ESG Strategy and B Corp Certification with YourLand

The partnership between YourLand and Anthesis has significantly focused their sustainability efforts, rapidly advancing them towards B Corp Certification

29th May 2024

Our partnership with Anthesis marks a significant milestone in YourLand’s journey towards B Corp Certification. This comprehensive approach not only aligns with best practice but also ensures that we focus our efforts where they matter most – driving impactful change and securing long-term viability for our communities and the environment. This commitment underscores our dedication to creating resilient, thriving communities that our residents love to call home.

Dean Gold, Chief Operating Officer YourLand Developments

YourLand Developments (YourLand) is one of Victoria’s leading private property developers, committed to delivering high-quality communities that residents love to call home.

For over 15 years, YourLand has been committed to social and environmental sustainability, creating resilient communities and uplifting environmental health through thoughtful product choices and sustainability initiatives.

To ground this vision in best practice, YourLand set out to understand its most material Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues and begin its journey towards B Corp Certification.

YourLand engaged Anthesis to lead them through an ESG materiality assessment and to develop their first formal sustainability strategy. The goal was to identify and prioritise YourLand’s sustainability issues, align those outcomes to B Corp’s five-pillar ESG framework, and then build out an ESG strategy that served jointly as a B Corp improvement plan. The alignment between ESG and B Corp has presented challenges resolved by Anthesis’ specialist consultants, including B Consultants.

The materiality assessment was strengthened through stakeholder engagement, including a workshop undertaken by a broad group of YourLand staff, leadership, and key investors to further understand and prioritise material topics.

Once the material topics were identified, Anthesis identified, prioritised, and finalised indicators, targets, and an ESG action plan for YourLand to follow for the near-term (Year 1 – Year 3) and long-term (2030). All actions were mapped to corresponding B Corp questions, GRI disclosure codes, and UN SDGs and targets.

This project has tethered YourLand’s strategy to best practice, simplifying any future reporting needs. The YourLand and Anthesis’ partnership has enabled YourLand to focus their sustainability efforts where it matters most, rapidly progressing them toward B Corp Certification.