Sustainability

Scorecard

Our Sustainability Scorecard helps us to track our performance against our goals and targets. We integrated sustainability into Senior Management performance evaluations and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which are linked to remuneration.

Sunway teamed up with external partners, including NGOs, to sponsor close to RM101,000 to support the needs of communities impacted by flood disasters.
Invested more than RM550,000 through the Sunway Food Bank and Rise Against Hunger meal packing initiative.​
Provided sponsorship of more than RM2.5 million and organised a fundraising event to support the needs of cancer patients.​
Set up 15 libraries at schools and orphanages with B40 students through Sunway READ programme.​
40% of our Board of Directors in 2022 were women.​
In 2022, we consumed
more than 1.38 million m3 of water from the water treatment plant in Sunway City Kuala Lumpur. This was equivalent to more than 540 Olympic-sized swimming pools
The total energy generated from our solar assets in 2022 was equivalent to powering up 1,343 homes for one year.​
Sunway provided employment to more than 11,000 people in 2022 (4,511 new hires in 2022).
More than 100 students and staff participated in the Make-It-Challenge, an annual collaborative challenge to solve challenges revolving around the 17 UN-SDGs and Planetary Health.​
Sponsored RM12,900 to support para-athletes who competed in Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN) National Badminton Tournament and SUKMA XX MSN 2022.​
2 of our townships, Sunway City Kuala Lumpur and Sunway City Iskandar Puteri, have been green-certified by the Green Building Index (GBI).
We managed to divert 4% of our waste from landfills in 2022 .
31,117 tonnes
of CO2e
were avoided since 2015 Sunway aims to achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050.
Sunway Lagoon Theme
Park spent RM340,000 to conduct research on its lake and install the ‘Clean- Flo’ system to reverse the degradation and eutrophication process of the lake.
Sunway City
Kuala Lumpur provides a habitat for a total of 31,179 native plants and 142,291 adaptive plants. The city is also home to 22 species of birds and 12 species of reptiles and amphibians.
We have installed
more than 10,000 CCTVs in our townships in Malaysia and projects overseas, on top of employing about 1,082 auxiliary and plainclothes policemen and security guards.
Established the
UN-SDSN Asia Headquarters at Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, one of only three such global centres in the world, alongside New York City and Paris.
As a conglomerate, our various business divisions contribute to the achievement of all 17 SDGs.

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs

Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, USA; SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres; President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Honorary Professor; and Chairman of the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development at Sunway University.

Sunway is, by every standard, a world leader in sustainable development and an inspiration to businesses and civil societies around the world. In every major transformation needed for a thriving and sustainable future, Sunway is demonstrating remarkable global leadership, including the world-renowned Sunway University, the groundbreaking Sunway Medical Centre, the Sunway pathway to net zero emissions by 2050, the many Sunway innovations in sustainable land use, the development of Sunway cities of the future and the Sunway digital strategy. Sunway thrives because it prioritises human wellbeing and inspires the best in all of its stakeholders and admirers.

I deeply admire the philosophy of the Founder, Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah, that “one must have a higher purpose in life” and his conviction that “we can all do well by doing good”.