This Environmental Performance Report covers 1 January 2005 - 31 December 2005 unless otherwise stated. It seeks to provide an overview of our efforts to improve Hong Kong's environment and minimise the environmental impacts of our operations. This year, for the first time, we also report on our efforts in nature and energy conservation, a new area of responsibility for the EPD following our re-organisation on 1 April 2005 (see Chapter 3 for details).

We have incorporated other sustainability considerations where possible, making reference to standard sustainability practices such as the Global Reporting Initiative. This report is only published in CD-ROM format and on our web site to reduce paper consumption.