External participation

Where appropriate, we are committed to working with external organisations and initiatives that promote transparent reporting of non-financial metrics in the public interest. A key test is whether participating in these external initiatives complements and extends our own reporting in a meaningful way. Wesfarmers currently works with several external organisations and applies several reporting frameworks, including: 

• UN Global Compact 
• Sustainable Development Goals 
• Corporate Human Rights Benchmark 
• Australian Government Tax Transparency Code. Wesfarmers joined the Australian Government’s Tax Transparency initiative and became a signatory to the register of entities committing to lodge a Tax Transparency Report, publishing our first report in December 2016. In December 2020, we released our annual  2020 Tax Contribution Report ,which provides stakeholders with the necessary information concerning Wesfarmers' Australian Tax activities for the 2020 financial year 
• Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) . The DJSI tracks sustainability performance of leading companies around the world. In 2019, Wesfarmers was one of only 11 retail companies worldwide to be included in the DJSI World Index, one of only four retail companies in Asia Pacific to be included in the DJSI Asia Pacific Index and one of only two retail companies in Australia to be included in the DJSI Australia Index. A summary of DJSI's latest assessment of Wesfarmers sustainability performance can be found  here.