe that each individual, whatever our nationality, is born with the responsibility to be part of the solution. Start today – because tomorrow might be too late.

Best regards

Tania de KockGroup Editor

EDITOR’SNote

EDITOR’S NOTE ESG

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The phenomenon known as “climate change”, refers to an ongoing trend of changes in the earth’s general weather conditions as a result of an average rise in the temperature of the earth’s surface often referred to as global warming. This rise in the average global temperature is due, primarily, to the increased concentration of gases know as greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere that are emitted by human activities. These gases intensify a natural phenomenon called the “greenhouse effect” by forming an insulating layer in the atmosphere that reduces the amount of the sun’s heat that radiates back into space and therefore has the effect of making the earth warmer.

Minister of Environmental Affairs

Edna Molewa

www.environment .gov.za

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While weather changes on a daily basis, climate represents the statistical distributed of weather patterns over time, and on a global scale has changed only very slowly in the past – usually over periods of tens of thousands of years or even millions of the year which allows time for the earth’s bio-physical systems to adapt naturally to the changing climatic conditions. Currently, the global climate is changing much more rapidly as a result of global warming, leading to, among others, the melting of polar and glacier ice, sea level rise, ocean acidification, intensity of extreme weather events, such as tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones. The rapid rate of this climate change does not allow the earth’s bio-physical systems to adapt to these changes naturally. The evidence of rapid climate change, including more frequent and intense weather systems and greater climate variability, has already has been observed and includes:• Increasesintheaverageglobaltemperature; with the past decade being the hottest on record;• Risesintheaverageglobalsealevel;• Changesinaveragerainfallpattern,with some regions experience higher rainfall (e.g. Northern Europe) and the areas experience drying (e.g. the Sahel and southern Africa)• Increasedfrequencyofheavyrainfalland extreme weather events over most land areas;and• Moreintenseandlongerdroughts, particularly in the topics and subtropics. The rate of change to the earth’s climate exceeds the ability of all types of ecosystems (marine, coastal, freshwater, and terrestrial) to adapt as well as compromising their ability to function affectively. Ecosystems provide important services to society, such as the formation ofsoil;theprovisionoffood,freshwater, wood,fibreandfuel;theregulationof climate,floodsandthespreadofdisease; protectionfromstormsurgesandfloods; and a range of cultural, spiritual, educational, and recreational services. The protection of biodiversity, habitats and ecosystems is essential to the maintenance of these services, which is a key pillar for sustainable development.South Africa’s response to climate change has two objectives:• Effectivelymanageinevitableclimate change impacts through interventions that build and sustain South Africa’s social,

economic and environment resilience and emergency response capacity.• Makeafaircontributiontotheglobal effort to stabilise greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that avoids dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system within a timeframe that enables economic, social and environmental development to proceed in a sustainable manner.

The overall strategic approach for South Africa’s climate change response is needs drivenandcustomised;development;transformational;empoweringparticipatory;dynamicandevidence-based;balancedandcosteffective;integratedandaligned.Principles and approach is structured around the following strategic priorities: risk reduction andmanagement;mitigationactionwithsignificantoutcomes;sectoralresponses;policyandregulatoryalignment;informeddecisionmakingandplanning;integratedplanning;technologyresearch;developmentandinnovation;facilitatedbehaviourchange;behaviourchangethroughchoice;andresource mobilisation.Africa will build the climate resilience of the country, its economy and its people and manage the transition to a climate-resilient, equitable and internationally competitive lower-carbon economy and society in a manner that simultaneously addressed South Africa’s over-riding national priorities for sustainable development, job creation, improved public and environmental health, poverty eradication, andsocialequality.Inthisregard,SouthAfricawill:• Effectivelymanageinevitableclimate change impacts through interventions that build and sustain South Africa’s social, economic and environmental resilience and emergency response capacity. • Makeafaircontributiontotheglobal effort to stabilise GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that avoids dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system within the climate system within a timeframe that enables economic, social and environmental development to proceed in a sustainable manner.

South African climate change response requires economic, social and environmental interventions that integrate mitigation and adaptation elements within a developmental framework. Furthermore, an effective South

African climate change response also requires the management measures of other countries that have negative consequences for the country. Principles and approach is structured around the following strategic priorities: risk reduction andmanagement;mitigationactionwithsignificantoutcomes;sectoralresponses;policyandregulatoryalignment;informeddecisionmakingandplanning;integratedplanning;technologyresearch;developmentandinnovation;facilitatedbehaviourchange;behaviourchangethroughchoice;andresource mobilisation.Amongst a range of environmental constraints that are of necessity playing an increasing role in social development planning, climate change represents the most urgent and far-reaching challenge of our time. While every country will have to develop its own adaptive responses to the effects of climate change, mitigating climate change to ensure the disruption caused to human and natural systems is within manageable parameters can only ariseoutofaglobalresponse.Respondingto climate change is cross-generational challenges. The effects of action or action or inaction will not be felt immediately, but will have significant consequences for future generation.Itiswithincontext,andinformedbyanappropriate sense of urgency, that the South African government has developed NationalClimatechangeResponsePolicy.The current plan represents the first iteration of South Africa’s ongoing efforts to adapt to climate change and contribute to the global mitigationeffort.Intermsofcontributionto the global mitigation effort, the decision to institute sectoral desired emission reduction outcomes and carbon budgets is momentous – it represents a concrete and practical commitment by South Africa.Realisingthecommitmentwillrequiresustained effort and cooperation from all spheres of government, the private sector and civil society formations, and ultimately will depend on decisions by individual citizens to embrace climate-friendly lifestyles and habits. Everyone is a stakeholder in the plan, and the level of engagement from the public in the process of drafting the National ClimateChangeResponsesuggeststhatthere is no shortage of the requisite will to make the far-reaching changes that are required.

