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Hong Kong ESG trends
HKSAR Government updates Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Hong Kong
On 31 December 2025, The HKSAR Government promulgated the updated Hong Kong Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP), which sets out the strategies and priority actions Hong Kong will adopt over the next 10 years to protect nature and support sustainable development, to protect Hong Kong’s biodiversity and thereby contribute to national and global efforts towards the goal of achieving harmony between humans and nature.
Lianhe Green Insights
The Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP) updated by Hong Kong at the end of 2025 is a precise local implementation of the global Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and national conservation strategies. Building on the inaugural 2016 version, it aligns with local ecological endowments and stakeholder demands, embodies the philosophy that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, dovetails with the development of a Beautiful China, and sets out a clear, actionable roadmap via its ten-year planning horizon.
International ESG trends
Trump abandons international climate, biodiversity and energy bodies
On Jan 7, US President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from dozens of international organisations, including many that work to combat climate change.
Nearly half of the 66 affected bodies are UN-related, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change - a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming.
Groups working on development, gender equality and conflict - areas the Trump administration had repeatedly dismissed as advancing "globalist" or "woke" agendas - are also included.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp80ln97py5o
Lianhe Green Insights
The Trump administration's withdrawal from 66 climate-related international organizations and multilateral mechanisms directly undermines the foundation of multilateral cooperation in global climate governance, impairs international collaboration on climate research and renewable energy promotion, risks setting a negative precedent, and seriously delays the progress toward the global carbon neutrality goal.
Mainland China ESG trends
The Ministry of Commerce and 8 other departments jointly issued the Notice on Implementing the Green Consumption Promotion Initiative.
Centering on improving the green consumption incentive mechanism, it puts forward 20 specific measures across 7 key areas, covering agricultural products, home appliances and home decoration, catering and accommodation, etc. Meanwhile, it clarifies supporting policies such as financial incentives, optimizes the green consumption environment, and aims to pool the synergy of policy guidance, market-driven forces and public participation. The initiative is designed to popularize green consumption behaviors, mature market mechanisms, build universal social consensus, inject green impetus into high-quality development, promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle, and accelerate the green transformation of consumption patterns.
Source: http://mofcom.gov.cn/gztz/art/2026/art_74dfdcbc608e46b194e82d0a12f3acb5.html
Lianhe Green Insights
The new green consumption policy jointly launched by 9 departments achieves full coverage of sectors and supporting measures. It leverages financial support to unblock supply-demand chains, guides consumers to prefer green products, and forces industrial chains to undergo green upgrading, making ESG a key element of corporate competition. Leading enterprises and niche track players will be the first to benefit. In the long run, it will drive the shift of consumption patterns from policy-driven to habit-formed, laying a solid consumption-side foundation for the "dual carbon" goals.
The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and other relevant departments have issued the Measures for the Administration of Green Product Certification and Labeling.
To accelerate the establishment of a sound and unified green product certification and labeling system, and standardize green product certification activities and the use of green product labels, SAMR, together with relevant departments, has revised and issued the Measures for the Administration of Green Product Certification and Labeling (SAMR Certification Regulation No. 5〔2025〕, hereinafter referred to as the Measures). This marks the first time that China has introduced a comprehensive and unified systematic regulation on green product certification activities, signifying a major shift of the country’s green product certification and labeling system from single-label management to full-chain certification supervision.
The revised Measures are formulated based on the principles of "unified product catalog, unified evaluation standards, unified certification rules, and unified product labels". Focusing on the full-process supervision of green product certification activities, they clarify the hierarchical and classified management approach for the system, and define the applicable scenarios of full-item and item-specific certification for green products. Meanwhile, the Measures specify detailed provisions on certification implementation, certificate management, label use, and supervision responsibilities, clarifying the primary responsibilities of all relevant parties and providing clear guidance for related work. Up to now, the green product certification catalog covers a total of 122 consumer-oriented product categories including electronic appliances, furniture, building materials, express packaging, and textiles, with nearly 40,000 valid certification certificates involving more than 8,000 certified enterprises.
Source:
http://maglev-pt.org.cn/index.php?m=home&c=View&a=index&aid=764
Lianhe Green Insights
The implementation of the Measures for the Administration of Green Product Certification and Labeling marks the shift of green product certification from label management to standardized full-chain supervision. The principle of "four unifications" sets clear standards for verification work, while the hierarchical and classified management approach caters to the differentiated needs of full-item and item-specific certification. Verification work should focus on core priorities including sample authenticity, production consistency and result traceability. With clearly defined responsibilities and standardized procedures as key leverage points, it will consolidate the credibility of certification and drive the high-quality development of the green product market.
The National Green Development Fund led the investment in the world’s first commercial-scale green methanol project integrating green hydrogen with biomass gasification.
Recently, the National Green Development Fund invested RMB 495 million as the lead investor in Shanghai Green Innovation Era Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Shanghai Electric Group, to support the construction of its Jilin Taonan Green Methanol Project (Phase II). As the world’s first commercial demonstration project for green methanol production via green hydrogen coupled with biomass gasification, the Phase II expansion will further scale up the project and extend its layout to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This will enable the high-value resource and energy utilization of biomass waste, creating a new shipping decarbonization pathway from farmlands to the open seas.
Source: https://www.ngd-fund.com/article/429
Lianhe Green Insights
The project accurately caters to the decarbonization needs of shipping and aviation sectors, integrating the resource utilization of biomass waste with the large-scale supply of green fuels. It not only responds to international maritime emission reduction policies, but also supports the construction of Shanghai International Shipping and Green Fuel Bunkering Center. As a national-level pilot project and an internationally recognized benchmark, its successful practice provides a replicable Chinese solution for empowering the industrialization of green technologies through capital and advancing deep decarbonization in the transportation sector.
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