Dr. Ivan Li

Dr. Ivan LI is an Executive Director in China Galaxy International Holding limited and found the first carbon business department among all Chinese Financial Institutions in Hong Kong. He managed a team to develop innovative carbon business, green & sustainable finance products and promoting cross-border carbon trading. He led the team to create the first cross-border carbon futures product and the first domestic “Insurance + carbon futures” product, providing domestic enterprises with financial tools to hedging the CBAM risk. Among them, the “EU Carbon Emission Futures Contract Cross-Border Return Swap (TRS)” received the Pioneer Award in the Annual Green Finance Excellence Cases of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, the Best Solution Award in the Hong Kong China Finance Association’s “Excellence in Cross-Border Financial Services Awards.”, as well as 2023 The IFF Global Green Finance Award- Innovation Award. He took lead to issue the world’s first green bond using “drone + carbon satellite” certification. He successfully facilitated the first cross-border sale of “one-Yuan carbon offset project” and was awarded the Special Excellence Award in the Hong Kong China Finance Association’s “Excellence in Cross-Border Financial Services Awards.” He designed the first QFLP cross-border carbon fund, which is the first northbound fund to participate in serving the development of the domestic carbon market; and participated in the launch of the Asia Pacific Low Carbon Index ETF, which is the world’s first low carbon ETF covering the Asia Pacific region and the largest equity ETF listed on the SGX. He is one of the members of the first session of the Emission Peak and Carbon Neutrality Professional Committee of the China Society for Environmental Sciences. In the China Society for Environmental Sciences Carbon Emission Trading Professional Committee Establishment Conference and China Carbon Market Development Seminar, he was elected as a member of the Carbon Trading Professional Committee. He is also the Secretary General of the Hong Kong Energy Services Association and has been invited to join the Hong Kong Finance Development Council’s Carbon Market Opportunities Task Force as an expert.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

1.Connect carbon markets and climate financing – a goal aligned with Article 6 of the 2015 Paris Agreement -with a view to facilitate Chinese investment;
2. Move a small step forward for Hong Kong’s goals of becoming a major green and climate finance hub, amid growing concerns about the effects of climate change across the Asia-Pacific