Decarbonisation
Overview
Companies are pledging to invest in nature-based solutions that protect and restore nature while stimulating green growth. Hear from our panelists how their industries are tackling this challenge.
Learnings
- The rapidly evolving carbon marketplaces and the use of carbon offsets have the potential, in combination with other strategies, to meaningfully mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as provide valuable conservation co-benefits for people and nature.
- Impact-focused tools such as conservation financial strategies and green bonds can be efficient and attractive solutions for investors and the private sector.
- Strategic partnerships across sectors, regulations and critical research are also needed to attract companies and drive environmental conservation.
Post Event Actions
- The change we require is unprecedented in scale, and it needs to accelerate quickly.
- Hong Kong has so much potential as a global financial hub and centre of innovation. We need all sectors to support business models, financial products, new technologies and innovation to drive change towards a sustainable future.
- From learning about real-world examples from our panelists, think about how you can steer your company to contribute towards a low-carbon future while still stimulating economic growth.
Speakers
MODERATOR
Will McGoldrick
Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific
The Nature Conservancy
Will McGoldrick
Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific
The Nature Conservancy
William McGoldrick is the acting Regional Managing Director for The Nature Conservancy Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, he leads a USD $45 million program across 12 countries in support of TNC’s two foremost priorities: protecting lands, oceans and freshwater; and tackling climate change through science-based mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Robert Barker
Chief Sustainable Business Officer - CIB APAC
BNP Paribas
Robert Barker
Chief Sustainable Business Officer - CIB APAC
BNP Paribas
Rob Barker is Chief Sustainable Business Officer, CIB Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas. Building on 28 years in financial markets and 15 years at BNP Paribas, Rob leads the definition and approach for sustainable finance for the corporate and institutional banking franchise in the bank for Asia Pacific.
Lisa Genasci
CEO
ADM Capital Foundation
Lisa Genasci
CEO
ADM Capital Foundation
Lisa Genasci is the founder and CEO of ADM Capital Foundation (ADMCF), an innovative philanthropic vehicle established to support critical research and impact-driven approaches to promoting environmental conservation in Asia. Lisa has also helped lead private credit manager ADM Capital’s ESG integration, heads the ADMC ESG Committee and sits as an observer to the ADMC Investment Advisory Committee.
My Sustainability Goals for 2021:
To push for change across some of our most intransigent environmental challenges: Our depleting oceans, the nexus between forestry and development, air quality and public health, the intersections among food, energy and water.
Michael Kokora
Partner
OBJECT TERRITORIES
Michael Kokora
Partner
OBJECT TERRITORIES
Michael Kokora is a partner at OBJECT TERRITORIES, a critical design practice based in Hong Kong and New York that works at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. We engage the built environment at scales ranging from strategic interventions to architectural projects and regional masterplans. We explore the spatial conditions between objects (buildings) and territories (landscapes) to develop intelligent forms with a commitment to public space and environmental activism. Michael is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and teaches in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture programs. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Architecture degree from the Yale School of Architecture.
My Sustainability Goals for 2021:
Developing the potential for new ecologies and habitats in coastal, terrestrial, and urban conditions.
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