2023 Event Partners

The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham HK) is one of the largest international chambers in Hong Kong and one of the most dynamic and influential international business organizations in the Asia-Pacific region.

AmCham endeavors to help members navigate the complex local and global sustainability trends, identify responsible business opportunities and promote corporate citizenship among the Hong Kong business community.

BESGO, a program backed by CUHK Business School, aims to educate and inspire the next generation of change-makers on how social good, social innovation, and sustainable practices can shape businesses and society’s future. With activities like training workshops, talks, and real-world projects, BESGO helps deepen students’ understanding of social needs and sustainability issues. By connecting educators, business professionals, social innovators, and future change-makers, BESGO fosters collaboration and creates shared value towards building a better future for all.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

1. Increase the awareness and understanding of social and environmental issues among students and participants by providing educational resources, workshops, and field visits.
2. Foster partnerships and collaborations with local and international organizations that align with BESGO’s mission and values, and promote sustainability and social good.
3. Engage and empower students to take action and create positive social and environmental impacts through BESGO’s programs and activities, and provide opportunities for them to apply their knowledge and skills in real-world projects.

Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:

BESGO has organized various activities to promote social innovation, social good, and sustainable practices. In the past, we have designed and produced teaching and learning materials, conducted seminars and workshops, and facilitated visits to community and social enterprises. We also published feature articles and teaching cases, and presented at local and international conferences. These initiatives aim to raise awareness, deepen understanding, and provide opportunities for students to create real impact and foster collaboration for a better future.

GIFT is an independent pan-Asian think tank dedicated to advancing a deeper understanding of today’s most critical drivers of change – from the emergence of a post-Western world to the reshaping of global capitalism and the dynamic relationship between business, society, and the state. Our practical insights, internationally acclaimed leadership learning curriculum, and outcome-driven facilitation help our clients navigate the seismic shifts shaping our future, particularly in key areas of sustainable development, social and environmental impact, sustainability, and policymaking.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

Committed to solving growing existential threats and societal challenges, we aim to:

Move ESG beyond reporting, and reframe narratives to enable real and sustained transformation in ESG by working with clients to distil ESG in every aspect of business, from products and services to employees and the supply chain.

Support companies in rethinking their core business models to embrace the true ethos of “sustainability”, elevating sustainability conversations beyond environmental management & short-term business goals and towards long-term societal sustainability.

Scale up the accessibility of sustainability education and facilitate disruptive learning that empowers individuals and organisations with insights to redesign society through our new EdTech platform, GIFT.ed.

Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:

GIFT’s annual Hong Kong Young Leaders Programme (HKYLP) is a public consultation platform that convenes young professionals from the Business, Government and Civil society sectors to address Hong Kong’s pertinent complex societal challenges. Through the programme, participants meet with stakeholders and experts to gain cross-sector insights to develop innovative policy solutions for the betterment of Hong Kong. Since its inaugural programme in 2015, we have developed many policy recommendations and best practices for sustainable development, such as our 2022 programme on the Northern Metropolis Development Strategy, where participants were able to develop policy recommendations to enable the Northern Metropolis to become a liveable and resilient city while meeting Hong Kong’s long term policy objectives such as its 2050 decarbonisation goals.

For our upcoming 2023 HKYLP programme, we will be examining how promoting well-being may be key to reversing brain drain in Hong Kong. Driven by events in recent years, Hong Kong people have become increasingly dissatisfied by their inability to find fulfilment, security and empowerment in Hong Kong, all of which are key indicators for well-being. As such, key groups, particularly youth, have decided to relocate to competitor cities in search of better career prospects and outlooks for their children’s future – leading to the aforementioned brain drain. The HKYLP engages participants to define well-being in Hong Kong’s context and develop a Well-being Strategy that engages actors across public, private, and civil society sectors to create a conducive environment for youth to thrive in Hong Kong. Importantly, the cohort will be invited to engage with the concept of ‘well-being’ beyond ‘mental health’. Instead, the cohort will analyse well-being on a ‘what matters most’ approach, primarily understood as the notion of one’s life satisfaction, happiness, and the ability for one to ‘function well’.

The Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) strives to promote the standard and development of sustainable buildings in Hong Kong by engaging the government, the industry and the public. The HKGBC also aims to develop practical solutions for Hong Kong’s unique, subtropical built environment of high-rise, high density urban area, leading Hong Kong to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and to become a world’s exemplar of green building development.

Hong Kong 2050 is Now is a Hong Kong-based platform for education, collaboration, and action on the climate crisis. We seek to inspire ambitious target setting, induce behavior change, and mobilise collective action towards a carbon-neutral Hong Kong.

Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:

1. Educate and engage the public on the risks and opportunities facing Hong Kong in an age of climate crisis, based on rigorous scientific and policy research.
2. Encourage personal, corporate and government action to be undertaken now in combating the climate crisis, including personal lifestyle, business best practice, and regulatory change.
3. Aggregate the efforts of stakeholders working towards the vision of a Net-Zero carbon Hong Kong, leveraging existing grassroot and community movements to further catalyse their impact.

IFMA Hong Kong Chapter, established in 1992 was the first Chapter formed in Asia. The Chapter supports over 600 IFMA members in Hong Kong by offering diverse educational and networking events, international accrediting programs, and empowering its members to learn, connect and advance.

PRHK is a modern and forward-looking industry organisation for PR and communications professionals in Hong Kong. It represents, champions, promotes and grows the Hong Kong public relations and communications industry, its professionals, its affiliates, its academic institutions and their students.

Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong (SVIHK) is a non-profit organisation driving the purpose-led business movement in Hong Kong and China. We are funded by leading companies to accelerate shared value creation by establishing long-lasting and profitable business models while addressing unmet societal needs. Our dedicated programmes and vivid ecosystem bring unlikely partnerships that simultaneously create economic and social value.

Founded in 2007, Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk) is an Impact Purpose Organisation that innovates social change by re-imagining the city. We focus on inventing and incubating pioneering sustainable business solutions to urban social and environmental challenges, and partners with communities and businesses alike to design and build cross-sector partnerships towards realising our dreams for New Urban 2030 in Hong Kong.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

• Design New Urban prototypes through building impact ventures, cultivating movement of good, and orchestrating impact capital
• Redefine talent engagement and investment in the future of work to promote inclusive economic and social growth
• Activate purpose-driven cross-sector partnerships and collective action platform

Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:

SVhk is dedicated to innovating social change through impact capital, impact strategy, impact community and impact storytelling. Key initiatives in 2023 includes:

• Business with Purpose: an Impact Partnership between The Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA) and SVhk to support corporate and social leaders in redefining sustainability, while reinforcing a shared mission to embed PURPOSE in action for a better collective future for HKMA’s members and the wider business community
• Community Making: a software-centric approach and series of activities to innovate social change in urban neighbourhoods under transformation
• Jobcation: a talent investment platform that bridges businesses and mothers with young children to venture back to the world of work after a career break of 5+ years

The Chamber is one of Hong Kong’s biggest and most active independent international business organisations representing a broad span of British, Hong Kong and international companies doing business in, with, or through Hong Kong.

The Chamber encourages diversity in its membership and activities and has a 1,000 members from the biggest multinationals through to a broad range of medium and smaller companies and start-ups. The Chamber’s aim is to help our members grow their business, and promote and represent their business interests by providing representation and advocacy; networking and brand exposure; as well as information and insight.

2041 Hong Kong is a youth-led organisation that strives to build a community seeking to inspire, advocate, and catalyse change for sustainability and climate action. We aspire to promote and uphold the #AntarcticSpirit by building a more resilient and sustainable Hong Kong.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

• Increase youth uptake and education in sustainability
• Collaborate with education and business institutions
• Promote the #AntarcticSpirit

Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong

We are edging towards a sustainable future for Hong Kong through the power of youths in our community. Our efforts are coordinated by our three branches: Consulting, Communications, and Community.

