CEMARS™ certified organisations

Achilles Information Ltd

Achilles, the leading supply chain management company, is the first company to receive CEMARS certification for measuring, managing and reporting the operational carbon footprint for it's UK operations. Achilles is a signatory of the UN Global Compact and sees CEMARS certification as an integral part of its wider corporate responsibility and environmental programme. Colin Maund, CEO Achilles Group commented 'As a company which promotes sustainability through its services, the project to measure our own carbon footprint and put reduction plans in place is integral to our core values and business strategy. Achilles is committed to assessing our impact on the environment and reducing our carbon emissions and becoming CEMARS certified is a key first step in this process'. Achilles identifies, assesses, and monitors suppliers on behalf of major organisations worldwide. We build and support buyer-supplier communities in many industry sectors, creating unique and powerful global networks. Our services for sustainable procurement help create opportunities for business and reduce risk in the supply chain. Achilles has partnered with Landcare Research to roll out the CEMARS programme to Achilles customers worldwide.

• Disclosure 2007 - 2008
• Assurance statement 2007 - 2008

Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa

Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa is a luxury resort and nature reserve located approximately 65km by road from Dubai. The property is located within the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR) (approximately 225 square kilometres - five per cent of Dubai’s total land area), and is the largest protected land area under conservation management in the Gulf region, and the only one of its kind in the Middle East. The accommodation area occupies 2% of the total land area. The resort was established approximately 10 years ago. The resort complex can accommodate a maximum of 96 guests, and consists of 42 free-standing suites, plus additional buildings for activities such as dining, recreation, and spa facilities (reception building and restaurant, boardroom, and Timeless Spa). Guests are able to participate in activities on the property including wildlife drives, horse riding, nature walks, desert safaris, camel trekking, falconry, gymnasium activities, swimming pool, and archery. Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa is committed to conservation of the surrounding environment. This includes large scale habitat rehabilitation programs, including the propagation of over 6,000 indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses, and the reintroduction of the regions' first free-roaming herds of endangered Oryx and many other indigenous wildlife species. Three bore-holes on the reserve provide all the resort water from one of the largest remaining freshwater aquifers in the region. Waste water is treated, and later used for irrigation around the resort. Both mechanical and kitchen oils, as well as organic wastes, are gathered and disposed of daily by recycling contractors (composting onsite is not an option, as this would introduce unacceptable levels of nutrients into the reserve). In addition, all office paper and cardboard packaging materials are recycled.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009

Antarctica New Zealand

Antarctica New Zealand is a Crown Entity, and is responsible for “developing, managing, and administering New Zealand's activities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, particularly the Ross Sea region.” Key activities include “supporting scientific research, conserving the intrinsic values of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and raising public awareness (in part through arts, media and youth programmes) of the international significance of the continent.” Antarctica New Zealandis also responsible for managing Scott Base, New Zealand's permanent base in Antarctica. The Base provides services and accommodation for the researchers and groups that visit Antarctica. Antarctica New Zealand work closely with the Italian Antarctic Programme and the US Antarctic Programme.  Antarctica New Zealand also has secondments from the New Zealand Defence Force.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009

ASB Community Trust

ASB Community Trust provides grants in the learning, arts, sport, recreation, environment, heritage, health and social services areas. Founded on the sale of its shares in the ASB bank, the Trust has distributed more than $600m since being formed in 1988. The ASB Community Trust’s vision is to enhance equity and enrich society in Auckland and Northland. Any incorporated or charitable trust can apply for funds, provided they are a not-for-profit organisation that has been operating for more than 12 months.

