Corporate Stewardship of Urban Green Space: A Sanofi Pasteur Case Study

Corporations stewarding green spaces, termed corporate stewardship, is a new idea being implemented by Sanofi Pasteur, part of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. In 2019, Sanofi Pasteur initiated a project to steward a section of the City of Toronto’s G. Ross Lord Park located in a northern Toronto ravine. There is essentially no information available on corporate stewardship to help guide plans, practices and partnerships, especially in urban centres. Thus, there is a pressing need to provide a framework to implement stewardship plans and to measure their success given the growing interest in private corporate stewardship such as Sanofi’s. The current paper develops a strategic stewardship plan for Sanofi Pasteur and sets out a new framework to help guide corporate stewardship success. A ‘criteria-and- indicators’ approach from urban forest management planning (Kenney et al. 2011) was adapted to identify key activities, timelines, and measure the progress of the work for the company to implement over the next three years (2022, 2023, 2024) in their 5-year stewardship commitment