Environmental protection has become a globally urgent task. As a responsible corporate citizen, New World Group is actively concerned about and participates in environmental protection. For more information on environmental-related information of the Group, please visit http://www.greennewworld.com.hk
On 5 June, the New World Green Week 2011 held by New World Group had its kickoff ceremony in the K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong to coincide the World Environment Day. The Second New World Green Week, with its theme "Scuppies Spirit", promotes green living among the public and staff of the Group through various green activities. Mr Wong Yiu-Kam, Benny, Deputy Director of Environmental Protection, HKSAR Government; Mr Chen Guan-Zhan, Gary, General Manager of NWD and Mr Chan Ching-Pong, Kelvin, Assistant General Manager, Operation of K11 officiated the kickoff ceremony. The kickoff ceremony was a carbon neutral event with certificate issued by Carbon Care Asia. Carbon emissions incurred in the event was offset through our support to the Northwest Sichuan Afforestation and Reforestation Project. To visualize the Scuppies Spirit, the Group has launched the Scuppies website (www.newworldscuppies.com.hk) and distributed free copies of Scuppies pamphlets during the New World Green Week.
New World Group and Greeners Action are co-organizing the "Make it Green! Product Design Competition". Targeting at changing peoples' wasteful habits, participants are expected to create novel and practical green products for the competition. They are encouraged to undergo environmentally-friendly considerations when choosing materials, such as using recyclable materials, considering their life cycle and extraction process and reusing materials. The competition comprises three categories, namely the Junior High School Category, the Senior High School Category and the Open Category. Champion teams will be invited to a Taiwan Green Tour. Experiencing the green culture there, the winners will sow the seed of environmental care when back in Hong Kong, raising peoples' concern about our environment and putting green insights into actions.
About 200 submissions were received with astonishing ideas of the green advocates who are bold to execute their boundless creativity. The award presenting ceremony of the competition was held successfully on 5 June 2011. Judges of the competition, Mr Cheng Man-Si, Jason, Representative from Board of Director of Greeners Action, and Professor Siu King-Chung, Assistant Professor of School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, were invited to present the awards to winners as token of appreciation. To encourage the public to reduce over-consumption on natural resources and contribute to the Earth creatively, the winning products were displayed at K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong and Discovery Park Shopping Centre in June 2011.
On 17 May, to align with the Group’s commitment to protecting the enviornment in an innovative way, a brand new platform “New World Group Green e-Change Platform” has been launched at the Group’s intranet for colleagues in Hong Kong in May 2011. Users can offer their items which are no longer in need to other colleagues, serving the purpose of recycling and strengthening the bonding and harmony among colleagues.
On 27 May, New World Group Environmental Committee held a site visit to St. Bonaventure Catholic Primary School, which clinched the Gold Award in the Primary School Category of the “2009 Hong Kong Awards of Environmental Excellence Sectoral Awards” for its achievement in minimizing food-waste and effective implementation of internal green education. Other than visiting the School’s famous “Zero Food-Waste Canteen”, participants also visited various green facilities in the campus, such as green roof, organic farm and compost, gaining much inspiration.
On 26 March, New World Group fully supported “Earth Hour 2011”, organized by WWF, in 73 premises of the Group in Hong Kong and Mainland China, by switching off their non-essential lights for an hour from 8:30pm, showing the Group’s obligation to carbon reduction and environmental protection. The participating properties included landmarks like HKCEC, K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong, The Masterpiece, The Avenue of Star, Beijing New World Centre, Dalian New World Tower and Shanghai Hong Kong New World Tower, Wuhan K11 Art Mall and more.
Apart from encouraging all property projects located in 20 cities to participate jointly in this event, NWCL also encouraged its employees and 70,000 property owners to switch off all lights in their residence and called for a gradual low-carbon life in their daily practice.
Supporting the "Order less, Waste less" food waste reduction scheme, New World Group has reduced two main courses in the spring dinner and will encourage staff to bring leftovers home with their own food containers. Representative from the Group attended the launch event called "Order less, Waste less year-end Reception".
Other than reducing food waste, the Group will abandon shark fin soup in the menu and also offset the carbon emissions incurred in the event through supporting the Northwest Sichuan Afforestation and Reforestation Project, Yunnan Dujiacun Small Hydropower Project and Ningxia Yinyi 49.50 MW Wind-farm Project, making the event a carbon neutral one with the help from Carbon Care Asia.
