Sustainability at the Core
Key messages from Chairman, CEO, and Vice Chairman, Sustainability
LIM Boon Heng
Chairman, Temasek Holdings
“We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. 2022 has been the most challenging year for markets over the last decade. Against a backdrop of restrictive macro policy, lower growth, and a highly polarised geopolitical environment, the world is changing rapidly. Climate change remains an existential threat and time is running out to address it. Companies and governments can no longer sit on the sidelines. All of us must play an active role in solving shared global challenges as businesses cannot succeed unless societies thrive.
Temasek’s Purpose – So Every Generation Prospers – is our North Star. Our Purpose is embedded in everything we do and ensures we do our part to build a better, more inclusive, and sustainable world.”
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Dilhan Pillay SANDRASEGARA
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Holdings & Temasek International
“The climate agenda has become more urgent. Businesses, governments, multilateral agencies, philanthropic organisations, investors, and societies need to collectively accelerate efforts to scale decarbonisation efforts and low carbon solutions, taking into account the immediate need for energy security and uplifting of communities where access and affordability present challenges which are insurmountable without external assistance and funding. While Industry 4.0 has boosted productivity, it has also led to rising inequality and the need to partner business transformation with workforce transformation. The advent of generative AI could magnify opportunities and bring with it challenges, with social, economic, and political consequences that will need to be addressed. We will need to ensure that there is sustainable and inclusive growth, so that this and future generations can prosper.”
Steve HOWARD
Vice Chairman, Sustainability, Temasek International
“Given the urgency, scale and breadth of the necessary transitions, governments, corporations and investors need to work together to define transition roadmaps as well as promote and drive adoption of new solutions. We are making good progress with our decarbonisation initiatives to help safeguard the future of humanity and contribute to a bright future for current and future generations. We need to act now and together to solve the climate challenge, reverse nature loss and help create a more inclusive society.”
Our Purpose
Our Purpose “So Every Generation Prospers” guides us to make a difference for today’s and future generations. Our Temasek Charter defines our three roles as an Investor, Institution and Steward, and shapes our ethos to do well, do right and do good. Read more about our Purpose, Charter and Values here.
Sustainability is at the core of all that we do — from our mandate to deliver sustainable value over the long term, to our strategy of how we operate as an institution, shape our portfolio, and engage our portfolio companies to build sustainable businesses. We are committed to catalysing solutions to global challenges and activating capital – financial, human, social and natural – to bring about a better and more inclusive world for all.
Key Milestones in Our Sustainability Journey
In recent years, we have made progress and achieved several milestones along our journey to embed sustainability in everything that we do. In doing so, we have moved closer to our targets and goals.
Sustainability Strategy & Governance
Sustainability in Our Investments
Sustainability in Our Operations