Net Zero & Nature Positive Theatre (Keynote)
Hong Kong’s Net-Zero Pathway: Coming Together for Our Decisive Decade
Day 1 : 10:00 – 10:50
We are in the decisive decade for climate action. The push for net zero is driving businesses to come together and deliver on ambitious pledges to reduce their carbon footprint. In face of escalating climate risks, how are industry players in Hong Kong joining forces for an urgent, coordinated response with policymakers, investors, innovators and the wider society?
Learnings
- How are some of Hong Kong’s most complex organisations working to engage internal and external ecosystems to navigate climate action across multiple industries and geographies?
- What systemic changes and partnerships are needed to help us execute climate commitments, and turn transition risks to opportunities? How can we work together to tackle challenges, while maintaining growth ambitions and shareholder value creation?
- How can leadership companies leverage innovation to inspire ambition and drive solutions to reduce our carbon footprint over the next five to ten years? What are our biggest barriers?
Post-Event Actions
- Gain insights on leading organisations’ carbon reduction approaches and cross-industry solutions.
- Rethink actions that your company and industry should focus on over the next ten years to turn risks into leadership opportunities, and make meaningful impact at the scale needed to address today’s most pressing climate challenges.
- Understand why business leaders have a compelling and common interest to work along each other and ensure the transformation of every aspect of industry to contribute to a net-zero economy by 2050.
Speakers
Moderator
Anne Kerr
Chair
Anne Kerr
Chair
Dr Anne Kerr, Managing Director Greater China, at Mott MacDonald is actively involved in the British Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong where she chaired the Environment and Energy Committee, created the Smart City Forum, was Vice Chair and now Chair of the General Committee having been appointed in September 2022.
Patrick Healy
Chairman
Patrick Healy
Chairman
Patrick Healy is Chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited and Swire Coca-Cola Limited. He is also a Director of John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Limited, an Executive Director of Swire Pacific Limited and a Non-Executive Director of Air China Limited.
Mr Healy has been with the Swire Group for more than 30 years. He joined John Swire & Sons in 1988 as a management trainee. After six years with the Group’s Industries Division in Hong Kong and Germany, he transferred to the Beverages Division in 1994, where he worked in various roles across the Group’s Mainland China Coca-Cola bottling operations in Beijing, Nanjing, Xian and Xiamen until 2012. He was General Manager of the Shaanxi bottler from 2001-2005 and General Manager of the Fujian bottler from 2005-2008. In July 2008 he was appointed CEO, HAECO Xiamen. Mr Healy returned to Hong Kong in 2012 to take up the role of Managing Director, Swire Coca-Cola. He became Chairman of Swire Coca-Cola and Cathay Pacific on 1st October and 6th November 2019 respectively.
Mr Healy is a Member of the Task Force on External Relations chaired by The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development. In addition, Mr Healy is an Advisory Board Member of the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) and a Member of the Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong General Committee.
Mr Healy was born in 1965 and graduated in 1988 from St. John’s College, Cambridge University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages. He is married with three children.
My Sustainability Goals for 2023:
Driving the rollout of the group sustainability strategy SwireTHRIVE and associated targets.
Luanne Lim
Chief Executive, Hong Kong
Luanne Lim
Chief Executive, Hong Kong
Luanne Lim was appointed Chief Executive, Hong Kong, HSBC, in 2022, having previously served as Chief Operating Officer, Hong Kong, HSBC, a role that she has held since 2017.
Ms Lim has more than 25 years of banking industry experience. Since joining HSBC in Singapore in 1999, she has held leadership roles and spearheaded strategic initiatives across HSBC’s key markets, including mainland China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. She is currently a board member of HSBC Bank (Vietnam) Ltd.
She is a Vice Chairperson of HK Association of Banks, and sits on the Banking Advisory Committee and Financial Infrastructure and Market Development Sub-Committee of HK Monetary Authority. She is also a council member of Treasury Markets Association, and a member of Academy of Finance, Financial Education Coordination Committee of the Investor and Financial Education Council, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Taskforce on Trade and Investment of the HK Trade Development Council.
My Sustainability Goals for 2023:
The global climate crisis requires global solutions. As Hong Kong’s global bank, we are committed to partnering with our customers, including those in heavy emitting sectors, to support their transition.
Albert Wong
CEO
Albert Wong
CEO
Mr. Albert Wong has 30-plus years of commercial, industrial and leadership experience through roles with various multinationals that have provided him with deep China and Asia-Pacific insight, plus critical understanding of building companies and investment networks, and solving market needs. Prior to HKSTP, he spent 15 years in total with GE at its US headquarters, Asia-Pacific and China. He served as CEO, GE Oil & Gas China, as well as CEO, GE Industrial Solutions Asia Pacific.
