Annual Report 2019

57 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 FOCUS ON GREEN OPERATION The Group attaches great importance to environmental protection. During the whole life cycle of projects, the Group adheres to green ecological development philosophy and practice, steps up the efforts in operation management of green production through the innovation of the green development model and actively adopts new technology to control environmental pollution and reduce power consumption, striving to enhance the utilisation rate of resources and protect the natural ecology. Meanwhile, the Group strives to develop a green accountability chain and a green ecosystem with joint efforts of the community and builds sustainable green ports, with an aim to play its part in pushing forward ecocivilisation. In 2019, the Group has no incident of non-compliance with regulations related to energy conservation and environmental protection, and there was no incident of pollution or circumstance under which it failed to meet the standards regarding energy conservation and environmental protection. Climate challenges and responses Climate change has a close connection with the production and operation of the Group. As such, the Group identifies the impact of climate warming and formulates and carries out targeted counter-measures accordingly in a bid to sustain the green and low-carbon development of the Group. Impact of climate warming on production and operation Counter-measures Increase in costs of power consumption due to enhanced equipment load and power consumption in production and administration Reduce power consumption through transformation of energy conservation technology Intensified atmospheric dust pollution due to increase in frequency of severe weather such as typhoon and gust Build dust suppression and dust-proof facilities such as spray and wind screen Increase of sewage produced due to increase in precipitation Appropriately expand the scale of sewage collection and treatment facilities in the port area to enhance sewage treatment capability To cope with the impact of climate change on production and operation, the Group continually optimizes the environmental management system in strict compliance with laws and regulations related to environmental protection in the regions where its projects take place, formulates management regulations regarding energy conservation and environmental protection to further specify the tasks and mechanism concerning comprehensive supervision and management of energy conservation and environmental protection. In addition, the Group encourages and provides guidance and support for its subsidiaries to carry out works in relation to power system certification, hence improving the Group’s standards on energy conservation. Both Mega SCT and Chiwan Container Terminal have obtained ISO 14001 environmental management system certification and successfully passed the annual review of the system in 2019.