Sustainability at Haben.
For us, sustainability isn’t a checkbox… it’s a commitment to shaping a better future through every decision we make.
Haben’s Sustainability Strategy reflects our unwavering commitment to embedding ESG at the heart of our operations.
To drive meaningful outcomes across the business, we’ve adopted a holistic approach that sets a clear and strategic direction while recognising the unique operational contexts of our local assets and teams.
Our ESG framework is aligned with leading national and international standards, empowering us to embrace sustainability and unlock long-term value.
In line with our core value of Integrity, we are committed to transparency and accountability – beginning in FY26 we will report annually against this Strategy to ensure we uphold the highest level of governance and performance.
How Haben is committing to sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting: FY26 will be our first year publishing a sustainability report. We will adopt the Global Reporting Initiative as our guiding framework for sustainability reporting.
- Disclosures: We will submit our first Modern Slavery Statement in 2025, and Haben will commence Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards in Group 1, and National Greenhouse & Energy Reporting Act (NGER) in 2026.
- Frameworks & certifications: Haben supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and we have aligned our Strategy to the 17 Global Goals. Haben certifies all assets for NABERS energy and water. Several centres also have Green Star certifications.
Our pillars
- Environment: Resilience, emissions, energy, water, biodiversity, resources
- Social: Diversity, equity and inclusion, community engagement and human capital
- Governance: Human rights, responsible investment, sustainable procurement, corporate governance
Initiatives | FY26 targets and future focuses
Environment
- Resilience: Complete climate-risk assessments and adopt a resilience plan for every asset and identify climate-related transition risks. Future focus: Fully integrate climate-risk management into business operations and adopt climate resilience targets.
- Energy: Complete asset-level assessments to identify energy reduction opportunities and maintain NABERS energy ratings across the portfolio, aiming for 4.5+ Star. Future focus: Adopt energy targets and develop an electrification plan.
- Nature: Complete a biodiversity and nature-related assessment of the portfolio and identify opportunities for enhancement. Future focus: Complete nature-based risk assessments and adopt resilience plans for every asset.
- Emissions: Net Zero by 2035*, reforecast Haben’s carbon footprint for Scopes 1-3 and formalise a baseline. Future focus: Adopt emissions reduction targets.
- Water: Maintain NABERS water rating across the portfolio, aiming for 4+ Star. Future focus: Develop an integrated water management plan to improve capture and reuse.
- Resources: Develop a waste management plan enabling all assets to separate waste streams. Future focus: Adopt circularity targets.
Social
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Adopt a DEI strategy designed to increase diversity and equity, while fostering a culture of inclusion. Future focuses: Establish benchmark WGEA performance and transparently report our progress. Complete a Design with Dignity assessment for all assets and prepare an implementation Plan.
- Human Capital: Establish a baseline for employee wellbeing and engagement and for all employees to undertake annual ESG training. Future focuses: Adopt targets for employee wellbeing and engagement and investigate a giving and volunteering program for staff involvement.
- Community: Establish a baseline tenant satisfaction, and plan for future engagement and prepare a Community Plan and performance targets. Future focuses: Adopt engagement and community targets and adopt a tenant satisfaction target.
Governance
- Human Rights: Adopt a Human Rights Statement and develop and implement a Modern Slavery Management Plan. Future focus: Develop and publish a Reconciliation Action Plan and Connecting to Country Framework.
- Sustainable Procurement: Develop a sustainable procurement framework and identify opportunities for spend with First Nations owned businesses. Future focus: Adopt sustainable procurement targets.
- Responsible Investment: Establish a due diligence framework to align investments with ESG commitments. Future focus: Track and report community investments and/or social value creation.
- Corporate Governance: Improve accessibility of our Whistleblower policy and adopt an industry recognised reporting framework and publish first Sustainability Report. Future focuses: Incorporate ESG principles into all business policies, procedures and guidelines and review opportunities for external benchmarking.
As at September 2025.