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Sustainability Report 2011
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint & Conserving
Resources
Our Carbon Footprint
Ever since the completion of our first carbon audit in 2008, we carry out carbon
inventory and accounting exercises on an ongoing basis. This practice was also
extended to our mainland businesses in 2009. Spurred on as one of Hong Kong’s first
Carbon Audit, Green Partners under the government’s Green Hong Kong, Carbon Audit
programme and a key endorser of its Carbon Reduction Charter, the audit was carried
out in line with the government’s Guidelines to Account for and Report on Greenhouse
Gas Emissions and Removal for Buildings in Hong Kong and The Greenhouse Gas
Protocol from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World
Resource Institute.
At the same time, making sure that the audit met the highest global standards, they
were also verified under ISO 14064-1 specifications in 2008. The audit has been
invaluable – not only did it provide a baseline for the calculation of carbon emissions
resulting from the gas production process, it also enabled the establishment of carbon
inventory accounting procedures.
Environmental Performance Reducing Our Carbon Footprint & Conserving Resources
Manufacture
Preprocessing
of product
components
Assembling
Road Transport
Sea Freight
Waste
Landfill
Recycling
Raw material
Acquisition of
raw materials
Consumer use
Disposal /
Recycling
Storage &
Distribution
Road Transport
Storage
Distribution
Installation
Waste
Road Transport
Road Transport
Usage
Product Life Cycle of our Gas Appliances