• Disclosure 2009 - 2010
• Disclosure 2008 - 2009

Contact Energy Ltd

Contact Energy supplies energy to more than 600,000 customers. It operates nine power stations generating around 25 per cent of New Zealand’s electricity and is one of the country’s largest wholesalers and retailers of natural gas. Contact is one of the country’s largest listed companies and one of New Zealand's most widely held stocks with over 82,000 shareholders. It employs around 1,000 people throughout New Zealand. It has a number of offices around the country, within and outside of generation facilities, and on 1 September 2007 acquired Rockgas LPG with additional office accommodation and distribution sites, some of which are franchised. Contact has been in operation since 1996, when it acquired a portfolio of electricity generation and gas assets from the state owned electricity generator, ECNZ (Electricity Corporation of New Zealand). The Company was listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in May 1999. In October 2004, Origin Energy became the major shareholder and holds a 51.4 per centstake in the company. Contact has been an active participant in the discussions around climate change and the introduction of an emissions trading scheme to price carbon emissions. During the period in review, Contact has made strong progress in advancing its development programme in electricity generation projects and projects to support renewable investment. Contact has also undertaken a range of initiatives to ensure the environmental impacts of its operations, such as offices across the country, are minimised.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009

Croxley Stationery Limited

Croxley Stationery Limited is a 100% subsidiary of OfficeMax New Zealand Limited, and is New Zealand’s largest manufacturer of stationery products. Croxley has been an iconic New Zealand business for more than 125 years. Of all the products that Croxley sells, 50% is made in New Zealand and they employ over 400 people in New Zealand. Croxley Stationery operated at a total of 6 sites (Avondale, Papakura, Albany, Wiri, Wellington and Christchurch) during the reporting period. Avondale is the head office and Croxley Stationery’s major manufacturing site. Croxley Stationery has invested in environmental accreditation programmes such as Enviro-Mark®NZ and Environmental Choice New Zealand. These programmes are important in creating robust systems for managing potential impacts Croxley Stationery has on the environment and its communities. Croxley Stationery sources all wood pulp and paper from suppliers certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Croxley Stationery is focused on providing industry leadership and is an active member of the New Zealand Paper Forum.

• Disclosure 2008

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA)

The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) is a Crown Entity established under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (2000) (the Act). EECA is charged with delivering on the Government’s energy efficiency and renewable energy policies.  The Act requires EECA to encourage, promote and support energy efficiency, energy conservation and the use of renewable energy sources.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009
• Disclosure 2007 - 2008

Energy for Industry (EFI)

Energy For Industry (EFI) is an onsite energy solutions provider working in partnership with businesses to efficiently manage waste and provide solutions to energy issues. EFI is a business unit of Meridian Energy Limited and as such, committed to “best practice” in the provision of efficient energy solutions to large scale energy customers in both the public and private sectors. EFI leads its field by achieving CEMARS™ certification, - a major step in indicating how it works with partners to reduce emissions and target developments in biomass and waste to energy conversion projects. The certification offers EFI customers peace of mind that, as an integrated part of their business, EFI is helping them to raise the standard on efficient solutions and environmental responsibility while giving EFI a framework within which to measure and manage EFI’s greenhouse gas emissions profile and a commitment to addressing EFI’s impact on climate change.

• Disclosure 2008-2009
• Disclosure 2007-2008

KEA Campers

KEA Campers owns and operates a fleet of camper vans and motor homes for rental and sale. It maintains a modern fleet of vehicles by selling older vehicles to another camper van company and also to members of the public. KEA Campers provides its services from bases in Auckland and Christchurch. There is a total of 58 full time employees. KEA Campers NZ Ltd has sister companies in Australia and South Africa, and also purchases vehicles from KEA manufacturing. These are all independent companies that have no financial connection to each other. For KEA Campers, being a sustainable, environmentally-responsible company is about considering their carbon emissions.

• Disclosure 2008-2009

Palliser Estate Wines of Martinborough Limited

Palliser Estate is a boutique winery in the small Wairarapa village of Martinborough. We have been making ultra premium wines since our first vintage in 1989. We grow the varieties Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. We care about our environment, and we will do what we can to make as little impact as possible on this world we live in. We like it here and we’d hate to mess it up. So everything we do is designed to protect the environment in which our grapes grow. It is our environment that makes our wines. And it is our wines that make us. Achieving CEMARS certification under the carboNZero programme is an important step on our journey to sustainability and our goal to continually improve the environment we live and work in, and beyond.

