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Sustainability Report 2016
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In mainland China, the government has clean
energy policies in place to reduce emissions. In
parallel with rapid business expansion, Towngas
is committed to adhering to compliance and
regulations. In 2016, our piped city gas businesses
covered a total of 23 provinces, autonomous
regions and municipalities, and served over
23 million customers. Our expanding city-gas
network offers cleaner fuel options with lower
carbon emissions.
Mainland China
Energy consumption is always a major operating
expense at our data centres. Our subsidiary,
Towngas Telecommunications Company
Limited (TGT), always strives for environmental
sustainability especially through the operation of
its data centres and building strategy. Its efforts
were well-recognised in 2016. TGT was granted a
Certificate of Excellence in HSBC Living Business
Awards 2016 - Green Achievement Award. TGT
also received the world-renowned U.S. Green
Building Council’s LEED for Core and Shell Gold
Level Certification and Pre-certification for its TGT
Dalian Data Centre 1 and TGT Harbin Data Centre
1 respectively.
Group GHG Emissions
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Scope 1 -Direct GHG
Emissions (Tonnes CO
2
-e)
859,000
927,000
728,000
804,000
797,000
Scope 2 -Energy-related
Indirect GHG Emissions
(Tonnes CO
2
-e)
399,000
378,000
300,000
284,000
258,000
Remarks:
•
Scope 1 - Fuel consumption of production plants, vehicle fleets etc.
•
Scope 2 - Electricity consumption of production plants, offices, customer centres, gas refilling stations and data centers etc.
•
The reported GHG emissions data covers the operations within and outside Hong Kong. The data is consolidated on an equity
basis.