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Macau, March 28, 2021 / PR Newswire /-- Sands China Hotels and Resorts, including Macau Sands®, Venetian Macao®Bailey Palace of Macau with four Seasons Hotel®, Parisians in Macau, and Londoner ®Macau, which houses the Londoner Hotel, the Regis Macau, the Conrad Macau and the Sheraton Macau, joined companies and the public around the world on Saturday to turn off the hotel's exterior walls and non-essential indoor lighting for one hour to support and respond. "Earth hour2021”. This year is the 13th year in a row that Sands China has participated. "Earth hour. "To actively promote the sustainable development of the environment.
Sands China joined hands with companies around the world and the public to turn off lights for one hour to support Earth hour 2021 on March 27th to raise awareness of climate change.
Earth hour, which began in 2007, raises global awareness of climate change by encouraging environmentally conscious individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their lights for an hour.
In addition to responding to this annual event, Sands China also continues to turn off the lights of Earth hour every month. Its properties turn off the lighting of the hotel's exterior walls, signs and outdoor large screens for one hour on the first Tuesday of each month throughout the year.
Mak Suixian, Senior Vice President of Operations and Development of Sands China Resort, said: "Sands China has always adhered to the concept of environmental protection into its day-to-day business operations and is committed to contributing to global sustainable development. I am very pleased to continue to support Earth hour, and I am very grateful to the team members for their continued support to achieve sustainable development in our daily life. "
In 2020, the company implemented a number of projects through the "Sands Environmental Protection 360" global sustainable development strategy, including the installation of electronic rectifier motors to optimize cooling and heating systems in all its properties, saving the company 2 million kilowatt hours of electricity. The above and other "Sands Environmental Protection 360" initiatives continue to help the company maintain environmentally sustainable operations, and have won many awards. Among them, Londoners, Parisians Macau, Four Seasons Hotel Macao at Cotai Strip, Conrad Macau, Reggie Macau and Sheraton Macau all won gold awards in the Macau Green Hotel Award awarded by the government of the Macao Special Administrative region. The Venetian Macau also won the Platinum Award of the Macau Green Hotel Award.
In addition, Sands China was selected into the top 10 of the Hong Kong Enterprise Sustainability Index and the Greater Bay area Enterprise Sustainability Index in 2020. The Hong Kong Enterprise Sustainability Index and the Greater Bay area Enterprise Sustainability Index are released by the Business Sustainability Centre of the School of Business of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The aim is to show the development and performance of Hang Seng Index companies in terms of business sustainability, not only to help encourage companies to fulfil corporate social responsibility in their day-to-day business operations, but also to serve as reliable indicators for assessing investment risk. The Greater Bay area Enterprise Sustainability Index, as the first Greater Bay area enterprise sustainability index, encourages companies operating in the Greater Bay area to adopt more sustainable development strategies.
About Sands China Co., Ltd.
Sands China Limited (SEHK: 1928, "Sands China" or the "Company") is a limited company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Sands China is the largest integrated resort operator in Macau, with Macao Venetians on Cotai Avenue.®, Bailey Palace, Macau®, Macao Parisians, and Macau Londoners® And other property projects, while owning and operating Golden Sand Hotel in Macau Peninsula. The company's integrated resorts offer a wide range of entertainment, leisure, business facilities and passenger services, including large-scale convention and exhibition venues, various restaurants, shopping malls, world-class entertainment performances at the Jinguang Variety Hall, the Venetian Theatre, the Parisian Theatre, the Londoner Theatre and the Sands Theatre, as well as Jinguang high-speed ferry services to and from Hong Kong and Macau. The company's property development projects on Cotai Golden Avenue will firmly and continuously contribute to the construction of Macao as a world tourism and leisure center. Sands China is a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Group Co., Ltd., a global resort developer, and a subsidiary of: LVS) on the New York Stock Exchange.
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