• Disclosure 2008- 2009
• Disclosure 2007- 2008

Villa Maria Estate Limited

Villa Maria was founded in 1961 in Auckland and is New Zealand’s most awarded winery. The Auckland winery was opened in 2005 and hosts Villa Maria’s head office, bottling facility, conference and events centre and cellar door. Internationally acclaimed wine is produced from grapes grown in New Zealand’s main grape growing regions, with owned vineyards in Marlborough, Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and Auckland. Grapes are also sourced from contract growers. Villa Maria distributes wine throughout New Zealand as well as Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Villa Maria has a long held objective to be environmentally responsible and to operate using sustainable practices. Villa Maria has been a member of Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand (SWNZ) since its inception in 1995. Each year, Villa Maria is audited by SWNZ to provide a key platform for continuous improvement. All Villa Maria company vineyards and winery sites are either accredited by SWNZ or in the case of new sites, in the process of gaining accreditation. In addition to SWNZ, all Villa Maria's wineries are compliant with the environmental management system - ISO14001. Villa Maria is committed to continuing along the path of sustainability.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009

Wakatu Incorporation

Proprietors of Wakatu Limited trading as Wakatu Incorporation was formed in 1977 as a result of descendants of the original owners of the Tenths lands in Te Tau Ihu, top of the South, pooling together their shareholdings in the lands collectively, creating the Incorporation. These original lands are ‘Corpus lands’, and are not permitted to be sold. To become a shareholder in the Incorporation, you must be able to Whakapapa (trace your genealogy) back to one of these original owners. Today, Wakatu Incorporation has a strong presence economically, not only in Te Tau Ihu, but also in the rest of New Zealand, they also export produce worldwide. In Maori Tikanga (custom), you do not own the land; it owns you in a sense. When you die, you go back to the land from where you came, the land will always remain. Maori Tikanga also has key conservation themes running throughout. Wakatu Incorporation carries these themes within its purpose and values: To grow our economic base, enabling whanau (family) to achieve their social and cultural goals. In order to realise this dream, we will work to develop: "A business of the land and sea - he taonga tuku iho - for profit, social and cultural growth through professionalism, honesty and diligence and embracing our tikanga"

• Disclosure 2008-2009

Westpac New Zealand Limited

Westpac New Zealand Limited (Westpac) is a New Zealand incorporated subsidiary of Westpac Banking Corporation (based in Australia). Westpac has been operating in New Zealand since 1861 and is one of the country’s largest full service banks serving over 1.2 million active customers and employs over 5,500 people.  Westpac was a pioneer of sustainability reporting in New Zealand, producing its first Stakeholder Impact Report in 2003 and each subsequent year.  For five out of the last seven years Westpac has been named the number one bank in the world for sustainability by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and included in the global leadership index of the Carbon Disclosure Project for the last 5 years. Westpac is committed to assessing and reducing our impact on the environment and is the first bank in the world to receive CEMARS certification. Westpac is building sustainability into its everyday business practices and will be working closely with our suppliers to help us reduce our carbon emissions per active customer by 20% by 2012. We are doing this through a comprehensive four year emissions management and reduction plan.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009
• Disclosure 2007 - 2008
• Assurance statement 2007 - 2008

Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand (YHA)

YHA New Zealand is a not-for-profit incorporated society. We are a membership-based charitable organisation with a network of 53 hostels throughout New Zealand from the far north to right down south to a proposed eco-friendly hostel and learning centre on Stewart Island. 25 of these hostels are owned and operated by YHA New Zealand; the remainder of the YHA network consists of Associate partnerships with independently owned and operated hostels that operate under the YHA brand and follow YHA’s standards of quality and consistency, including its sustainability initiatives. Over its history, YHA New Zealand has developed its hostel network in support of its charitable purpose. Our network not only supports and facilitates travel; it also promotes knowledge and understanding through the social interaction stimulated by our hostels’ communal living and recreational areas. YHA also actively educate customers and members through our pervasive expression and commitment to environmental sustainability, for which the Association has received many awards and accolades over the years. YHA is committed to being an exemplar for social and environmental sustainability.

• Disclosure 2008 - 2009