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What do you think about the stakeholder panel's statement?
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What does collective responsibility mean to you?
Collective responsibility in action
Collective responsibility in your own words
Our collective responsibility
Sustainability touches every aspect of our business. It’s complex and all-pervading. To get it right, we need to get everyone involved.
We set out our sustainability vision, and the roadmap for delivering it, in 2009. But a vision and a map are only pointers. To arrive at the destination, we have to make the actual journey. All of us, together.
Central to this vision is the idea that we need to work together, both inside the company and through external partnerships, to share knowledge and experience of delivering more sustainable thinking and solutions. This means instilling a sense that sustainability isn’t someone else’s job. It’s a collective responsibility we all share.
This section shares our 2020 sustainability vision, shows how we’re progressing and highlights some of the fantastic people and projects that are helping us on our journey to become more sustainable.
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Featured comment
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Featured comment
By Tony Burton
It is encouraging to see a company with such wide ranging impacts and interests engaging seriously in how it can deliver wider public benefits. With communities expecting to have much more of a say about their future and the political interest in localism growing from all sides the challenge of engaging communities effectively will be key to ensuring collective responsibility. Here at Civic Voice – the new national charity for the civic movement – we might ask whether you think it is being done well enough at the moment? And how would you feel if you put yourself in the shoes of a local community for a day?
I think it is a refreshing approach to collect comments from an external stakeholder panel around the issue of sustainability. It allows for an unbiased review of Balfour Beatty’s achievements as well as clear advice on which areas of sustainability and reporting can be developed. I agree with the comments that it is important for issues such as climate change adaptation and water to continue moving up Balfour Beatty’s agenda as these issues are continuing rising up the political and social agenda and increasing in relevance to both local and international communities.