Johnson Controls announced three landmark partnerships with companies in Asia Pacific to help meet their environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals as well as net zero carbon commitments. Digitalization of building systems for Standard Chartered Bank, multiple sites across Asia Pacific: Johnson Controls collaborated with CBRE and Standard Chartered Bank to implement its OpenBlue Enterprise Management (OBEM) system - a cloud-based solution that identifies and resolves energy and operational inefficiencies - in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong office. The successful pilot saw 7% annual energy savings and won the International Facility Management Association Award of Excellence in 2020. To date, OBEM has been installed in more than 20 of the Bank's office sites and will eventually cover more than 90 buildings across Asia Pacific, including China, India, Malaysia, Republic of South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. This digitalization effort establishes a strong foundation for sustainability management for Standard Chartered Bank, which is committing to net-zero carbon emissions from its own operations by 2030. Retrofit with energy performance contracting for Rose Theater, Japan: Located at the foot of Mount Fuji, the Rose Theater adopted energy performance contracting for its retrofit to improve its energy and operational efficiency after over 25 years of operations. Johnson Controls offered an advanced energy saving estimation that allowed the customer to receive public subsidy. The proposal consisted of a 15-year energy performance contract which included Metasys, Air Handling Unit (AHU) inverter and its overhaul, a carbon dioxide monitoring system for inverter control and various efficient heating systems. Johnson Controls solutions resulted in a more comfortable indoor environment, and an efficient facility management for the various amenities on-site, including auditoriums as well as exhibition, meeting, tea-ceremony and practice rooms. With this retrofit, the Rose Theater will be able to reduce energy consumption by 39% and carbon dioxide emissions by 42%, while shaving 40% off energy costs. The entire retrofit was completed ahead of time so the Rose Theater could reopen earlier than planned. Heat pump application in Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, China: Beijing Municipal Administrative Center is now a low-carbon eco-city showcase for the efficient use of geothermal energy. Johnson Controls partnered with the Center to build an efficient, intelligent and reliable large-scale district heating and cooling system. In a single heating season of four months, the heat pump system could replace 12 million cubic meters of natural gas consumption, equivalent to savings of 15,000 tons of standard coal, 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide emission reduction, and 100,000 additional trees planted around the energy station. The solution comprises four ground-source heat pump systems with a total capacity of 39 megawatts installed in one of the energy stations, which provides efficient central heating and cooling for the administrative offices with total building area of about 960,000 square meters using geothermal energy. Heat pump technology is available but underutilized in Asia Pacific. Heat pumps can be applied in many industries where hot water is used abundantly such as in food production, semiconductor manufacturing and hotels. There is immense potential to reduce carbon emissions by replacing boilers and furnaces, which use fossil fuels, with heat pumps. Not only are heat pumps three to four times more energy-efficient than boilers and furnaces in general, but they also can render the heating process carbon-neutral when paired with renewable energy.