Annual Report 2024

84 China Merchants China Direct Investments Limited Annual Report 2024 ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE REPORT (CONTINUED) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION The Company has always cared a great amount for the environment. The main objective to our environmental management approach is to comply with all the relevant environmental laws in the market regions that the Company operates in, which includes the implementation of a sound monitoring system to manage environmental risks, accurately reporting the Company’s environmental impacts and performance in our ESG report, and most importantly, establishing achievable environmental targets and making efforts to reach these goals. During the Reporting Period, there were no cases of non-compliance noted in relation to relevant environmental laws and regulations, including the air and greenhouse gas emissions, discharges into water and land, and generation of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, including but not limited to the Laws of Hong Kong: Air Pollution Control Ordinance (Cap. 311) and the Noise Control Ordinance (Cap. 400). Green Office and Operation Waste Management The Company’s main emission sources are electricity and paper consumption. Even though the impact of our direct consumptions to the environment is minor, we have adopted a series of measures to closely monitor and ensure that the environmental targets can be met. Below are some of the few key measures that the Company follows: ‧ establishing functional telecommunication systems to allow effective communication between staff; ‧ encouraging staff to reduce the number of business-related travels and/or unnecessary travels; ‧ motivating staff to use electronic documents if possible; and ‧ promoting the behaviour of paper recycling and the use of recycled paper when possible. We have exerted reasonable effort to maintain emission at a low level with the help from the Investment Manager of adopting a green office culture. The Investment Manager also ensures that its operations comply with Hong Kong government’s environmental laws and regulations completely.