Businesses We Work With

The Armstrong S.E. Asia Clean Energy Fund

Armstrong S.E. Asia Clean Energy Fund

The Armstrong S.E. Asia Clean Energy Fund is a private equity fund that invests in small-scale renewable energy and resource efficiency projects in Southeast Asia. This strategy is driven by the high energy demand and strong market fundamentals in the region. Armstrong Asset Management will seek to provide investors with a gross return in excess of 20% per annum.

The geographic focus of the Armstrong S.E. Asia Clean Energy Fund is principally in three countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The Manager can allocate up to 25% of the funds gross assets outside these primary countries but within Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Vietnam.

The investment strategy is based on the key features summarised below:
• An obvious market need supported by strong economic fundamentals
• A commitment to positive social and environmental impact
• Risk minimisation through a portfolio of small-scale projects
• No technology risk
• The ability to generate early cash flows
• Excellent entry valuations due to lack of investor competition
• Competitive advantage as a result of the team’s local operating experience
• A clear exit strategy.

For more information, visit www.armstrongam.com

City Developments Limited (CDL)

City Developments Limited

As Singapore's property pioneer, CDL is a listed international property and hotel conglomerate with an impressive track record of over 22,000 luxurious and quality homes to its name.

Beyond shaping the cityscape with award-winning architectural icons such as The Sail @ Marina Bay, The Oceanfront @ Sentosa Cove and St. Regis Residences, Singapore, over the past four decades, CDL has been leading the industry with green building innovation since the 1990s. Supporting the conservation of nature and the environment is complementary to our business commitment and CDL is proud to be a member of WWF’s Business Alliance for Sustainability.

Testament to its commitment towards sustainable development and exceptional contributions towards Singapore’s built environment, CDL was awarded the Building and Control Authority (BCA) Green Mark Champion Award in 2008 and the BCA Built Environment Leadership Platinum Award in 2009 respectively.

In championing the green cause, CDL not only focuses on engaging its stakeholders and the wider community through various platforms – but also in cultivating environmental consciousness and action amongst the next generation.

For more information, visit www.cdl.com.sg.

Credit Suisse

Through a global working relationship, Credit Suisse and WWF are collaborating on a number of initiatives including on forest conservation and climate change.

Credit Suisse staff fundraising in 2008 enabled ecological field surveys through late 2010 that helped to inform and strengthen the conservation management of an amazing natural forest area in Peninsular Malaysia. Credit Suisse has been supporting land use mapping in the Heart of Borneo strategic area since 2009, and in March 2011 was a co-sponsor of Singapore Earth Hour 2011.

Credit Suisse Group is a world-leading financial services company, offering investment banking, private banking and asset management services to clients worldwide.

Credit Suisse started operating in Singapore in 1973. Today Singapore represents our fourth largest location globally and our largest in the Asia-Pacific region. Singapore is also home to our largest – and award-winning – wealth management operation outside of Switzerland, and is a hub of much of our investment banking and asset management activity in the region.

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GreenPost

GreenPost is the first ever service that allows for everyone to get all their bills electronically in one place. When people use GreenPost they are comfortable to ask their biller to ‘stop the envelopes’. And it is free.

In Singapore alone, more than 200 million pages of paper are wasted every year from telecommunications and utilities bills and envelopes alone. GreenPost is targeting to save 40 million pages of paper in next 3 years, leading to savings of thousands of trees and millions of litres of water that are consumed in paper production.

GreenPost is proud to partner with WWF Singapore. 2% of GreenPost's revenue is donated to WWF Singapore for its environmental awareness programs. GreenPost also provides pro-bono social media promotion for WWF Singapore.

Register at www.gogreenpost.com for your free account today. Also look for GreenPost mobile apps. Together we can make a real impact.

Hewlett Packard

In November 2006, WWF and HP began collaborating on several pioneering initiatives to address the causes and consequences of climate change. Through WWF’s Climate Savers program, HP officials pledged to reduce emissions from operations and the use of its products by six million tons below 2005 levels by 2010.

More recently in Asia Pacific, with the HP dx2810 special edition desktops, HP, while promoting its environmental responsibility, is supporting WWF’s Coral Triangle programme. For each desktop sold across 10 countries in Asia Pacific, the company is donating USD 10 in help WWF’s work in the Coral Triangle. HP donation will be channeled towards a climate change programme called “Climate Witness in Action” a global initiative that puts a human face to climate change impacts while promoting local and global climate change solutions.

HSBC

At a global level, HSBC and WWF are working together to reduce the impact of climate change on people and livelihoods by promoting action under 'The HSBC Climate Partnership’, a five-year partnership launched in 2007 between HSBC and The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and WWF to combat the threat of climate change by inspiring action by individuals, businesses and governments worldwide. This builds on the previous collaboration, Investing in Nature, which concluded in 2006. In Singapore, HSBC is a founding member of the WWF Corporate Club.

Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world with around 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories. Its presence in Singapore dates back to 1877.

