PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

Environmental Policy Principles		Divisional Response
1. Comply with all relevant environmental laws or, in the absence of legislation, seek out and observe accepted best international practice as appropriate.		Observe and comply with all relevant environmental laws and statutory code of practice in Hong Kong in the planning, design and construction of our property developments. Seek to influence adoption of best practice if no laws/codes of practice are available.
2. Employ a corporate-wide Environmental Management System (EMS) to continuously monitor and manage environmental impacts, and to conduct regular reviews on the range of environmental issues that require monitoring.		Adopt measures to cope with the Corporate Environmental Management System and set goals and targets for monitoring performance and continual improvement.
3. Conduct Environmental Impact Assessments for new projects, where required by law and suggested by best practice, and implement the recommendations.		Conduct environmental impact assessment for new property developments, where required by law and as a matter of good practice, to address the environmental concerns during the planning phase and to implement the recommendations in the subsequent phases.
4. Ensure that contractors and partners will implement any recommendation to achieve acceptable environmental standards, train and encourage all our suppliers to adopt environmentally acceptable practices in the products and services provided.		¡P Urge and influence the joint venture developers towards implementing best practice based on international or other known environmental standards in the design and construction of our property developments. ¡P Influence our joint venture developers to minimize the use of resources, wherever practical and cost effective, in the design and construction of property developments and, where possible, ensure that the materials used are from sustainable sources. ¡P Influence our joint venture developers to minimize waste production in the subsequent phases of the property developments by adopting good design and construction methods. ¡P Influence our joint venture developers to enforce implementation of good environmental practices by their contractors and suppliers in the products and services provided in our property developments.
5. Educate and train staff in environmental matters and raise their environmental awareness.		Educate staff through attending training programmes on environmental matters so as to raise their environmental awareness and to keep abreast of latest development in environmental laws and best practice.
6. Educate passengers, legislators, opinion makers and the general public on the environmental benefits of railways.		Seek to influence Government policy towards exploiting possible environmental benefits in property developments.
7. Set environmental performance goals, arrange regular third-party environmental audits and publish the results with the aim of continuous improvement.		Adopt measures to cope with the Corporate Environmental Management System and set goals and targets for monitoring performance and continual improvement.
Integration		NA
Design		Influence our joint venture developers to minimize the use of resources, wherever practical and cost effective, in the design and construction of property developments and, where possible, ensure that the materials used are from sustainable sources.
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