Decarbonization

HKUST Business School and the HKUST Green Finance Research Project convened an industry roundtable event, entitled “Navigating the Convergence of Tech, Finance, and Sustainability in Establishing Hong Kong as an International Green Technology and Financial Center” on 23 July 2024. The roundtable brought together leaders from the academia, industry and ... Read More

Starting January 1, 2026, listed businesses in Hong Kong will be required to report their ESG performance in line with the new climate-related disclosure requirements. Prof. Christine Loh, Chief Development Strategist of HKUST Institute for the Environment (IENV) and Co-PI of HKUST Green Finance Research Project, shared insights on the recent developments in ... Read More

The GHG Emissions Calculation and Estimation Tools, co-developed by HKUST and the Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group, are a set of free and publicly accessible tools that companies and financial institutions can use as an alternative source of information. The calculation tool enables users, especially small and medium-sized ... Read More

Prof. Christine Loh, Chief Development Strategist of HKUST Institute for the Environment (IENV) and Co-PI of HKUST Green Finance Research Project, and Ms. Helene Li, Co-Founder & CEO of GoImpact Capital Partners, shed light on the significance of decarbonization for businesses and practical tools to help enterprises drive the net-zero journey in a webinar ... Read More

The op-ed by Prof. Christine Loh discusses how the carbon tracker tools contribute to building a new corporate governance system based on their carbon emissions, and how the Hong Kong government can capitalize on the tools to make Hong Kong a leader in this new corporate governance system in the climate change era. ... Read More

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) collaborated with the Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group to develop the greenhouse gas emissions calculation and estimation tools (GHG emissions tools) to facilitate sustainability reporting by corporates and financial institutions in Hong Kong. Launched in February 2024, the ... Read More

China’s pledge on September 22 to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 was a major piece of good news for the world. Not only that, on September 30, China also called for biodiversity protection. Both announcements were made at the UN, signifying China will work within multilateral systems. The carbon neutrality commitment did not come out of the blue ... Read More