Valerie Kwan

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  1. 14 Oct 2019

    Despite growing climate exacerbated extreme weather events affecting the region, Asia has the most to gain in terms of technological opportunities in climate change

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    8 Oct 2019

    Facilitating the 3rd panel at the first global TCFD summit - TCFD in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities. Great discussion on engagement with companies around innovation and opportunities in climate change.

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  3. 8 Oct 2019

    Looking forward to more green investments referencing the newly released Green Investment Guidance issued by the TCFD Consortium in Tokyo.

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  4. 7 Oct 2019

    Panel at TCFD Summit: “From Divestment to Engagement” - embrace the concept of universal ownership in investing and advocate change through engagement.

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  5. 7 Oct 2019

    Great to see high level support in pushing climate higher up on the agenda for governments, companies and investors.

    Mark Carney as one of the keynote speakers at the first global TCFD Summit in Tokyo, encourages for increased disclosure, refining metrics for decision-useful measure, building strategic resilience and to consider portfolios for transition to net zero
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  6. 23 May 2019

    Among various risks affecting enterprise resilience, climate disasters such as impact of typhoon on Japan, flooding in India, droughts in China... expose Asian economies to risks of colossal losses and business disruption.

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    16 Apr 2019

    HK SFC could do more on new ESG guidelines: ACGA

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    11 Apr 2019

    New report: Asia is the most exposed region to costs from extreme weather events in 1.5c, 2c or 3c scenario

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  9. 11 Apr 2019

    Amazing and this also serves as a constant reminder that there is a lot more work that needs to be coming for companies and investors to come to the frontlines to actively transition to climate goals in line with the Paris Agreement.

    Bloomberg take an in-depth look at Climate Action 100+: "[It] isn’t out to slay corporate climate villains; it wants to help them succeed, albeit on different terms. The movement is working, & it’s growing. And it’s coming for everyone." Via .
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    10 Apr 2019

    Japan's key Ministries: Financial Services Agency, Environment and Energy Trade &Industry (METI) launching TCFD investor &company consortium in May

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    10 Apr 2019

    Major new report: Are Asia's Pension Funds ready gor Climate Change? 'Asian economies are most exposed to climate risks but also have the most to gain from the low carbon transition'

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    8 Mar 2019

    China and the EU, as the largest green financial markets of the world, are looking to join forces to harmonize their standards for green and sustainable finance.

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    7 Mar 2019

    China's new 'Green Catalogue' just unveiled

    China's NDRC just released the first nationally unified Catalogue for green industries and projects, which will provide the basis for a consistent set of standards for green loans, bonds, ABS, funds, and other green assets. Full text (in Chinese):
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  14. 7 Mar 2019

    "...the development of a climate-intelligent agricultural model, and opening up of the ETS is one of the internationally and commonly agreed ways forward."

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  15. 3 Mar 2019

    "...producing more food, by itself, does not enable the hungry to eat. Thus, agribusiness and its philanthropic promoters are often the problem, not the solution, in feeding the world." Time to look at problems from a more holistic view..

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    14 Feb 2019

    Happy New Year of the (Roast) Pig as Hong Kong has its hottest Lunar New Year since 1884.

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    1 Feb 2019

    Ground-breaking commitment from BP to back shareholder resolution from leads asking it to align strategy & capex with well below 2 degrees goal of Delighted the Commissioners were able to support & on this

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  18. 1 Feb 2019

    Amazing progress and great examples for Asian O&G companies to follow - BP agrees to greater climate disclosure via

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    20 Jan 2019

    AIGCC is delighted to be a knowledge partner of the Asia Sustainable Finance Initiative launching today in Singapore. A multi-stakeholder solution for best-practice, science-based sustainable finance.

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  20. 17 Jan 2019

    A sobering reminder of the state of the world we are now in - the 14th edition of the Global Risks Report is now available. The following are a few key questions raised: Is the world sleepwalking into a crisis? Global risk…

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