Carbon management : adapting corporate carbon management concepts, strategies & practices in agency and developers' property management companies in Hong Kong

Abstract

Climate Change is affecting human’s lives in recent centuries. Daily human activities generated large amount of greenhouse gases and people tend to calculate their greenhouse gases emissions in terms of carbon footprint. In response to the important business topic in the world stage - Sustainability and Carbon Neutral, this paper is aimed to explore the possible development of adapting corporate carbon management strategies, concepts and practices in developers’ and agency property management companies in Hong Kong. By conducting 10 semi-structured in-depth interviews with existing practitioners, trade representatives who had 5-35 years experiences in Hong Kong property management industry and the head consultant of a professional carbon management consultancy firm, this study investigated the latest circumstances (as at 2021 in Hong Kong), push factors, opportunities and challenges and the support required for implementing proactive carbon management strategies in developers’ and agency property management companies in Hong Kong. At the end of this paper, it would be concluding the most updated property management practitioners’ attitudes, views and concerns on conducting proactive corporate carbon management strategies in their daily working environment and see whether staff from developers’ companies are having different concerns comparing with the staff from agency property management companies. With reference to literature reviews and comments from the interviewees, possible recommendations would also be proposed correspondingly.