FOREWORD ESG

The fundamentals of the National Climate Change Response White Paper.

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The successful deliverance of COP17/CMP7 in Durban from 28 November to 09 December 2011, is one of the key issues that is at the centre of the South African Government’s key deliverables for the period 2011/2012. This is, in part, influenced by our hosting of COP17/CMP7 in the magnificent City of Durban, but also by the centrality that climate change has acquired as an urgent and immediate threat to our way of life as we know it. We have all witnessed the acute changes in weather patterns all over the globe. Internationally, we have witnessed devastating floods in Pakistan, and the devastating power of the Tsunami in Japan. Here in Africa we have all seen the helplessness of humanity when confronted by nature’s destructive power as evidenced in Somalia, where our Government in partnership with the Gift of the Givers continues to play an instrumental role in alleviating the challenges facing that country. We have also seen the changing weather patterns affecting Nigeria and Benin, where floods have wrecked havoc within those countries. Here at home, we have experienced some of the coldest winters on record throughout the country, including changing rainfall patterns in the Eastern Cape. These climatic challenges certainly have an impact on both our way of life as well as on our ability to feed our societies.As the Incoming COP President, my role is to lead the world in forging a common consensus in terms of reversing these adverse effects of climate change. By hosting COP17/CMP7, South Africa hopes to uphold rules-based multilateralism as one of our fundamental interests, which we aspire to globally. Accordingly, South Africa will endeavor to uphold the consensus nature of decision-making that has characterized the UNFCCC and its

Conference/s of the Parties, since 1995. In this regard, South Africa, in cooperation with the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will seek to facilitate an outcome, which is fair, transparent, and inclusive and upholds the Convention principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities. The negotiations in Durban will be a Party-driven process with South Africa playing an enabling role for Parties to find agreement on the salient issues of climate change. South Africa will not seek to impose a solution of its own, as its own processes and Rules of Procedure, which we think is important to observe since this strengthens multilateralism and the legitimacy of the whole process, govern the UNFCCC.In this juncture, it is important to note that one of our critical immediate responsibilities is to ensure that the trust which was restored in Cancun does not

suffer a second disconnect amongst Parties as evidenced in the Copenhagen negotiations. As the Parties prepare to meet in Durban, there is an urgent need for all Parties to approach the Durban negotiations with an element of maturity, as the outcomes of the Cancun negotiations, although laudable, unfortunately did not address all the issues.The success of Durban will be measured in terms of the following:•One:Thereisconsensusonthe

position that the Cancun Agreements must be operationalised, including the establishment of the key mechanisms and institutional arrangements agreed to in Cancun. Here the Green Climate Fund represents a centerpiece of a broader set of outcomes for Durban. Developing countries demand a prompt start for the Fund through its early and initial capitalization.•Two:ForDurbantobesuccessful,wehave to do more than making the Cancun Agreements operational. We have no option but to deal with the outstanding political issues remaining from the Bali Roadmap. This means finding a resolution to the issue of the 2nd commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol and agreeing on the legal nature of a future climate change system•Third:Adaptationisanessentialelementof the outcome in Durban as it is a key priority for many developing countries, particularly small island developing states, least developed countries and Africa. The current fragmented approach to adaptation must be addressed in a more coherent manner and give equal priority to adaptation and mitigation. Let us take up the challenges of ensuring that, through South Africa’s hosting of COP17/CMP7, we will be truthful to our commitment to “Working Together: Saving Tomorrow Today.”

Maite Nkoana-MashabaneIncoming PresidentCOP17/CMP7

“Let us take up the challenges of ensuring that, through South Africa’s hosting of COP17/CMP7, we will be truthful to our commitment to Working Together: Saving Tomorrow Today.”

DIRCO Minister

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

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Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, as the incoming President of COP17/CMP7

FOREWORD ESG

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Get trendy and environmentally – friendly with recycled fashion.

go grEEn with Ec0-FriEndly Fashion

Stylish and trendy shoes made of 1.

shweshwe material (known as BaSotho

material).

Anything – from a scarf to a bag – can be

made using this material. Also suitable

for infantwear

Shoes produced under strict ecological 2.

standards and made from genuine

vegetable-tanned leather (toxin-free and

fit for allergy sufferers).

T-shirts, printed with water-based ink, 3.

with messages promoting eco-living.

Baby-doll dress made of hemp plant 4.

material – which has more sustainable

natural fibre than cotton.

Bangle made from recycled pleather 5.

material and a circuit board.

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Recycled dresses. 1.

Recycled denim short.2.

Recycled tape measure creatively folded to create 3.

a unique fl ower.

Material used to manufacture this pouch was taken from 4.

old torn couch, can be used for as a camera, cellphone,

and iPod pouch.

Trendy purses made of recycled woven plastic material.5.

Shopping bags made of recycled manure sack.6.

PVC banners recycled into bags.7.

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STOCKISTS

Lucky Friday:• +27 (0)21 422 3801

Sitting Pretty: • +27 (0)21 422 3996

Think Shoes:• +27 (0)21 418 4503

Eyakho Green:• +27 (0)31 562 3366

House of Hemp:• +27 (0)16 362 1022

Home Brew:• +27 (0)82 818 3665

Change Room:• +27 (0)78 392 1532

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