Johnny Yu
Head of Sustainability
Henderson Land Group
Johnny Yu
Henderson Land Group
Head of Sustainability
Johnny YU, is presently the Advisor to the Chairman and the Head of Sustainability Department at the Company. He joined in 2020, bringing with him 30 years of extensive experience across multiple disciplines, including sales and marketing, investment advisory, accounting, tax, and risk management and control. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Yu held various senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse, and Price Waterhouse in both Hong Kong and London. Under his leadership, he successfully guided the Company to achieve the prestigious Business Leadership in Sustainability Award at the Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards 2022, organized by the World Green Building Council. Additionally, Mr. Yu won the Sustainability Leader of the Year as well as the Distinguished Sustainability Leadership Awards in Hong Kong Sustainability Award 2024, organized by the Hong Kong Management Association. Mr Yu graduated from The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London with a bachelor’s degree in Management Science and attained his MBA degree in Finance with City University of London. He is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and Chartered Financial Analyst Institute.
Supported by
The British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
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.
Meet our speakers:
With thanks to
Cathay Pacific
As a Hong Kong-based airline with extensive global networks, Cathay Pacific is committed to adopting sustainable practices within our operations and along the value chain. Together with our people, customers and industry partners, we are leading the way for a sustainable and carbon neutral future.
Our sustainability goals for 2025:
- Continue to focus on quality, compliance and operational excellence to ensure our customers and our people are as safe as possible
- Devise short, mid and long term work plans to meet net zero carbon goals by 2050
- Engage in innovative projects related to single-use plastics and food waste reduction
- Prioritise employee safety and wellbeing while adapting to the changing business circumstances
- Support local communities where we serve
UN SDG goals that we align with:
- SDG 5 Gender Equality
- SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG 13 Climate Action
- SDG 14 Life below Water
- SDG 15 Life on Land
Legal Name: Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
General Enquiry Email Address: sustainability@cathaypacific.com
General Enquiry Phone Number: 27473333
Meet our speakers:
Henderson Land Group
At Henderson Land, we believe businesses have a transformative role to play in shaping a sustainable future. Guided by our G.I.V.E. strategies – Green for Planet, Innovation for Future, Value for People, and Endeavour for Community – we have set ambitious goals in our 2030 Sustainability Vision. The core pillars of G.I.V.E. define our approach and reflect our ongoing commitment to create lasting value for our stakeholders and the communities we serve.
Our sustainability goals for 2025:
1. All new office development projects target to achieve BEAM Plus Gold Rating or above
2. Adopt digital and smart building features at 100% of our new office and commercial developments and 90% of our residential developments
3. Minimise accident frequency rate to <6.7 out of 1,000 workers
Legal Name: Henderson Land Development Company Limited
General Enquiry Email Address: henderson@hld.com
General Enquiry Phone Number: 2908 8888
General Business Address: 72-76/F, Two International Finance Centre, 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong
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HSBC
Co-Headline Sponsor for the Finance & Supply Chains Theatre
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is the founding member of the HSBC Group. HSBC serves customers worldwide from offices in 62 countries and territories. With assets of US$3,001bn at 31 March 2024, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations.
Our purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. We’re here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up new kinds of opportunity for our customers. We’re bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share.
Our sustainability goals for 2024:
“We’re focused on helping to deliver a net zero global economy. It’s a pillar of our strategy as a business.”
In 2020, we set an ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050 and since then we have announced several significant policies and ambitions around climate and the transition. In January this year, we published our first Net Zero Transition Plan – setting out our strategic vision and approach to net zero.
We want to make financing choices that can lead to a meaningful impact on emissions reduction in the real economy, not just in our portfolio. Achieving this requires engagement with our clients and customers on their transitions to help finance decarbonisation in the sectors and regions with the most change ahead.
We believe we can do this best by promoting change in three key areas that play to our strengths as an organisation and can help deliver a broader impact on decarbonisation in the real economy: transitioning industry, catalysing the new economy, and decarbonising trade and global supply chains.
UN SDG goals that we align with:
- SDG 13 Climate Action
Legal Name: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Co-Headline Sponsor for the Innovation and Technology Theatre
HKSTP is leading the growth of Hong Kong’s I&T ecosystem and propelling the city as an international I&T powerhouse. We serve as a beacon of cutting-edge technology, igniting the transformative power of innovation, launching the dreams of thousands of aspiring start-ups and achieving the global ambition of innovators.
Our sustainability goals for 2023:
- HKSTP’s Net-Zero 2045 Vision aligns with Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050 and its goal of propelling the city into the international green tech and green finance centre.
- A comprehensive roadmap is set to control carbon emissions within HKSTP’s properties and across its extended value chain.
- HKSTP and Green Tech Park companies strive to create a virtuous cycle of green innovation and investment that will drive sustainability and even more innovation.
Solutions Showcase:
- Carbon Management/Carbon Offset
- Efficient Energy & Utilities
- Green/Smart Buildings/PropTech
- Renewable Energy
- Technology & Innovation
Legal Name: Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
General Enquiry Email Address: sust@hkstp.org
General Enquiry Phone Number: 26290177
General Business Address: 5/F, Building 5E, 5 Science Park East Avenue, Hong Kong
