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Jump-start Our Sustainability Journey

The Programme is taking a deep dive into critical sustainability issues with the aim of delivering high value insights and quantifiable impact. The assessment is expected to capture all value-creating activities along the journey through active engagement with various project stakeholder groups. The evaluation process is expected to facilitate greater accountability and smarter decision making in projects with sustainability impact.

Kickoff engagement

Facilitate dialogues and effective collaborations to understand key sustainability considerations and interests.

Measure what matters

Recognize and utilize right sets of data to get better results for high-value insights. Objective-oriented measurement.

Data-driven strategy

Detect critical trends influencing and shaping our sustainability efforts in the future. Establish pragmatic strategies to guide us on our sustainability journey for greater impact and efficiency.

Sharing and embedding

Leverage transparency to deeply integrate sustainability considerations into everything we do and deliver wider value to the community.

Publication:

Policy for Sustainability Lab, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong. (2023). Sustainability Impact Assessment: Framework and Report on HSBC Rural Sustainability.

The first part of the publication details a sustainability assessment framework and methodology that has been developed along the course of the Rural Sustainability Programme. This is followed by part two, which explains its application and reports the Programme’s sustainability attainment at different scales and levels to the environment, individuals, organisations and the wider society. The publication is available upon request by email (ruralsd@hku.hk).

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