SUSTAINABILITY

Navigating Covid-19: An Eco-jewellery Designer

22 February 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for global businesses, making them rethink their supply chain strategy. There has also been a rapid increase in interest in sustainability among consumers. HKTDC talked to Jeanine Hsu, a Hong Kong-based jewellery designer, to understand how ethical and sustainable jewellery-making is increasingly becoming a new must-have in every jeweller’s post-pandemic business plan. More

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Share economy goes designer

03 April 2020

High-end fashion has fielded criticism from social and green commentators, who say it is exclusively for the super-rich, and that these buyers often wear items a handful of times before discarding them in a landfill. More

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The Greater Bay Area: Smart Waste Handling for Smarter Cities

25 March 2020

Sweden’s Envac develops, installs and manages automatic waste collection systems using its specialised vacuum systems to provide solutions for residential and commercial projects in sectors ranging from housing and catering to hospitals and airports. The company believes that the Greater Bay Area provides many opportunities to find new customers and new markets for its environmentally sustainable systems. More

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EU increases focus on battery technology as it deliberates import ban on dirty batteries

31 December 2019

In the month of December 2019, the European Commission Vice President for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight, Maroš Šefčovič, indicated that batteries falling short of certain environmental standards may be banned from the EU as part of the EU’s new Green Deal in the future. On the same day the European Commission also announced that it had approved a cross-border state aid scheme by seven Member States to support research and innovation throughout the battery value chain. More

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Dutch Government Advocates EU Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct

30 December 2019

Late last month, the Dutch minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag, called on the new European Commission to take the initiative to develop an EU Action Plan on responsible business conduct. At the request of the Dutch Government, Minister Kaag presented her initiatives at a meeting of trade ministers from all EU Member States in Brussels. More

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Greener Pastures in Hong Kong

13 April 2018

Singapore social enterprise Green is the New Black Asia, in partnership with Hong Kong-based Ocean Recovery Alliance, will present the Conscious Festival over the Earth Day weekend (20-22 April) at PMQ in Central. More

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Sustainable Hong Kong

08 May 2017

Hong Kong’s second “Zero Waste Week” held last November – when people were challenged to send nothing to the landfill for seven days and a growing awareness around sustainability – show organisations are taking steps to become more planet-conscious. More

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Sustainable Centre

08 September 2016

Of the ASEAN conglomerates capable of participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, few have as far-reaching interests as CP Group of Thailand. More

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Sustainable Sourcing

16 August 2016

Global packaging material firm Avery Dennison Corporation manufactures and distributes adhesive materials, apparel branding labels and tags, RFID inlays and specialty medical products. More

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Sustainable Sourcing

07 July 2015

For decades during China’s economic transformation, trading companies based themselves in Hong Kong to source the most cost-effective China-made goods for dispatch through the city’s duty-free ports. More

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