Introduction Our business SwireTHRIVE About our report Other ESG disclosures Appendices OvOveerrvivieeww ChChaaiirrmmanan’’ss s statattememenentt FFrroomm o ourur De Deptpt.. H Headeadss INTRODUCTION From our Department Heads This year, we met challenges, and made Midway through 2022, I took over the achievements and important movements leadership of our sustainable development towards our SwireTHRIVE commitments. strategy and performance as Group Head We continued to make progress on several of Sustainability. Despite the challenging of our goals, with an overall reduction in operating environment, I am proud of scope 1 and scope 2 emissions, as well the work done by my colleagues across as similar progress against our water the Group and continue to be energised and waste targets. We completed a full by Swire’s ongoing commitment to inventory of our scope 3 emissions and sustainability. The agreement to trial the assessed the physical climate risks to our implementation of internal carbon pricing assets. As a result of these e昀昀orts, we in 2023 is testament to the opportunity saw improvements in a number of ESG our senior management see to further ratings including CDP and the Hang Seng embed sustainability into the core Corporate Sustainability Index. functions of our businesses. Mark Harper During 2023, we will build on our 2030 As signi昀椀cant as COVID-19 has been, Group Head of Sustainability decarbonisation plans by developing a climate change presents another level carbon transition action plan to achieve of environmental, social, and economic net zero by 2050. We will continue to challenges. All must embrace ambition, innovate and invest in technologies ingenuity, and collaboration to drive and solutions to meet our ambitious progress towards achieving global goals. commitments, and transparently report It will not be easy, but I remain optimistic on our progress. that collectively we can deliver on our commitments for the future. As we come out of COVID-19, our We also recognise that as our business business and workforce look signi昀椀cantly evolves so must our approach to D&I. di昀昀erent to when we started our o昀케cial That’s why to further drive towards D&I journey in 2019. We also have new gender equality, we set an additional leadership with my appointment as the target to achieve 30% of women on our Group Head of Diversity and Inclusion. Yet board by 2024. our commitment to creating a diverse, This year, we look forward to continuing equitable and inclusive workplace remains advocating not just for women but for unwavering. everyone as we build an inclusive and Data continues to underpin our approach supportive working environment for all. to measuring success. We conducted our second group-wide D&I survey in Hong Kong and found our inclusion score increased by 7%. We also participated in Ajay Manissery Konchery external indices for gender, ethnic and Group Head of Diversity and Inclusion disability inclusion to benchmark our progress, and featured in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index for the second consecutive time. SSSWIWIWIRRREEE P P PAAACCCIIIFFFICICIC ——— SSSUUUSSSTTTAAAIIINNNAAABLEBLEBLE D D DEEEVVVEEELLLOOOPPPMMMEEENTNTNT R R REEEPPPOOORTRTRT 222000222222 ——— 4 4 4
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