Supported by the Environment & Energy Committee
Speaker:
Linden Edgell, Global Sustainability Director, ERM
Jeanne Ng, Chairwoman, Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals Limited (HKIQEP)
Mike Kilburn, Assistant General Manager for Sustainability, Airport Authority Hong Kong
We are in turbulent times – in any direction we look there are growing social, environmental, economic and climate challenges. They are of a scale and urgency that requires immediate action from the corporate and financial sectors, working in collaboration with others. Many leaders and scientists argue the 2020’s are a critical decade to alter the trajectory we are on. So where do we start?
Linden Edgell, ERM’s Global Sustainability Director will provide some perspectives on the challenges facing corporates and the financial sector – and how they are responding to the external drivers across the world.
About the speaker
Linden Edgell is the Global Sustainability Director and a Partner with ERM. She leads ERM’s corporate approach to sustainability and reporting, and the ERM Foundation, and is responsible for key elements of the company’s strategy focusing on ‘the business of sustainability’. She is involved in a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Linden manages ERM’s engagements with key global organisations including the UN Global Compact, GRI, PRI and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She has been involved in many UN events, and has co-ordinated ERM’s engagement in various UNFCCC meetings and SDGs development and implementation.
Linden is a social scientist and has provided strategic and technical advice to a range of companies, multi-lateral institutions and governments for more than 25 years. Her work has primarily focused in Australia, Asia Pacific and across Africa. Linden is listed in the ‘Who’s who for Australian women’ for her work in professional and voluntary organisations.
Dr Jeanne Ng is currently the Chair of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals Limited (HKIQEP) and Director of the CLP Research Institute. Jeanne holds a BSc in Toxicology from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Environmental Management from the University of Hong Kong. She has a decade of experience in the Hong Kong environmental industry working as one of Hong Kong’s foremost experts in air and greenhouse gas emissions inventories. She joined CLP in 2003 and led the development of the governance processes and ESG database behind CLP’s Sustainability Report and helped to set up CLP Group’s first: renewable energy targets, Climate Vision 2050 carbon reduction targets and CLP’s Sustainable Development 2030 targets.
Jeanne is currently a Board member of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University and the International Electric Research Exchange (IERE). She was previously a Board member of the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Mike Kilburn is the Assistant General Manager, Sustainability for Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK). He is responsible for developing, implementing and articulating AAHK’s “airport-wide” approach to managing Hong Kong International Airport’s environmental footprint, under which AAHK collaborates closely with its airport business partners to address carbon and air emissions, waste minimization and biodiversity-related issues. He is also responsible for evolving and embedding AAHK’s sustainability strategy and for the progressive enhancement of the sustainability reporting process.
Mr. Kilburn is Chair of Airports Council International’s World Environment Standing Committee, and Chair of the Hong Kong General Chamber’s Environment and Sustainability Committee.
Prior to joining AAHK in 2012 he worked in environmental and public policy NGOs in Hong Kong, where he developed and engineered the implementation of policy-level solutions to the city’s challenges around air quality and public health, biodiversity, and land use planning.
This event is hosted by Andrew Seaton.
Ticket includes a full hot English breakfast buffet.
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