Vision
Our vision is of a Hong Kong which enjoys an environment that is both healthy and pleasant, in which the community places a premium on sustaining such an environment for both themselves and future generations.

To realise this vision, we will continue to strengthen our ability to meet environmental sustainability goals. We will formulate and implement programmes to improve and safeguard the environment while contributing proactively to strategic decision-making in the government that will have an impact on the environment. We are committed to ensuring that all services and programmes offered by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD), as well as our own internal operations, are developed and conducted in an environmentally responsible manner.

In pursuance of these goals, the EPD has adopted the following principles:

Compliance
We aim to establish an effective legislative and an efficient control framework to safeguard the health and welfare of the community from any adverse environmental effects.

We will seek to provide moral leadership by not only complying with the letter of the law, but the spirit of all applicable environmental legislation, standards and regulations, as well as our internal guidelines and procedures, in all our operations within the EPD. We will endeavour to surpass them whenever possible.

Pollution Prevention
We aim to pre-empt environmental problems associated with development projects, plans and policies by applying environmental impact assessment in the planning process and seeking opportunities to improve the environmental quality of Hong Kong.

We will implement ISO14001 environmental management systems to improve continually the environmental performance of our major facilities. We will avoid, reduce and control environmental pollution arising from our day-to-day working practices. We will require our contractors to adopt and implement sound environmental management systems and pollution control measures, and actively encourage businesses and other organisations in Hong Kong to adopt similar systems and measures.