Driving Environmental Excellence

In alignment with the Green Energy Target of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, we aim to reduce total energy consumption by 6% between 2020 and 2025. During the reporting year, the resumption of economic and social activities in a post-epidemic period led to an increase in the total energy consumption compared to the previous year. After normalisation under the Comparable Operational Conditions as defined by the Government, the energy performance in 2023/24 has been improved by 4.7% compared to the baseline year in 2018/19.

The EMSD's commitment to green procurement is reinforced by our adherence to the Government's green procurement policy and the ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System. During the reporting period, we recorded a total of 59 newly registered suppliers that offer environmentally friendly products, thereby increasing the overall count of environmentally friendly suppliers on our supplier list to 552. Of the total purchase volume amounting to 748.75 million, 212.29 million (28.35%) was allocated to green products.