Hong Kong gears up to host largest Asia-focused sustainable finance event
Hong Kong will welcome 300 finance executives and international speakers to its largest sustainable finance event, which is scheduled for July 1st and 2nd.
Titled “Empowering Sustainability Prosperity in Asia,” the event aims to facilitate knowledge-sharing and collaboration on the low-carbon transition across Southeast, Central, and East Asia.
The event, scheduled at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), will feature seminars and discussions on sustainable finance policies, sustainability disclosures, the transition to a low-carbon economy, and financing for biodiversity and ocean conservation initiatives.
Ma Jun, chairman of the co-host Capacity-building Alliance for Sustainable Investment (CASI), said, “The CASI event will bring together over 30 speakers with sustainable finance knowledge from Hong Kong, mainland China, Europe, North America, Australia, and east, south, and central Asia”, South China Morning Post reported.
The other co-hosts are the Beijing think tank Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS), the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office and HKU.
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Launched during the COP28 global climate summit in December, CASI is an international platform that provides training and fosters knowledge exchange in sustainable finance across developing nations.
The Hong Kong event will be followed by a two-day field visit by around 130 participants to Huzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, a hub for green finance pilot projects.
Ma added, “Huzhou is the best-performing among China’s first batch of eight cities where green finance pilots were launched in 2017. Participants will visit local banks to learn how their sustainability rating system works and see the local government’s platform for matching green projects to finance providers.”
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