Greening Value Chains : Integrating Low Carbon Practices and Nature

Shruti leads the Climate Advisory team for APAC at South Pole. She has 16 years of experience across sustainability consulting and corporate sustainability with deep expertise in leading design and delivery of sustainability strategy, decarbonisation solutions and transition pathways for organisations. She has led projects across a broad spectrum of sustainability topics including science based and net zero target setting, carbon budgeting and mitigation roadmaps, role of carbon credits in corporate net zero transition, climate risk and disclosures, supply chain sustainability and more. Her experience spans across multiple industries such as transportation & logistics, consumer goods, retail, energy, technology, chemicals and others.

My Sustainability Goals for 2025

Through my role as the APAC director at South Pole, with our global experience in carbon markets and climate solutions, I and my team aim to play a significant role in supporting Hong Kong’s sustainability goals by:

• Facilitating Carbon Credit Trading:
  South Pole can help companies in Hong Kong and the region to participate in voluntary carbon markets by connecting them with carbon credit projects that align with their sustainability goals.
• Providing Advisory Services:
  South Pole can offer expert advice on developing and implementing climate transition plans, including energy efficiency, renewable energy adoption, and waste reduction. We also have a dedicated team specialized in compliance reporting, greenhouse gas accounting and climate risk and opportunity assessment which could help corporations in Hong Kong improve their resilience in the changing climate.

Natalie Chan
CESGA, SCR

Natalie has extensive experience in sustainability advisory, enterprise risk management, and internal controls assessment. She holds several professional qualifications, including the Certified ESG Analyst designation from The European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies and the Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Natalie gained her professional experience from the risk advisory function in one of the big 4 firms and a listed advisory firm. She has led sustainability-related advisory projects, including but not limited to:
• Participating in the technical feasibility study meetings for HKFRS S1 and S2, hosted by HKCPA and attended by various market participants, including MPFA and HKEX.
• Providing advisory services for enhancing ESG disclosures and ratings (including MSCI ESG Rating, Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Rating, S&P Global Ratings ESG Evaluation, and Bloomberg ESG Disclosure Score) for multinational companies, a PRC-based property developer, and a PRC-based pharmaceutical manufacturer.
• Offering sustainability advisory services to SGX-listed companies across various sectors, including utilities, logistics, hotel operations, financial technology, and beauty industries, focusing on GRI Standards and TCFD disclosures.
• Developing sustainability strategies for a private shipping company and social enterprise in material regeneration.
• Delivering IPO ESG advisory services for new listing companies in Hong Kong.
• Hosting ESG and governance-related seminars and workshops for over 80 listed companies.

Ringo is the 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.

Lit Ping Low brings over 20 years of experience in driving sustainability and climate change priorities across a wide range of sectors including retail, food and beverage, hospitality and conglomerates.

As the Group Sustainability Director at DFI Retail Group, Lit Ping leads the development and implementation of DFI’s sustainability strategy, including the decarbonisation of operations and supply chain, climate and environmental sustainability risk management, and ensuring transparent sustainability disclosures. She leads and represents DFI in key partnerships and collaborations on sustainability to deliver our strategic ambition with our ecosystem partners.

Prior to DFI, she was PwC’s Asia Pacific Climate lead partner, supporting businesses and governments in developing net zero strategies, managing climate risks, and mobilising green finance. Her experience also includes extensive collaboration with international organisations such as the World Economic Forum, UNFCCC, UNEP Finance Initiative, and the Carbon Disclosure Project, contributing to global dialogues on climate transition pathways and sustainable finance frameworks.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

Lit Ping’s ongoing priorities is to lead DFI’s efforts to meet our short- and medium- term sustainability targets. In 2026, this includes looking at more breakthrough or innovative collaboration approaches that can help amplify our strategic ambition across all People, Products and Planet priorities.

Ms. Wong Shui Ki, Suki is the Senior Director of Anta Sports Products Limited (2020.HK) and is in charge of the investor relations and ESG function of the Company. Ms. Wong has over 15 years of experience in the industry. Ms. Wong has been working in ANTA Sports since it got listed in 2007. Prior to joining the Company, she had worked in investor relations agency for several years and specialized in serving H-shares listed companies. Ms. Wong holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.