The Consulting Branch helps corporations and institutions address ESG and sustainability opportunities, and engage with critical stakeholders. The Communications Branch looks to share 2041 Hong Kong’s story with the rest of the world, with the aim to inspire more global climate action. And finally, our Community Branch partners with schools and institutions to organise events and solutions-based projects advocating for programs of environmental education to promote youth uptake in sustainability.

MAKE is a service design and strategic design consultancy that helps companies elevate and differentiate the customer experience of products, services, and brands. Since 2015, our ‘Design for Impact’ program has connected social enterprises and NGOs with community networks and corporate organisations for social innovation and change. MAKE’s approach combines Systems Thinking with Human-centred Design and Behavioural Design to help our partners surface untapped opportunities, empower teams and stakeholders to co-create meaningful social impact, amplify brand value and improve awareness. More recently, we’ve also partnered with organisations to challenge the status quo and reinvent deeper to promote diversity, equity and inclusion for their employees and customers.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) is a global, multi-stakeholder alliance to empower textile and clothing organizations to understand how to improve the impact of their products. Of its 280+ members, about 45% represent brands and retailers of all sizes, about 30% represent manufacturers, and about 25% represent affiliate organizations including fellow non-profits, academic institutions, and trade/industry associations.

The DO combines a lifelong learning institution and an advisory firm. With offices in Hong Kong, Berlin and New York we help organisations to empower their employees and activate the firm to change with speed. We are a platform that builds empowerment programs and ecosystems around the big challenges of our time. To be the DO is to drive positive change – change that’s good for business and society.

In 2020, Club Wheelock and The DO joined hands to provide Hong Kong with an inspiring and unique experience – a community and innovation hub – WLAB. WLAB brings together the brains, methodology and diverse tools for innovation and co-creation of Club Wheelock and The DO. WLAB’s mission is to co-create a happier and healthier Hong Kong.

EuroCham is a non-governmental business interest group. The EuroCham is a ‘Chamber of Chambers’ with its membership comprising of 14 European Chambers based in Hong Kong and 1 in Macau.

Our key objectives are to:

• Provide a European forum to exchange information, discuss common challenges businesses are facing, and publish position papers to put forward our recommendations
• Promote commercial, industrial, financial, scientific, and other economic exchange between Europe, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Greater Bay Area
• Host functions that allow members to network with stakeholders from Europe, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Greater Bay Area, including hosting of officials from the European Union (EU)

EuroCham regognises the key relevance of sustainable development and facilitates the dialogue by organising green events and forums (see EU: The Green Way) and through its Business Councils (European Council for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Fonance Working Group).

The Green Council is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt charitable (Ref. No.: 91/6063) environmental stewardship organisation and certification body (Reg. No.: HKCAS-027) of Hong Kong established in 2000 and accredited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A group of individuals from different sectors of industry and academics shared the vision to help build Hong Kong into a world-class green city for the future. They formed the Green Council with the aim of encouraging the industrial and commercial sectors to include environmental protection in their management and production processes.

With the motto “Conservation begins with Education”, the Green Council is fully committed to continuing education and training on sustainable procurement, environmental management, waste management, energy conservation, etc.

The Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Industry Association (HKECIA) was established in 1990 to promote Hong Kong as a world-class exhibition and convention destination and the trade fair capital of Asia Pacific. It works to represent the interests of all members involved in the exhibition and convention industries, and provides a unified voice in dealing with the government, legislative and statutory bodies, the media and public organisations, on all matters associate with the role of the exhibition and convention industry in Hong Kong’s economy.

Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:
The HKECIA holds a strong commitment towards sustainability development. The Sustainability and Operations Sub-committee is identifying and measuring initiatives which target the reduction of waste and the reusing of materials for the industry. The HKECIA is aiming within the next year to establish a “HKECIA Sustainable Charter” which the Association will invite its members to sign as part of their commitment to being an agent for positive change.

