香港年度盛事StartmeupHK创业节的揭幕活动之一「1.5°C 峰会──以科技定义未来十年」今日圆满结束，各界在会上达成共识，遂以突破性科技驱动香港和其他城市在当下关键十年缓减气候变化影响，建构可持续未来。1.5°C峰会由新世界发展旗下开放式创新平台Eureka Nova 主办，今年第二届汇聚共50 位行业专家、企业家、政策制定者和商界领袖参与10 场研讨会，会上展示28个气候科技初创公司的展位，并吸引500 多名香港及海外人士登记出席网上和现场活动。
1.5°C 峰会连续两年成为StartmeupHK创业节的重点节目之一，为期一整天的网上及现场研讨活动聚焦气候变化和可持续发展等议题，为创业节揭开序幕。放眼在香港於2050 年前实现碳中和的目标，1.5°C 峰会重点探讨在当下十年大幅度减少碳排放的所需对策，当中涉及零碳排放创新技术、绿色建築节能科技的应用、环保交通运输方案，以及重塑减废行动等。1.5°C峰会受到联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）的启发，因它已多次强调，只有及时采取减缓行动，才有望将全球暖化升幅控制在摄氏1.5度以内，缓解引发气候变化最危险和不可逆转的影响。
投资推广署助理署长吴国才先生在开幕典礼上发言指出：「是次峰会不仅展现香港作为创新企业进入内地和亚洲市场的桥樑角色，更突出了香港在发展绿色及可持续金融方面的光明前景。凭藉我们作为国际金融中心的优势，将能够促进国际资本与优质绿色项目的合作，从而助力香港於2050年前实现碳中和目标，以及推动绿色经济转型。峰会更提供了一个配对合适投资者以及服务创业者的重要平台，令创业家、投资者和企业共聚一堂，合力推动行业的真正影响力和增长。」
新世界发展开放创新平台助理总经理黄振南先生於开幕致辞中表示：「我们希望透过峰会的研讨会，为公司和个人提供一个能启发思考以缔造行动的平台，并为企业和初创公司等不同的持份者创造机遇，共同制定务实的执行方案。未来，Eureka Nova将继续服务新世界生态圈和合作夥伴，加快推动具影响力的创新研发、培育初创企业并推动产品商业化。我们还将与其他企业夥伴及持份者合作，透过崭新科技应对气候变化影响，为可持续发展生态圈创造协同效应。」
在开幕典礼上，参与星级初创圆桌讨论的多位初创企业家嘉宾分享灼见，包括Vantem Global Inc.的Chris erson先生、安培能源的Anthony Stewart先生、Avant Meats的锺子健先生、Intensel的Entela Benz博士，以及香港特别行政区低碳绿色科研基金评审委员会的锺芯豫女士。他们向与会者细述运用突破性科技缓解气候危机的心路历程，以及他们为世界带来的正面影响。
1.5°C 峰会於K11 ATELIER King's Road举行并同时进行现场直播。1.5°C 峰会致力在社会上促成联合一致的努力，创造可持续发展的未来。同时，透过新世界於2018年制订的2030 可持续发展愿景（2030 愿景），驱策新世界集团遂引领行业迈向真正的可持续发展。2030愿景参照联合国可持续发展目标及新世界的业务运作，就环保、健康、智能与关爱四大方针塑造客户体验。2030愿景订下环保目标，将集团的能源及碳排放强度较2015财政年度基準年水平减半。今年6月，新世界发展成为亚洲第三家房地产公司获科学基础减量目标倡议组织（Science Based Target initiative, SBTi）批核其1.5°C科学基础减量短期目标并承诺会根据SBTi净零排放标準（Net-Zero Stard）制定长期减排目标，可见新世界发展肩负起减碳排放和缓解气候变化影响的长远决心。
New Wld Development Holds 1.5°C Summit 2022 Over 500 Industry Representatives Participate in Discussion on Technology to Mitigate Climate Change
"1.5°C Summit - Defining the Next Decade with Technology", one of the opening activities of Hong Kong's annual event StartmeupHK, ended successfully today. All walks of life reached a consensus at the meeting, so Hong Kong other cities will be driven by breakthrough technology in the current key ten years. Mitigate the impact of climate change build a sustainable future. Hosted by Eureka Nova, an open innovation platfm under New Wld Development, the 1.5°C Summit will bring together 50 industry experts, entrepreneurs, policy makers business leaders in 10 seminars f the second time this year, at which 28 climate technologies will be showcased Booths f start-up companies attract me than 500 people from Hong Kong overseas to register f online live events.
