30 Swire tenants join green drive

Swire Properties (1972) said office tenants covering over 1.5 million square feet have signed up for the developer's "Green Performance Pledge" to promote energy, water, and waste reduction in just 10 months.

Since the launch of the pilot in August 2021, 30 office tenants - representing 20 percent of occupied lettable floor area from the company's Hong Kong office portfolio - have signed up, it said in a statement yesterday.

Participants come from Taikoo Place, Pacific Place, and One Citygate, and span a wide range of industries such as banking and finance, legal, information technology, and consumer brands, it added.

Swire Properties aims to engage half of the office tenants in Hong Kong and China by 2025.

Meanwhile, Hang Seng Indexes Company launched Hang Seng Climate Change 1.5C Target Index with 209 constituents yesterday.

The index aims to achieve specific emission intensity improvement targets and is designed with reference to the minimum standards for the EU Paris-aligned Benchmarks.

This came as the Hong Kong Productivity Council launched its brand new Green Hall with innovative green tech empowering people to have greener choices in everyday life and to act in concert to help the city achieve carbon neutrality.