Founded in September 2018, Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA) creates a platform that offers channels and opportunities to facilitate the development of green finance and sustainable investments in Hong Kong and beyond. It aims to mobilize both public and private sectors resources and talents in developing green finance policies, to promote green finance business and product innovation within financial institutions.

The Hong Kong PropTech Association (HKPTA) is an independent, not-for-profit organization representing Hong Kong’s PropTech community. The Association aims to build a collaborative ecosystem of real estate technology stakeholders from property developers and technology companies to investors and startups by creating awareness, employment, education, advocacy, and investment opportunities around PropTech. We are dedicated to fostering communication, driving innovation agenda within the property industry, and encouraging technology-enabled solutions to improve our lives, businesses, cities, and the environment.

Our sustainability goals for 2022:

Directly addressing economic, environmental and social issues matter to us and our community. The association is committed to advocating for and integrating the adoption of sustainable strategies that follow the recommendations of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), in particular SDGs #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13. Above all, we are committed to the well being and the greater good of the Hong Kong community.

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is one of the world’s most respected professional engineering associations. Established in 1818, it has 95,000 members across the globe. ICE’s vision is to place civil engineering at the heart of society, delivering sustainable development through knowledge, skills and professional expertise.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

• Place the decarbonisation of our industry at the heart of our agenda (UNSDG 9.4)
• Working with others, both in the UK and overseas, to build resilience and mitigate the significant effects of climate change (UNSDG 13)
• Transform the availability of potable water and sanitation across the world (UNSDG 6 & 7)
• Transform the productivity of our industry by driving modeern methods of procurement and manufacture (UNSDG 8 & 9)
• Enhance the knowledge, insight and ethical understanding of engineers wherever they work across the world

International Chamber of Sustainable Development (ICSD) is an NGO and a Learned Society based in Hong Kong with a branch in the U.K.

We have launched the first ESG certification program in Hong Kong, called Certified ESG Planner (CEP®). This program provides students with a comprehensive understanding of ESG development, allowing them use our signature trademarked 5-step methodology CEPAR to tackle the pressing ESG issues faced by organisations. Currently, we have nearly 1,000 CEP®

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

• To foster greater collaboration among ICSD’s members, providing additional resources, tools, or training with an aim to further enhance their understanding of sustainable practices
• To enhance ESG knowledge and sharing between the ICSD HK and it’s branch in UK
• To publish a book by ICSD
• To further promote CEP® to mainland China, employers and a wider community

 Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:

ICSD aims to accelerate sustainable development in Hong Kong by our activities include:

• Education and training
• Certification
• Initiatives and campaigns
• Commentary on public policies
• Research and publication
• Projects to support sustainable development (environmental and social aspects)
• International and local conferences and seminars

The Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help its members connect with customers and other businesses in Hong Kong and with Spain. Our goal is to help connect our members to improve their business and their public image. The Chamber organizes activities that are designed to expand the member’s network and add value through community knowledge sharing and business events.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

• 100% happy employees
• Transform towards a net zero company
• Assist our members in their own transformation to sustainability
• Key focus on ESG policies for the Chamber and its members

The Consulate General of Sweden is the official representation of Sweden in Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR. The Consulate General promotes Sweden and Swedish interests, as well as cooperation, trade and exchanges between Sweden and Hong Kong and Sweden and Macau. It also provides consular services and support to Swedish citizens.

Our sustainability goals for 2023:

• Sweden is fossil-free and climate-neutral by 2045

WWF-Hong Kong’s vision is to transform Hong Kong into Asia’s most sustainable city. Throughout our over four decades of existence, we have strived to transform this version into reality through action: we work to mitigate the looming effects of climate change, we promise nature conservation and environmentally responsible consumption, and we put our hearts into educating people about the beauty, fragility and complex of our natural world.

Illuminem is the leading source of sustainability news and the compass to guide the world into a collaboratively green vision, offering the most effective, updated and comprehensive access to energy & sustainability information. In a world where information is key, we act to transform each of our readers into leaders creating a more sustainable tomorrow.

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