Hong Kong to host city’s largest Asia-focused green finance training event with 300 guests
- Empowering Sustainability Prosperity in Asia will focus on fostering the low-carbon transition in southeast, central, and east Asia
Hong Kong will host 300 finance executives and international speakers next week in what will be the city’s largest sustainable finance event focused on talent development in emerging Asian economies.
Empowering Sustainability Prosperity in Asia aims to share knowledge and foster collaboration on the low-carbon transition in the region, with an emphasis on southeast, central, and east Asia.
With seminars and discussions on sustainable finance policies, sustainability disclosures, the low-carbon transition and financing of biodiversity and ocean conservation, the event will take place at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Monday and Tuesday.
“Hong Kong, an international finance centre, is also a knowledge hub,” said Ma Jun, chairman of co-host Capacity-building Alliance for Sustainable Investment (CASI). “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.
Ma, a former economist with Deutsche Bank, World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, is president of the IFS and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association.
