HSBC Sri Lanka was recently awarded the Corporate Sustainability Excellence Award under the "Environmental Footprint Management" category for obtaining ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System Certification, for the HSBC Premier Centre, down Flower road, at HSBC's 'Awards for Excellence', regional awards ceremony held in Hong Kong.
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| Picture shows the award winners (Nilantha Bastian is in the top row, right corner) with Peter Wong, CEO of HSBC Asia Pacific. |
HSBC's Premier Centre was declared a 'Green Office' in March 2009, having obtained the ISO 14001:2004, one of the world's most stringent environmental management Systems (EMS). This has made HSBC the first financial organisation in the country to be accredited with this standard, the global bank said
Representing the local office, Nilantha Bastian, Head of Marketing, Group Communications and Corporate Sustainability, HSBC Sri Lanka accepted the award presented by Peter Wong, CEO of HSBC Asia Pacific at the 'Awards for Excellence' held in Hong Kong recently.
The Asia Pacific regional awards was an event held to recognise and award countries who have implemented the best corporate sustainability projects within the region. The categories in which awards were presented included Employee Engagement, Environmental Footprint Management, Sustainable Business Development and Customer Engagement and Education. Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Taiwan were some of the participating countries.
As a follow up to this, the bank has also taken steps to obtain the ISO 14001:2004 Certification for its Maldives Branch and has also implemented some best practices within its local branches in Sri Lanka.
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