The 1.5°C Summit has been one of the key programs of the StartmeupHK Entrepreneurship Festival f two consecutive years. A full-day online on-site seminars focused on topics such as climate change sustainable development, kicking off the Entrepreneurship Festival. With a view to achieving carbon neutrality in Hong Kong by 2050, the 1.5°C Summit will focus on the countermeasures needed to significantly reduce carbon emissions in the next decade, including innovative technologies f zero carbon emissions, the application of green building energy-saving technologies, environmental protection Transptation options, reinventing waste reduction initiatives. The 1.5°C Summit was inspired by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has repeatedly emphasized that only timely mitigation actions can be expected to limit the increase in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius Dangerous irreversible effects.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Ng Kwok Choi, Assistant Direct of InvestHK, said, "The summit not only demonstrates Hong Kong's role as a bridge f innovative companies to enter the Mainl Asian markets, but also highlights Hong Kong's bright future in developing green sustainable finance. .With our advantages as an international financial center, we will be able to promote the cooperation of international capital high-quality green projects, so as to help Hong Kong achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 promote the transfmation of the green economy. The summit also provides a match f suitable invests an imptant platfm f entrepreneurs, bringing entrepreneurs, invests businesses together to drive true impact growth in the industry.”
Mr. Huang Zhennan, Assistant General Manager of New Wld Development Open Innovation Platfm, said in his opening speech, "We hope to provide companies individuals with a platfm that can inspire thinking create actions through the seminars at the summit, provide companies start-ups with a platfm f different In the future, Eureka Nova will continue to serve the new wld ecosystem partners, accelerate the promotion of influential innovative research development, cultivate start-ups promote product commercialization. We will also Collabate with other cpate partners stakeholders to address climate change impacts through new technologies create synergies f the sustainable development ecosystem.”
At the opening ceremony, a number of start-up entrepreneurs who participated in the star start-up roundtable discussion shared their insights, including Mr. Chris erson of Vantem Global Inc., Mr. Anthony Stewart of Ampere Energy, Mr. Zhong Zijian of Avant Meats, Dr. Entela Benz of Intensel. Ms. Chung Xinyu from the uation Committee of the Low Carbon Green Research Fund of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. They told attendees their journey through the use of breakthrough technologies to mitigate the climate crisis the positive impact they have had on the wld.
The 1.5°C Summit was held at K11 ATELIER King's Road was broadcast live simultaneously. The 1.5°C Summit is dedicated to fostering a united efft in society to create a sustainable future. At the same time, through the 2030 Sustainability Vision (Vision 2030) fmulated by New Wld in 2018, New Wld Group has been driven to lead the industry towards truly sustainable development. The 2030 Vision refers to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals New Wld's business operations, shapes customer experience with four maj principles: environmental protection, health, intelligence care. Vision 2030 sets out environmental targets to halve the Group's energy carbon emissions intensity from the base year level in FY2015. In June this year, New Wld Development became the third real estate company in Asia to be approved by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) f its sht-term 1.5°C science-based reduction target pledged to achieve net zero emissions accding to SBTi The Net-Zero Stard sets long-term emission reduction targets, which shows that New Wld Development shoulders the long-term determination to reduce carbon emissions mitigate the impact of climate change.
This article comes from: yiwiq.com New Wld News Department - Jiang Tao