{"id":220956,"date":"2024-10-07T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/media\/striving-ahead-on-sustainability-stewardship-hku-business-school-published-its-first-sustainability-report\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:45:19","slug":"striving-ahead-on-sustainability-stewardship-hku-business-school-published-its-first-sustainability-report","status":"publish","type":"hkubs-media","link":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/media\/school-news\/striving-ahead-on-sustainability-stewardship-hku-business-school-published-its-first-sustainability-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Striving Ahead on Sustainability Stewardship: HKU Business School published its First Sustainability Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global challenges have become increasingly acute. We have accomplished much, but more to be done. The year of 2024 marks a milestone in HKU Business School\u2019s sustainability journey, as we proudly launch our first-ever Sustainability Report, which makes us the first business school in Hong Kong to publish a standalone sustainability report. We hope to share the progress we\u2019ve made and envision goals we aim to achieve together in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Report communicates the School\u2019s ongoing efforts and achievements in sustainability from July 2023 to June 2024, which have been demonstrated from the perspectives of Education, Alumni, Research, Knowledge Exchange &amp; Partnership, and Sustainable Campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe School recognises the importance of balancing short-term benefits and long-term sustainability efforts, and we are striving to contribute to a lasting impact on sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Professor Hongbin Cai, Dean and Chair of Economics of HKU Business School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a Glance of the Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30+ ESG-related teaching courses across our UG, TPG and executive programmes<\/li>\n<li>Launched the brand-new programme named Master of Climate Governance and Risk Management<\/li>\n<li>Our Alumni Association has grown to 3,000 members, across Asia-Pacific, North America, the Middle East, and beyond<\/li>\n<li>Nurtured alumni start-up stars to develop creative solutions addressing environmental and social issues<\/li>\n<li>50+ ESG-related international top journal publications in the past 3 years<\/li>\n<li>Asia No. 1 on UTD Top Business School Research Rankings based on publications in the past five years<\/li>\n<li>Established the HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute in June 2024<\/li>\n<li>Throughout the year, our students from the Impact Lab have dedicated over 149,000 hours of work to support more than 50 social impact organisations<\/li>\n<li>58.4% female students and 28.7% female faculty members<\/li>\n<li>During the reporting period, HKU Business School carbon emissions totalled 3,806 tonnes CO2e for scope 1 and 2, and started to assess scope 3 emissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We invite you to read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/hkubs_2023-24_sustainability_report.pdf\">Full Report<\/a> for more details and welcome your comments, feedback, and all your enthusiasm for sustainability!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220956","hkubs-media","type-hkubs-media","status-publish","hentry","media-categories-school-news-tc","media-topic-categories-announcement-tc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/220956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hkubs-media"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/220956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221051,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hkubs-media\/220956\/revisions\/221051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}