MPIC Shares Sustainability Goals To Global Audience

Metro Pacific Investments Corp., the country's leading infrastructure investments company, has shared its innovative take in its avowed policy of integrating a holistic approach to its sustainability framework for the Philippines.

Photo Insert (left to right): WBA Executive Director Gerbrand Haverkamp; WBA Engagement Director Pauliina Murphy; Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa Sebastiaan Messerschmidt; MPIC Chief Finance, Risk, and Sustainability Officer Chaye Cabal-Revilla; African Monitor Senior Programmes Coordinator Joseph Eliabson; Western Cape Education Department Deputy Director General Haroon Mohamed.

MPIC, represented by its Chief Finance, Risk, and Sustainability Officer Chaye A. Cabal-Revilla, joined the World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA) Allies’ Assembly 2022 as a speaker and panelist in Cape Town, South Africa where she unveiled the company's successful sustainability strategies for the Philippines.

At this global and multi-stakeholder panel discussion, as the representative from the business side, Cabal-Revilla shared MPIC’s sustainability journey of integrating a holistic approach to its core business strategies and its sustainability-linked advocacies to a multi-stakeholder group of over 100 delegates from local, regional, and international organizations.

“With our businesses providing essential services to the Filipinos, we recognize our responsibility to drive positive change and collective action to create a pervasive impact. We are committed to bolster our sustainability efforts and be an instrument to our country’s sustainable development,” Cabal-Revilla emphasized.

MPIC was included early this year as part of the WBA’s SDG2000, the 2000 most influential companies that shape the future in relation to their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is an international not-for-profit organization working to build a movement to measure and incentivize business impact towards a sustainable future that works for everyone. They do so by developing free and publicly available benchmarks that compare the private sector’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

These benchmarks inform and empower business leaders and investors, as well as governments, civil society, and other key stakeholders. Every January since 2020, the WBA publishes the SDG2000 list, which outlines the 2000 companies that have the most influence in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs.

Through this, WBA's insights and data serve as an accountability mechanism, incentivizing companies to become successful drivers of change and deliver on the SDGs.

Together with their 300+ global and multi-stakeholder Alliance, they are building a movement that enables transparent dialogue, and ultimately action toward a more inclusive, fair, and sustainable world.

The Allies Assembly is their annual gathering to bring this international community together to reflect on learnings and challenges; engage multi-stakeholders within and beyond the network to raise ambition and create an impact on the ground for the evolution of this movement for business action towards the global goals.

The 2022 Assembly was built on the theme of “Community Building”, with an aim to inspire global and diverse partnerships to drive collective action on sustainable development.

At the plenary, four other notable speakers including Western Cape Education Department Deputy Director General Haroon Mohamed, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa Sebastiaan Messerschmidt, Senior Programmes Coordinator Joseph Eliabson from African Monitor, and WBA’s Executive Director Gerbrand Haverkamp, Cabal-Revilla delved into how MPIC is fulfilling its key role in contributing to collective action aligned with global benchmarks.

The plenary session highlighted dialogue between speakers from various backgrounds on how to shape and influence corporate accountability for the SDGs, answering the key learning question on how to use the power of collective action and data to close the accountability gap urgently on the global agenda with business, financial institutions, civil society, NGOs, industry associations, government, academia, and all other stakeholders.

“We were delighted to have MPIC represent the business voice in the panel and to hear how the company has embraced ‘EESG’ and are encouraging other companies to adopt a similar holistic approach. This was a wonderful illustration of the capacity of an SDG2000 company to really enable systems transformation. It was clear to our audience that through making sustainability the center of MPIC’s core business models, the company is making a concrete difference locally in the Philippines, but also elsewhere," Cabal-Revilla said.

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