To echo the Minimising Waste, Maximising the Future Campaign - Green Reminders Programme, the New World Group has increased the number of recycling bins in its premises, such as K11 Art Mall, Discovery Park Shopping Centre and Youth Square. The Group has also put up posters and messages at relevant locations to remind members of the public to discard waste properly into recycling bins and spread the waste reduction message. Representative from the Group attended the launch event on 8 January 2011 to show its support.
Through participating in the programme, the Group aims at encouraging people for their participation in reducing and recycling waste in their daily lives.
New World Group has signed the "Conscientious Recycling Charter" in April 2010, committing to supporting the proper recycling of e-waste, as the wrong and unconscionable processing of e-waste such as computers, electrical waste and electronic equipment may cause hazardous harm to the environment. The Group also sent representative to attend the kick off ceremony of "Conscientious Recycling Charter" on 26 September, 2010.
As at 31st December 2010, the Group has collected 950 pieces of used computers and have sent them to the proper recycling channels verified by the Environmental Protection Department. The Group will continue to support "Conscientious Recycling Charter" in 2011, committed to supporting the proper handling of e-waste.
In recognition of the Group's efforts to waste reduction, various group companies of New World Group were awarded different environmental labels by Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (HKAEE) in 2010.
Group companies awarded the "Class of Excellence" Wastewi$e Label include: New World First Ferry, New World First Ferry (Macau) and Grand Hyatt Hong Kong.
Besides, New World First Bus, a subsidiary of NWS Holdings, was awarded the Energywi$e Label in HKAEE 2010 in recognition of its outstanding performance in energy conservation.
New World Group established the Group Environmental Committee responsible for formulating green objectives and policies and up-to-date green strategies, driving to materialize the environmental and social responsibilities across the Group, keeping the Group abreast of the latest trend of corporate environmental measures and leading the Group to attain the goal of a Green Conglomerate. The Green Office Committee and Carbon Reduction Taskforce are both under the Group Environmental Committee.
New World Group is committed to:
New World Development was awarded "Class of Excellence" Wastewi$e Label by Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (HKAEE) in August 2009 in recognition of our waste reduction efforts in the past year.
The HKAEE aims at encouraging businesses and organizations to adopt green management and presenting them with a unique opportunity to benchmark their commitment towards environmental protection. With the cooperation and efforts of all our colleagues and Green Officers in maintaining a green office in the past year, New World Development has successfully achieved 11 committed goals in waste reduction. In support of our mission in environmental protection, we will continue to adopt a series of measures in bringing a green future.
New World Group is committed to protecting the environment and in support of "6.21 Dim it" campaign organized by Friends of Earth (HK), 61 buildings under the Group have signed the Dim It Charter, initiated by Friends of Earth (HK), to pledge to reduce the use of energy and support the reduction of light pollution. 61 buildings under the Group participated in the Charter including HKCEC, New World Centre, Avenue of Star, Discovery Park Shopping Centre, etc, promised to support the activity by switching off outdoor neon signs or decorative lightings from midnight to save energy consumption from 21 June onwards.
In addition, some of the buildings also participated in the Dim It Brighten Up event, organized by Friends of Earth (HK) on 21 June, to switch off the lights for two hours starting from 8pm, turning the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade into the biggest star station.
New World Group has supported the "Green Hong Kong – Carbon Audit Campaign" initiated by the Environmental Protection Department of HKSAR. On 3 July, Kwan Chuk-Fai, Group Director-Corporate Affairs of the Group, was invited to the first anniversary of the Campaign. With the concerted-effort of government and corporates to carry out carbon audit and carbon management measures, it is believed that a lower carbon emission level and a Greener Hong Kong will be achieved year by year.
Striving to contribute a nice blue sky to Hong Kong, the Group signed the "Clean Air Charter", a joint effort by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Kong Business Coalition on the Environment, in November 2006, as its commitment to the improvement of the quality of air. In July 2008, the Group became one of the first "Carbon Audit - Green Partners" carried out by the Environmental Protection Department. Under the "Carbon Reduction Charter", the Group has agreed to conduct or assist carbon audit on its buildings, and to launch relevant carbon reduction campaigns in the coming two years.
