The Green Way Forward for a Sustainable Future Seminar Series - Seminar 1: Getting Ready for the Carbon Market（只有英文版本）

Ir Raymond Fong
Director, RIE Sustainability Limited

Mr Raymond Fong is the Director of RIE Sustainability Limited which provides specialist consultancy services in carbon and energy management, ESG advisory and training, air pollution and waste management for the public and private sectors. Mr Fong is also a strong advocate of the importance of quality voluntary carbon credit standards focusing on urban and technology-based solutions to support the development of voluntary carbon market in Asia. Together with several partners, Mr Fong set up Asia Carbon Institute (ACI) and is one of the Directors of the company. ACI is a non-profit organization to develop international carbon credit standards to facilitate carbon trading in the voluntary carbon market in this region by enterprises to offset their carbon emissions. Mr. Fong is currently an Adjunct Professor of University of Hong Kong and Adjunct Professor of City University of Hong Kong.

Mr Hendrik Rosenthal
Director of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
Director – Group Sustainability, CLP Holdings Limited

Hendrik is responsible for the CLP Group’s sustainability-focused strategy, reporting and engagement. He supports the senior management in sustainability and climate-related risk management and advises on a range of sustainability matters of the Group’s power business in the Asia-Pacific region, including carbon markets, sustainability reporting standards, and compliance.

With more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and environmental management across the public, private and NGO sectors, Hendrik previously led research and consulting projects in Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. 

He currently sits on several sustainability-related committees, including as a director of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), and as a member of the IFRS Sustainability Reference Group. In Hong Kong, he serves as a member of the Sustainability Disclosure Standards Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA), a member of the Environment and Sustainability Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC), and a Steering Committee member of the Climate Governance Initiative Hong Kong Chapter.

Ms Miranda Kwan
Director of Business Assurance, SGS Hong Kong Limited

Ms Miranda Kwan is currently the Director of Business Assurance, SGS Hong Kong Limited with more than 20 years of management experience. She is responsible for the overall strategy and management of the International Certification and Training division including Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety, Information Security, Services, ESG, Greenhouse Gas Verification, Sustainability Report Assurance and Supply Chain Management. She holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemical Technology and an MBA from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. For community services, Miranda is the Member of the Trade and Industry Advisory Board, Member of the Consumer Council and Member of Business Facilitation Advisory Committee. 

Ir Dr Ivan Li
Executive Director, CGS International Holdings Limited

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.

Ivan is a carbon, AIOT and smart grid expert working in carbon and energy industry for about 15 years. He is the pioneer and researcher of carbon market. His has extensive practical experience in climate change,
carbon finance, carbon asset management, energy market and fintech innovation. He has published more than 10 SCI papers, which won 4 times in essay contests. He founded and managed a team in Hong Kong
for building of the platform for the trade of emission reduction products, which also known as the first trading platform in Hong Kong regarding emission. He was the task force of “study on emission trading in
the mainland: option for Hong Kong” which funded by Central Policy Unit (CPU). The team under his management developed and invested to the first batch of CCER projects, that was also pledged as collateral
for loans in China carbon sink project.

He has lead an innovation team in Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) of Hong Kong Government. His key responsibility was to manage and administer of innovation and technology project. He successfully invented, developed and brought the AIOT project "Non-Intrusive Data Analytics System for Adaptive Intelligent Condition Monitoring of Lifts" from 0 to 1, which has filed Hong Kong patent (Patent No.: HK30012023) , US patent (Application No. 17/098,562) and PCT patent (Application No.: PCT/CN2020/128946), and won lots of Hong Kong and International awards.