Like most community-based groups, Australian Conservation Foundation believes that businesses have a responsibility to ensure that their behaviour meets the community's expectations for a clean, healthy, productive and diverse environment for this and future generations. Corporate Australia owes this responsibility to shareholders who risk losing money as a consequence of poor practices and to communities who pay the highest price for a degraded environment. Yet only a handful of Australia's largest companies seem to have come to terms with their responsibilities. In fact, if the country's top 100 companies - whose environmental performance and commitment to sustainability has been assessed annually by ACF since 20001 - are representative of the corporate sector as a whole, only six percent of Australian firms would score a pass mark or better! Clearly, there is much the corporate sector has to do to properly take up the opportunities that environmental leadership affords.
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