Corporate response to sustainability insufficient - ACCA
The corporate responses to sustainability is still insufficient and
business leaders need to change this, ACCA Sri Lanka President Nandika
Buddhipala said.
He was speaking at the Annual ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards
which was held yesterday.
"The corporate responses to sustainability is still insufficient. We
urge our business leaders to make the difference and commit to a
sustainable agenda to the institutions that they lead," he said.
He said the effort of the competitors to address the concerns of the
stakeholders with regard to long-term sustainability against short-term
financial success and to report on social environmental and economical
concerns of their respective companies are commendable in the context of
during financial constrains confront them.
Hatton National Bank, DIMO and HNB Assurance emerged winners in the
large, medium and small categories with Chemanex and Union Assurance
coming in as runners-up in the small and medium categories respectively.
The large category saw Ceylon Tobacco Company and John Keells
Holdings adjudged as joint runners-up. |
