• Background 

  The "Hong Kong Green Awards 2010" (HKGA 2010) is organized by Green Council with an aim to encourage corporations in Hong Kong to include environmental considerations in their operational and management processes, and present themselves as corporations that having high environment consciousness and social caring. The HKGA 2010 is a golden opportunity to demonstrate your corporate social responsibilities contributing to the greening of our city throughout the years. The HKGA 2010 comprises the "Green Purchaswi$e Award" (GPA) and "Green Office Management Award" (GOMA). The GPA recognizes and praises local corporations with their outstanding performance on green purchasing while the GOMA offers recognition on their achievement on implementing environmental management in offices.

  
  
• Judging Criteria 
  

  Upon receiving your Enrolment Form & Assessment Form, evaluation will be conducted according to the following judging criteria: Green Purchaswi$e Award Corporate Commitment to the Establishment of Internal Green Purchasing Components. Overall Green Purchasing Performance and Effectiveness. Strategy and Tactics in Achieving Green Purchasing Objectives. Promotion on Green Purchasing. Green Office Management Award Corporate Commitment and Leadership to the Establishment of Green Office Management. Environmental Achievement on Energy Conservation, Water Conservation, Waste Management, Indoor Air Quality, Carbon Emission and Green Purchasing. Environmental Training and Promotion.

• Judge Panel 
  

  Name Organization Title 1 Ir. LAM Cheuk-fung Hong Kong Institution of Engineer (Environmental Division) Chairman 2 Ms HO Wai-ping, Linda Green Council Chief Executive Officer 3 Mr. Luther WONG Federation of Hong Kong Industries Vice Chairman of Group 26 (Environmental Industries) 4 Mr. KWOK Chun Wah, MH, JP The Chinese Manufacturer's Association of Hong Kong General Committee Member The Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong 5 Dr. Stephen NG The Institute of Purchasing & Supply of Hong Kong President 6 Ms Carrie LAU Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, Hong Kong Chairman 7 Mr. Joe NG Hong Kong Green Label Scheme Advisory Committee Chairman 8 Mr. Louis CHAN Hong Kong Waste Management Association Chairman 9 Ms Maggie SIN Hong Kong Procurement Professional Association Chairlady 10 Mr. WONG Kin-ming Institute for Supply Management – Pearl River Delta Vice President, Secretariat 11 Mr. LEE Tak-kong, Alfred The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Committee Member & Chairman of the Environmental Concern Sub-committee

  
  
• Benefits and Rewards of Election
  

  Enrolment Benefits and Rewards To demonstrate award recipients' support and contribution to environmental protection, so to enhance their social images. To be invited to attend the "Hong Kong Green Awards 2010 Presentation Ceremony cum Green Council 10th Anniversary Celebration Function". To be rewarded with wide media coverage as an industry model that has committed to greening of their office operation and as pioneer in green purchasing.

• Award Schedule
  

  Item Date Enrolment Form and Assessment Form Submission Deadline 30th September 2010 First Screening & Scoring Early - Mid October 2010 Final Presentation to Panel Judge Mid - End October 2010 Announcing Final Results Early November 2010 "Hong Kong Green Awards 2010 Presentation Ceremony cum Green Council 10th Anniversary Celebration Function" 10th or 15th December 2010

  
  
• Important Notes 
  

  Confirmation e-mail will be sent to each applicant upon receiving successful submission. For enquiry, please contact Green Council at +852-2810-1122, or email to enquiries@greencouncil.org. Applicants who have successfully passed the first screening process must attend the final presentation section to present their ‘Green Purchasing' works and/or ‘Green Office' achievements to the Panel Judges.

• Others 

All information and documents submitted by the applicants, as well as judgment/comments given by Panel Judges will only be used in evaluating the qualifications of the applicants for the "Hong Kong Green Awards 2010". Under certain circumstances a conflict of interest occurs between a Panel Judge and an applicant, that Panel Judge would not be involved in making judgment/comments on that particular applicant. Neither can he/she access the information offered by that applicant with any means. All information and documents submitted by the applicants are strictly confidential. The Event Secretariat reserves the right to disqualify applicants upon incomplete or insufficient information submitted.

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• Contact Details 
  

  Green Council Contact Details Address Room 710, New World Tower I, 18 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong Tel +852-2810-1122 Fax +852-2810-1998 Email enquiries@greencouncil.org

  
  
• Download the Form
  

• HKGPC Launching Ceremony
• "Green Market Day"
• "Green Purchasing for Green Life" Road Show

• "Report of The Research Study on The Current Status and Direction for Green Purchasing in Hong Kong" (Environment and Conversation Fund's Research Project)
• Market survey on print paper products complying with the HKGLS product standard (GL-005-008)
  In support of the HKSAR Government's recent initiative on promoting green products, the HKGPC Task Force Members have decided to purchasing more green products starting from printing paper and Hong Kong Green Label will become a compulsory procurement criteria on printing paper.
  
  In this year June, Green Council Officials has processed a public consultation on the HKGLS product criteria GL-005-008. After consolidating comments of some paper suppliers, the product criteria GL-005-008 has been finalized and endorsed by HKGLS Advisory Committee. We believe the product criteria are not only compatible to other ecolabelling programme, but also feasible and become popular in Hong Kong in the near future.
  
  On behalf of HKGPC Task Force members, we are writing to invite your company to share how many paper brands and paper products (specifically A4-sized, A3-sized, paper for Letterhead and Business Card) meet the GL-005-008 requirements. Please kindly complete the questionnaire and return to Green Council by email, facsimile or by post

• Survey on the Current Status and Direction for Green Purchasing in Hong Kong (completed)
  
• Green Purchasing Survey (2006)
  From August to October 2006, an attitude survey on green purchasing was done by the Green Council and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Based on a total of 654 completed questionnaires, about 80% of the respondents were willing to pay more for green products, and suggested that a comprehensive database of green products is crucial for practicing and promoting green purchasing.
  
• Green Purchasing Self-evaluation Checklist
  
• Eco-products/eco-services criteria and checklist
  
• Benchmarking

• Green Purchasing Best Practices Guidebook
  
• Results on on the Green Purchasing Survey 2006
  

• Hong Kong Green Council runs first experience sharing seminar
  Disneyland and Shui On apply green purchasing to operations and corporate culture
  (14 December 2007)
  
• Green Council launches Hong Kong Green Purchasing Charter (HKGPC)
  (4 October 2007)