新世界发展有限公司今日宣布，11间获旗下Impact Kommons计划支持的香港及国际初创企业，荣获星展银行颁发DBS Social Impact Prize，嘉许有关初创实践以可持续发展、融入本地文化为本的创科方案，并与新世界旗下各个业务部门推行试验计划，在废物管理、再造物料等範畴，推动更多元化的可持续发展。Impact Kommons将展开下一轮招募，藉此继续推动绿色创新，共建可持续未来。
星展银行透过亚洲地区的不同计划颁发DBS Social Impact Prize，藉此鼓励更多企业及初创公司发挥创新影响力。而Impact Kommons为亚洲首个以联合国可持续发展目标（UNSDG）为蓝本的初创企业加速计划，并由新世界集团旗下的开放式创新平台Eureka Nova及星展银行（香港）有限公司（「星展香港」）全力支持，支援科技企业及初创公司在新世界生态圈内发展，实践新世界2030 可持续发展愿景（2030 愿景）。
11间得奖初创业务多元化 涵盖气候科技及人工智能等
在Impact Kommons第三轮计划中，共11间初创获得DBS Social Impact Prize， 业务集中於废物管理、气候科技、医疗保健、人工智能及环保包装等範畴。而新世界发展最近成为亚洲第三家获科学基础减量目标倡议组织（Science Based Targets initiative, SBTi）批核其1.5°C科学基础减量短期目标，并承诺据SBTi净零排放标準（Net-Zero Stard）制定长期减排目标的房地产公司，标誌著集团持续回应企业气候行动紧急呼吁的决心。
新世界发展开发创新平台Eureka Nova助理总经理黄振南表示：「今日所获得的星展银行奖项，不仅肯定了这些创科企业本身的杰出成就，亦是对 Impact Kommons 计划的认同。新世界发展一直邀请并欢迎志同道合的夥伴与我们合作，凝聚大家的力量共同建构，产生协同效应，创造共享价值（creating shared value），从而促进世界迈向净零排放的未来。」
星展银行（香港）有限公司执行董事兼集团推广策略与传讯部总监胡秀汶表示：「作为一间具使命感的银行，星展秉承三大支柱 ── 负责任的银行、负责任的企业营运，以及创造社会影响力，构建可持续发展方针。星展设立DBS Social Impact Prize的初心，是支持注重应对亚洲地区社会及环境挑战的创新及初创企业。我们期待与具影响力的企业合作，令他们掌握自身力量，同时充分发挥潜能，为更可持续的未来带来持久改变，从而带来更巨大的协同效应。」
咖啡渣转化生物碳 协助土壤修复
是次获奖的11 间科创企业已获邀与新世界的租户及客户合作，其中两间分别为都市农圃企业心田工作室（Mindfield）及月事革命推动者LUÜNA Naturals（裸月）。心田工作室乃香港首批专注於咖啡渣升级再造业务的初创企业，并从新世界的租户收集咖啡渣，再转化成生物碳，用於土壤修复和平台花园的栽培介质，藉此改善土质。为期3个月的试验计划已於北角K11 ATELIER King's Road进行，并已扩展至旺角THE FEST项目。
LUÜNA Naturals则与K11 Art Mall合作，在洗手间设立售卖机以提供环保的有机棉女性卫生用品，LUÜNA Naturals亦会把售出的同等数量产品，捐赠给本港少数族裔弱势女性。第三轮Impact Kommons计划的其他初创亦正与新世界各业务部门试验合作， 如Breer与香港高尔夫球及网球学院合作，酿製一批以剩馀的意大利Panettone 麵包为原料的试验性啤酒；V Visionary提供重新设计和衣服升级改造培训予资源匮乏的妇女，让她们製作出优质及可持续的「香港製造」产品，冀透过新世界生态圈的零售渠道销售。
Impact Kommons将展开第四轮招募 过去3年支援30间初创
自 Impact Kommons 计划於2019 年成立以来，已与 30间企业及初创公司合作，并在新世界生态圈内外进行了 36项业务合作计划。Impact Kommons即将展开第四轮招募，参与计划的公司将与新世界各个业务部门和合作夥伴，就预先确定的商业案例紧密合作，计划为期四个月。
New Wld Development Company Limited announced today that 11 Hong Kong international start-ups suppted by its Impact Kommons programme have been awarded the DBS Social Impact Prize by DBS Bank, recognizing the innovation technology of the start-up practices based on sustainable development integration into local culture It has also implemented a pilot program with various business units under New Wld to promote me diversified sustainable development in areas such as waste management recycled materials. Impact Kommons will begin the next recruiting round to continue driving green innovation f a sustainable future.
