Climate Change

GRI 305
HKEX Aspect A1, A2, A3, A4, KPI A1.5, A3.1, A4.1
Swire Properties recognises that climate change poses significant risks and presents significant opportunities to our business. We are committed to reducing climate impacts and optimising resource efficiency throughout our operations.
We are responding to the Climate Change focus area through initiatives on mitigation, adaptation and resilience.
The relevant SDG is:
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SDG 13
Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Our Climate Change Policy outlines our commitment to managing climate risks across our operations and to developing mitigation, adaptation and resilience strategies that address those risks in line with global best practices.

Continuously Progressing Towards our Science-based Targets

Swire Properties recognises that climate change poses significant risks and presents significant opportunities to our business. We are committed to reducing climate impacts and optimising resource efficiency in all our operations. Throughout the year, we continued to adopt innovative low-carbon technologies and management practices and invest in energy efficiency research and development, and made steady progress towards meeting our science-based targets.
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Continuously Progressing Towards our Science-based Targets

Increasing our Climate Resilience in New Projects

Swire Properties has significant investment plans for new projects in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong. It of the utmost importance to expand our climate risk assessment work to cover new project sites, for example in Xi'an and Sanya. These assessments will allow us to critically evaluate the potential climate exposure of these developments and take early strategic action to incorporate climate resilience into the projects’ design and planning stages.
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Increasing our Climate Resilience in New Projects

2023 Climate Risk Assessment and Transition Risks Updates

Our comprehensive climate risk assessment process identifies the key risks posed by climate change to our business operations, and the business opportunities that may arise from new climatic conditions. The most recent assessment identified that, overall, there are low to moderate levels of risk for flooding, heat stress, water stress, and extreme wind for our global portfolio in all assessed climate scenarios. These risk levels are attributed to the relatively robust adaptive capacity and mitigation measures we have integrated into our buildings.
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2023 Climate Risk Assessment and Transition Risks Updates