As climate-related reporting requirements under HKEX, IFRS and ESRS continue to evolve, companies are expected to demonstrate not only disclosure readiness but credible implementation. This workshop explores how organizations can operationalize sustainability by developing integrated climate mitigation and adaptation programs that translate reporting requirements into business action. Participants will learn how transition planning can support climate mitigation through GHG inventory forecasting, how to assess and quantify decarbonization levers, develop company-specific decarbonization scenarios in line with climate targets. The session will also address climate risk and resilience, including how to assess physical and transition risks and develop adaptation measures that strengthen long-term business resilience. With a focus on practical implementation steps for sustainability practitioners, how to use software for managing the data for disclosure but also active ESG management. The workshop connects regulatory expectations with decision-making across governance, finance, operations, procurement and risk management.

Session Learnings:

• Learn about requirements for both HKEX, IFRS and ESRS in regards to climate risk, GHG accounting, GHG targets and climate transition planning
• Get insights into best practice and conceptual understanding on how to develop a corporate climate transition plans
• Transition planning methodology, including GHG inventory forecasting, decarbonization scenarios and quantified reduction levers.
• Climate risk assessment, resilience analysis and adaptation program development
• Acquire knowledge on implementing these programs in your organization across governance, finance, procurement, operations and risk management beyond compliance to create sustainability initiatives creating business value.

Post-Event Actions:

• Understand how to articulate the value of these programs within your organization and decision-makers
• Baseline to create your company-specific plan for a regulatory-ready climate adaptation and climate transition plan for HKES, IFRS and ESRS
• Conceptual understanding and technical knowledge to start these initiatives within your departments and contextualizing it to your product/service system.
• Roadmap for automation and software application on corporate climate management.

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have emerged as a powerful opportunity to transform how cities and businesses respond to climate change and biodiversity loss. Increasingly recognized by governments, private sector, and professionals, NbS are being integrated into projects that deliver both ecological and social value.

This workshop will explore the multifaceted role of NbS — not only as an environmental strategy, but as a driver of innovation, resilience, and value creation to address societal challenges. Through interactive discussions, participants will discover practical approaches to embedding NbS in design and planning, uncover its potential to strengthen ESG performance and green finance, and mainstreaming NbS across disciplines and engaging the public. By positioning NbS as a catalyst for biodiversity and human well-being in cities, this workshop empowers participants to champion nature-driven approaches that accelerate Hong Kong’s sustainable development and inspire broader community participation.

Session Learnings:

• Understand key concepts, definitions and standards of NbS.
• Explore practical approaches and case studies to integrating NbS into design and planning to enhance biodiversity and improve human well-being in development projects.
• Discover the benefits of NbS in advancing ESG goals and green finance, highlighting its role in Sustainable Development Goals.
• Explore strategies and actionable pathways for mainstreaming NbS across interdisciplinary professions and engaging the wider public.

Post-Event Actions:

•  Conduct self-assessment to evaluate whether projects or investments meet the criteria of NbS standards.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with landscape architects and partnering organizations to strengthen NbS for diverse industries and sectors.
• Promote awareness and mainstream NbS through policy development, practical implementation, and education initiatives.

As ISSB-based sustainability reporting becomes mandatory across Hong Kong and many other Asian jurisdictions, organizations need more than compliance – they need an effective end-to-end reporting process.

In this joint workshop, KPMG Hong Kong and Tangelo will demonstrate how organizations can build an integrated ESG reporting journey, from understanding ISSB-based reporting requirements and establishing robust governance and data collection processes, through to producing high-quality sustainability reports and engaging stakeholders through modern digital reporting.

KPMG Hong Kong will share practical insights into materiality, value chain considerations, gap analyses, governance, and change management. Tangelo will demonstrate an integrated ESG reporting workflow, showing how organizations can streamline data collection, report production, and digital publication.

Using the award-winning Swire Pacific Sustainability Report as a real-world example, we will conclude by demonstrating how a modern sustainability microsite transforms a sustainability report into an engaging, accessible, and transparent digital experience.

Session Learnings:

• Understand how ISSB-based reporting requirements are shaping sustainability reporting across Asia.
• Learn how to establish a controlled, auditable ESG reporting process from materiality assessment to publication.
• See how integrated ESG data collection and report production can improve efficiency, governance, and reporting quality.
• Discover how digital sustainability reporting can increase stakeholder engagement beyond regulatory compliance.
• Gain practical insights from a leading corporate sustainability reporting implementation.

Post-Event Actions:

• Assess your organization’s readiness for ISSB-based sustainability reporting.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen ESG data collection, governance, and reporting workflows.
• Evaluate how digital reporting can improve stakeholder communication and transparency.
• Develop a roadmap towards an integrated, end-to-end ESG reporting process.

Building directly on the questions the panel leaves open — why Hong Kong’s HK$5,000–10,000/month segment remains unserved by both public and private models, and what it would actually take to close it — this closed-door workshop brings developers, sustainability practitioners, and NGO representatives together for a candid, action-oriented conversation. The session opens with a deeper comparative look at how peer Asia Pacific markets have approached similar gaps, before the room breaks into small facilitated tables to work through the specific blockers participants face and what commitments the industry can realistically make. Each table reports back with its own read on where responsibility sits and what should happen next.