DBS Bank presents the DBS Social Impact Prize through various programmes in the Asia region to encourage me companies start-ups to make an innovative impact. Impact Kommons is Asia's first start-up acceleration program based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). Hong Kong”) fully suppts the development of technology companies start-ups in the New Wld ecosystem, implements the New Wld 2030 Sustainable Development Vision (Vision 2030).
11 award-winning start-ups with diversified businesses covering climate technology artificial intelligence, etc.
In the third round of Impact Kommons, a total of 11 startups won the DBS Social Impact Prize, focusing on waste management, climate technology, healthcare, artificial intelligence environmentally friendly packaging. New Wld Development has recently become the third company in Asia to be approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) f its sht-term 1.5°C science-based reduction target, has pledged to comply with the SBTi net zero emission stard (Net- Zero Stard) is a real estate company that has set long-term emission reduction targets, marking the Group's determination to continue to respond to the urgent call f cpate climate action.
Huang Zhennan, Assistant General Manager of Eureka Nova, New Wld Development Innovation Platfm, said, "Today's DBS award not only affirms the outsting achievements of these innovation technology companies, but also recognizes the Impact Kommons program. New Wld Development has always invited We also welcome like-minded partners to cooperate with us, gather everyone's strength to build together, generate synergies, create shared value, thus promote the wld towards a net-zero emission future."
"As a bank with a sense of mission, DBS upholds three pillars - responsible bank, responsible enterprise Operation, creating social impact, building a sustainable development policy. DBS established the DBS Social Impact Prize to suppt innovation start-ups that focus on addressing social environmental challenges in Asia. We look fward to wking with influential companies. Empowering them to harness their power while reaching their full potential to bring about lasting change f a me sustainable future will lead to greater synergies.”
Coffee grounds convert biochar to assist in soil remediation
The 11 award-winning tech startups have been invited to collabate with New Wld's tenants clients, two of which are urban farmer Mindfield LUÜNA Naturals, the promoter of the monthly revolution. Heartl Studio is one of the first start-ups in Hong Kong to focus on the upcycling of coffee grounds. It collects coffee grounds from New Wld tenants converts them into biochar f soil remediation cultivation media f platfm gardens, thereby improving soil quality. The 3-month pilot scheme has been carried out at K11 ATELIER King's Road in Nth Point has been extended to THE FEST project in Mong Kok.
LUÜNA Naturals cooperated with K11 Art Mall to set up vending machines in the toilets to provide eco-friendly ganic cotton feminine hygiene products. LUÜNA Naturals will also donate the same amount of products sold to disadvantaged women from ethnic minities in Hong Kong. Other start-ups in the third round of the Impact Kommons program are also experimenting with various New Wld business units, such as Breer partnering with the Hong Kong Golf Tennis Academy to brew a batch of experimental beers based on leftover Italian Panettone bread; V Visionary provides redesign clothing upcycling training to under-resourced women to create high-quality sustainable "Made in Hong Kong" products f sale through New Wld Ecosystem's retail channels.
Impact Kommons will launch the fourth round of recruitment, suppting 30 startups in the past 3 years
Since its inception in 2019, the Impact Kommons program has partnered with 30 cpations start-ups, conducted 36 business partnership programs within outside the New Wld ecosystem. Impact Kommons is about to begin its fourth round of recruitment, participating companies will wk closely with New Wld's various business units partners on pre-determined business cases f a four-month program.
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