Ikea

In 2002, WWF and Ikea began a 3-year global co-operation to jointly promote responsible forestry in priority regions around the world. The 5 years of technical co-operation has seen the two organizations worked together on a series of forest, cotton and climate projects in many countries.

In Singapore in April 2007, Ikea took a stand of no longer offering free plastic bags in its stores. All the proceeds from the campaign will be donated to WWF and will be used to explore, support and develop alternative sustainable community livelihoods from forest products. Deforestation and the slash and burn clearing methods sometimes practiced are some of the very causes of the haze that on regular interval engulfs the region including Singapore. The project aims to create a successful sustainable alternative livelihood model that can be replicated, scaled up and distributed to as many communities as possible. By creating best practices examples the wider natural environment, its biodiversity and the primary service to the communities can be preserved.

Headquartered in Sweden, Ikea designs and produces a wide range home furnishing products, employing 118,000 co-workers in 40 countries.

Jebsen & Jessen

Jebsen & Jessen(SEA) embarked on a partnership with WWF Singapore as part of the company ‘Meet a Need’ programme. Every year, selected Jebsen & Jessen staffs are taking a week away from their desks to volunteer and learn about nature conservation in South East Asia. In 2007, company's volunteers participated in the turtle conservation project of WWF Malaysia in Melaka and in 2008, they joined forces with WWF Vietnam and Cat Tien National Park planting trees and helping to restore the natural biodiversity of the park. Jebsen & Jessen (SEA) has also joined WWF Singapore as a founding member of its Corporate Club.

Jebsen & Jessen (SEA) offers a diversified range of products and services throughout South East Asia through seven distinct business units - Chemicals, Communications, Life Sciences, Marketing, Material Handling, Packaging and Technology.

Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang Lasalle

Jones Lang LaSalle plans to support WWF’s conservation efforts through its “ACT for a Cleaner Tomorrow” e-campaign. In November 2008, the firm encouraged its employees, clients, and partners around the world to act for the climate and make a commitment to reduce their carbon emissions. In addition, each participant also had the opportunity to vote for one of the three WWF conservation programs short-listed by the Firm: the Arctic, the Coral Triangle, or the Amazon. Jones Lang LaSalle will contribute a grant to the WWF program that received the most votes. If you wish to participate, please click here.

Committed to being the leader in the real estate industry in environmental sustainability and energy management, both for us, our clients, and within our own organization, Jones Lang LaSalle has implemented pioneering sustainable practices around the world.

Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specializing in real estate services and investment management. The company operates in 750 locations in 60 countries with more than 30,000 staff members.

Nokia

At the global level, Nokia and WWF signed an agreement in 2003 to raise staff awareness on environmental issues. The two organizations continued working together to drive environmental awareness and to find new ways to enhance Nokia's environmental performance as well as support WWF's conservation goals. In Singapore, Nokia is a founding member of WWF Corporate Club.

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. They make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing their offering of consumer Internet services, as well as enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of focus.

If every mobile phone user recycled just one phone, together we would save 240,000 tonnes of raw materials. Drop-off your old phone, battery or charger at the Nokia booth at the Earth Hour concert or any Nokia Care Centre & Nokia will take care of the rest. In addition, for every phone recycled, Nokia in partnership with WWF will plant a tree in your name and you could watch it grow through Google Earth.

Olam

In 2008, Olam joined as founding member of WWF Singapore Corporate Club. WWF is also in discussion with Olam to identify strategic areas whereby a joint collaboration will improve the chain of custody and build on existing sustainability policies as part of Olam's business model.

Olam is a global supply chain manager of agricultural products and food ingredients, operating an integrated supply chain for 14 products sourcing from over 56 origin countries including cocoa, coffee, cashew, sheanuts, sesame, rice and teak wood.

PwC

PwC

Providing organisations with the advice they need, PwC China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan work together on a collaborative basis and collectively have around 620 partners and a strength of 14,000 people.

At PwC, we believe that no organisation should pursue commercial success at the expense of the community or environment. Beyond that, we actively embrace the private sector's responsibility to operate in ways that benefit society and foster its well-being on sustainable basis.

PwC has been supporting WWF’s initiatives for a number of years. Globally, we have participated in the Earth Hour since its launch in 2007 and now with the Corporate Membership Program partnership, we are enhancing our cooperation to help address climate change risks.

The Body Shop

On the occasion of the opening of their first eco-friendly store in the world, The Body Shop Singapore has engaged with WWF to support the organisation’s conservation efforts in the Heart of Borneo and raise awareness on the importance of using sustainable palm oil. In 2007, The Body Shop became the first cosmetics and toiletries retailer to introduce sustainable palm oil into the global beauty industry. The company made its pioneering move as a response to the continued and rapid destruction of the world’s ancient rainforests caused by irresponsible palm oil production. The Body Shop has been a leading figure on the global Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2004.

Throughout its 38 stores in Singapore, The Body Shop has pledged 10% on the sale of its bare of soap – made from sustainable palm oil - to support WWF’s Heart of Borneo programme for a year, starting on July 2009.