Session Learnings:

• How Hong Kong’s housing affordability compares to 41 cities across Asia Pacific, based on the ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index 2026, and which regional delivery models are producing results
• How Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) can reduce build time by 30–50% and costs by 20–30%, with direct co-benefits for carbon emissions — drawing on evidence from Singapore, Japan, and Australia
• What specific regulatory, procurement, and financing barriers are slowing affordable and sustainable housing delivery in Hong Kong, and how they compare to challenges in peer markets
• How green finance instruments can be structured to support affordable and sustainable housing simultaneously, and what conditions need to be in place for them to work at scale in Hong Kong

Post-Event Actions:

• identify and commit to one specific action — in design, procurement, construction methods, or financing — that your organisation can take to support faster delivery of affordable and sustainable housing in Hong Kong in the next 12 months
• Explore adoption of MiC, DfMA, or low-carbon construction methods in an upcoming project or procurement process
• Assess the applicability of green finance instruments — green bonds, sustainability-linked loans — to a real housing project or investment decision within your organisation
• Share HAI 2026 data and regional benchmarks internally to build awareness of Hong Kong’s housing challenge and the cross-sector response it requires

Sustainability mandates and cost-reduction pressure are the two dominant forces shaping sourcing and product decisions in Hong Kong’s global brand offices today. Too often, they are treated as forces in conflict. This workshop challenges this paradigm head-on.

Hosted by — a Global strategic design and innovation consultancy — this session makes the case, through
evidence, tool-kit, Simplified frameworks, and hands-on group work that the product design decisions with the greatest environmental benefit are frequently the same over arching decisions that can help reduce material cost, streamline manufacturing, and improve logistics efficiency.

Drawing on 3Spheres’ methodology and real-world product development and sourcing examples across consumer products, apparel and consumer electronics, participants will work through a understanding material, recycling streams, regulations, practical cost-impact mapping exercise using a product category. The participants will leave with a personalised design lever brief — a single, actionable design change identified during the session that can be brought back to their next product development cycle.

Who should attend: Sourcing directors and managers at global brand offices, senior merchandisers – product development managers responsible for product briefs, sustainability leaders seeking commercial traction for ESG initiatives, and operations leaders managing cost-to-market performance.

Session Learnings:

• Sustainable design and cost reduction share the same upstream lever.
• The five design levers that unlock dual benefit across product categories.
• Where in the product lifecycle the sourcing team has the most leverage — and how to use it.
• How to make the commercial case for sustainable design internally.
• Cross-sector insight: the same design principles apply across consumer products, apparel and electronic.
• LCA is a great tool, where to use it, how it doesn’t solve the core material-design issues.

Post-Event Actions:

• Bring the design lever brief into the next product development cycle
• Reframe an existing sustainability requirement as a cost management proposal.
• Conduct a cost-impact audit of one existing packaging or material specification.
• Initiate a peer conversation across cross functional teams, developers, designers, sourcing and sustainability functions.
• Explore a design-led sustainability assessment for priority product lines with 3Spheres.

Nature-based solutions have moved from niche environmental concept to proven business strategy – delivering measurable returns on operational resilience, cost reduction, stakeholder trust, and regulatory readiness. Yet CGI HK’s research finds that nature remains largely a nascent topic from Hong Kong boardrooms, with limited awareness of how nature-related risks and opportunities connect to core business performance.

This workshop shifts the conversation from compliance to competitive advantage. Hosted by CGI HK in collaboration with leading sustainability specialists, the session showcases real-world examples of how Hong Kong and regional companies have deployed nature-based solutions to solve tangible business challenges – from urban heat management and water resilience to biodiversity-linked asset value and supply chain durability. Following the case study showcase, participants work in small groups to identify which nature-based approaches are most relevant and actionable for their own sector and context. Collective insights will be shared with the CGI HK community.

Session Learnings:

• Understand how leading companies in Hong Kong and the region are deploying nature-based solutions to address real operational, reputational, and financial challenges
• Discover the business case for nature across different sectors – including built environment, financial services, hospitality, and logistics – with concrete examples and outcomes
• Learn how nature-related frameworks (including TNFD considerations) can be practically integrated into corporate strategy without requiring deep technical expertise at the outset
• Leave with sector-specific ideas and a peer network to support your organisation’s first steps toward nature-positive action

Post-Event Actions:

• Share case study inspiration with colleagues and leadership – positioning nature-based solutions as a business opportunity, not a reporting obligation
• Identify one nature-related risk or opportunity most relevant to your organisation and explore what a first assessment might look like
• Connect with case study presenters for follow-up conversations on sector-specific applications
• Engage with CGI HK’s ongoing nature governance resources and peer learning network

Do you actually know what’s inside your office chair, and where it goes when you’re done with it? In this hands-on workshop, participants physically disassemble a task chair, uncovering the materials, fasteners, and design choices that most fit-outs never make visible. A live expert teardown follows, showing how each component is separated for recycling or landfill disposal. Then we unpack the recycling and upcycling pathways available in Hong Kong: what’s recoverable, where it goes, and what “recyclable” means in practice. Open to anyone responsible for sustainability commitments who wants to get their hands dirty.

Bring your curiosity. We will bring screwdrivers.

Session Learnings:

• Understand how office furniture is actually constructed and why that construction determines whether it can be recycled, refurbished, or only landfilled
• Learn to distinguish genuinely recyclable materials from “recyclable-sounding” ones, and where recoverable materials in Hong Kong are actually processed
• Explore real upcycling and recovery pathways available locally, with JEB/SOS on-the-ground expertise

Post-Event Actions:

• Initiate or revisit vendor and procurement conversations with a clearer framework for evaluating circularity claims, backed by first-hand knowledge of what’s actually recyclable versus recoverable
• Share the key takeaways with Facilities, Procurement, or leadership teams to inform upcoming fit-out or furniture decisions
• Explore how circular furniture procurement can contribute directly to your organisation’s Scope 3 emissions reduction goals and broader sustainability reporting commitments.
• Participate in the hands-on disassembly challenge for a chance to win a recycled-material notebook, with all attendees receiving a recycled pen as a tangible reminder of the circular economy in practice.