The Hong Kong University Jockey Club Sustainability Index (HKU JC Sustainability Index) is a set of indices developed by HKU researchers. Designed for researchers and interested stakeholders, it provides publicly accessible metrics to assess sustainability issues.

Sustainability landscape is constantly evolving, with new issues emerging and best practices being developed, sustainability indices play important roles by not just reflecting the overarching trends but also serving as critical benchmarks, and recognizing companies that emphasize sustainability and social responsibility.

Despite the increasing popularity of sustainability indices, there are challenges and issues such as data quality and availability, the lack of consistency of evaluation criteria and rating methodology for companies, greenwashing, etc. Against the backdrop of such challenges, it is important for academia to unleash its research and innovation potential to address these issues and to create novel, useful, and impactful sustainability measures.