The Scope 3 Challenge

Aneesa Walji is an independent Sustainability Advisor and former United Nations staff member, with a track record of helping actors across sectors navigate the growing complexities of business for people, planet and profit. She is a lawyer with 15 years of experience working in partnership with business, government and civil society across Asia, Africa and North America, as well as at the international policy level.

In the course of her career, she has covered issues ranging from labour conditions in Sri Lankan tea plantations to air pollution in Bahrain and modern slavery regulation from an investment perspective. Recently, she led the United Nations Development Programme’s work on responsible business conduct in the Arab States region.

Her diverse work experiences across sectors, regions and substantive areas of focus have given Aneesa a systems-level perspective of the interconnected elements of sustainability, as well as a deep understanding of the evolving global regulatory landscape. She brings expertise in strategy development, multi-stakeholder engagement, training and awareness raising, responsible sourcing and impact assessments, among other areas.

Aneesa holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies, a Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto and a Master of Laws from New York University. She also holds several certifications, including from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

1. Conversations for new ideas and approaches – e.g. Re-Think!

2. Encourage recognition of the interconnections between environmental and social dimensions.

3. Promote win-win approaches through public-private partnerships.

Yoonmee Jeong heads the Sustainability Office for the Global Wholesale Banking division of OCBC. The Office plays a key role in driving OCBC’s sustainability and decarbonisation strategy through leading the Net-Zero Project to assess the Bank’s financed emissions, offering practical and credible sustainable banking solutions to the Bank’s corporate and institutional clients, and developing strategies for transition financing and ESG risk management.
Since joining OCBC in 2019, Yoonmee has spearheaded the Bank’s sustainable finance activities, leading her team in innovative transactions across diverse sectors and markets. In 2023 alone, the Bank advised over 100 corporates on sustainable financing.
Prior to joining OCBC, Yoonmee worked in the Sustainable Finance team of BNP Paribas Global Markets in Hong Kong, coordinating the launch of a sustainable finance programme for Corporate and Institutional clients, and advising on several inaugural sustainability bond issuances in the region.
With nearly two decades of experience in financial institutions, Yoonmee has gained valuable expertise in sustainable finance and business development across diverse markets, including Seoul, Hong Kong, Paris, and Singapore. She holds a CFA charter and has earned an MBA from HEC Paris, along with a master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

Ringo is the Associate Principal of Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Business. He is responsible for managing Hong Kong Sustainability Business organization and driving client engagement activities in various sustainability services aspects for strategy consulting, managed services, cleantech and energy efficiency. Ringo has another role to lead the managed services in East Asia Japan region which provide enterprise-level cloud platform for collecting and analyzing sustainability and ESG data to support for organizational carbon emission reporting. He specialized in leveraging digitalized and technological solutions to help enterprises for climate mitigation actions and reduce carbon emissions.

In his prior role in Schneider Electric Hong Kong eco-building team, he had demonstrated his expertise included energy and carbon audits, developing energy implementation projects, and managing energy conservation measures and develop business cases with Schneider’s Smart Meters and Building Management Systems (BMS).

Prior to joining Schneider Electric’s Sustainability team, Ringo worked in SGS where he performed and reviewed over 100 carbon/ energy audits for Hong Kong, Macau and China enterprises.

Fei Li is the Global Co-Director of Disclosures with CDP. Currently, He is responsible for the development of CDP’s global disclosure strategy and CDP’s disclosure business in Asia Pacific.

Since he joined CDP in 2017, Fei Li has been working to raise the awareness and management capacity of companies in China, especially from the FMCG sector, towards environmental risks and their ESG performance. Also, he has explored how to use green finance mechanism to incentivize Chinese companies to introduce environmentally friendly supply chain policies and promote sustainable procurement practices.

Prior to joining CDP, Fei Li served various organizations of United Nations. He contributed to the implementation of Green Jobs Project in ILO’s Asia Pacific Region. Later, he was responsible for grants approval and management for the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program in UNDP China Office.

Fei Li graduated from Michigan Tech University with dual master’s degrees in Environmental and Energy Policy and Applied Nature Resource Economics. He published articles in Energy Strategy Reviews and other International and Chinese journals on renewable energy and carbon emissions trading.

Eddie has more than 26 years experience in construction and environmental field and specializes in sediment and land contamination assessment and remediation, carbon/energy management, renewable energy projects and waste/asbestos management.

He is the vice chairman of Environment Committee, Hong Kong Construction Association and member of Climate Change Business Forum of the Business Environment Council. He was appointed as a construction advisor in development of Construction Industry Council Carbon Assessment Tool and Sustainable Finance Certification scheme.  He is also appointed by Hong Kong Green Building Council to be a co-opted member of the Sustainable Development Committee, Climate Change Framework for Built Environment Embodied Carbon Expert Group member and Green Product Market Taskforce member.  Eddie is a member of UK CARES Assured Steel Certification Sustainability Technical Committee.

Eddie graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Canada, and has a Master of Science (Major in Environmental Engineering) degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Eddie is a Fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals, Certified Carbon Auditor (Cement/Steel/Concrete) under the CIC Green Product Certification Scheme, Certified Energy Manager/Carbon Audit Professional of US Association of Energy Engineer and a Qualified Project Assessor of BREEAM Infrastructure.  He is also a qualified assessor of CIC Sustainable Finance Certification Scheme and a Certified ESG Analyst CESGA® of The European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

Caring nature and society while pursuing net zero goal