| World Green Organisation 1st Anniversary Celebration |
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The 1st Anniversary Celebration of WGO was successfully held on 9th December, 2013 at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center where many political elites and business celebrities attended. Officiating guests LAM Woon-kwong, GBS, JP, Jasper TSANG Yok-sing, GBS, JP, and advisor Bernard Chan, GBS, JP kicked off the event by passing on relay batons to symbolise the mission of environmental conservation and educating the next generation is a relay and we shall continue our efforts to achieve protection of our environment.
After reviewing the work of WGO for the past year captured on video, which covered the areas of social and environmental, our Chairman of the Board of Governors, Michael LAI, BBS, JP, delivered the welcoming speech. He highlighted that WGO had used innovative, diverse and practical actions to promote environmental protection and assisted the underprivileged at the same time. These actions have attracted wide media coverage from both local and international media.
Please visit the following link for more photos http://thewgo.org/website/eng/1st-anniversary/ |
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| United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG) – Green Office Awards Labelling Scheme (GOALS): Open for applications |
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The Green Office Awards Labelling Scheme (GOALS), which was initiated by World Green Organisation and supported by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) North District, has attracted over 100 companies and offices to join its first launch in 2013. Many international and listed companies were awardees of this scheme and an award ceremony was held by the end of 2013. Over 180 guests and senior management from participating companies attended. The Assistant Director of the Environmental Protection Department, Elvis Au, JP, was invited to present the awards. Please click here for more pictures.
Staff of participating companies will receive trainings on how to go green. UNMDG's Better World Company label and WGO's Green Office label will also be awarded to participants who had fulfilled at least 25 criteria and had passed the nomination and verification process. These criteria include energy saving, waste reduction and green procurement. Not only does GOALS help to promote green culture, but it can also help to reduce a company's operation costs in the long run. The 2014 GOALS program is now open for application. Please click here for details. |
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| Green Partners Programme (GPP) – Celebrating the First Year of Success |
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Towards the end of 2013, World Green Organisation held an award ceremony to appreciate our most valued corporations who had joined our Green Partners Programme. Our honourable guests presented trophies to each GPP member to recognize their efforts of promoting corporate social responsibility. We hope more corporations will join GPP and together we can build a green future.
As part of the programme, WGO organised a green facility's sharing tour for our GPP members in late November. A total of 15 staff from 5 companies visited two offices which had well-established green features and they exchanged valuable learnings in the go-green process. We will continue to organise similar visits, workshops and seminars so that more corporations will be informed of the latest news on environmental protection. |
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| Social Innovation Inventor – Competition for Innovative Design |
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Sponsored by MTR and various corporations, the "Social Innovation Inventor – Competition for Innovative Design", organised by World Green Organisation in response to the increasing number of energy poor households, has received an overwhelming response since launched. Almost 100 teams have applied and hopefully that through their creativity, they can help improve the living environment of the underprivileged residing in sub-divided units. The competition is divided into secondary student group and tertiary student group. Their designs have to consider factors such as production cost and usage of environmental friendly materials.
After the preliminary round of judging in February, finalist teams (10 from each group) will be short-listed and will attend free workshops to help enhance and improve their designs before submitting their final work for judging in June. The prize for the champion team is a study tour to Cambridge University. For details please visit http://thewgo.org/inventor (Chinese only). |
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