Hong Kong

Another nice (but very busy) October visit to Hong Kong — but unfortunately I didn’t catch the Tai Hang dragon parade or National Day celebrations this year; hopefully I’ll be back on schedule again next year!

This trip included a series of business & academic meetings, including a visit to the new offices of Anemone Green Capital, a start-up company formed earlier this year by two of my former IETG colleagues, Hubert Tose and Jon Queen.  They’ve been growing extremely rapidly, and have already moved into bigger HK office space, as well as opening up new offices in Beijing and Shenzhen.  I’ve been working on a project involving carbon trading in both HK and China with them, and I’m very impressed with the team they’ve put together.

Anemone’s new ‘sister’ company, RESET, is also underway as well.  RESET offers ‘one stop’ carbon services for private sector companies in the region, and is run by Liam Salter.  Many of you may already know Liam — he formerly ran WWF’s climate change programme in Asia, and prior to that worked in Brussels for the Climate Action Network.  But he’s probably best known internationally for his work in developing the CDM ‘Gold Standard’ programme, a premium carbon credit for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects that is sold in both the Kyoto Protocol and voluntary carbon markets.  Liam’s new HK-based company will provide a range of energy efficiency and carbon market services, and I’m looking forward to working closely with him & his other partners in this venture as well!