RICS Annual Review 2012

Wholly devoted to
corporate responsibility
Be recognised
as a leader in
‘responsible
business’
practices
Responsible action is at the heart of everything we do at
RICS. As a global professional body governed by a Royal
Charter requiring us to promote the public interest, RICS
is – by definition – wholly devoted to corporate responsibility.
UN Global Compact
principles has provided us with an ideal framework for
understanding challenges and opportunities on the way to
demonstrable leadership as a responsible business. We
the Children consultation on Children’s Rights and Business
Principles in March and as a signatory to the Internships
Code of Best Practice we stressed the importance of young
workers’ rights in our sector.
We were commissioned by the Food and Agriculture
on how to mainstream leading academic institutions in
the implementation of the voluntary guidelines on the
responsible governance of tenure of land, forests and
fisheries in the context of food security.
Sustainable Buildings Climate Initiative) forming the basis
for closer collaboration in the future.
Embedding sustainability in land, real estate
and the built environment
Initiative) announced alignment of goals in order to
integrate sustainability principles into valuations and
decisions about investment.