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Last Saturday, RTHK’s Climate Watcher invited Dr. Winnie Law, Programme Co-Director and Principal Lecturer of Sustainability Leadership and Governance (SLG) Programme of the Centre, together with Nancy Yau, Senior Manager of Sustainability and Corporate Communications at a major Hong Kong fast food chain and a 2025 SLG alumnus, to discuss the challenges fast food industry faces in implementing sustainability across the supply chain, as well as ways to promote environmental protection and social responsibility.

Green Industry Policies (GIPs) are vital tools for supporting decarbonization efforts worldwide. This seminar explores how institutional design influences the effectiveness of GIPs, focusing on ammonia co-combustion in Japan—a promising strategy to reduce emissions from coal-fired power generation, and examine the role of government within inter-organizational networks that facilitate low-carbon technology development and deployment.

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This taster lecture examines sustainability challenges—systemic interdependencies, policy inertia, and governance gaps—alongside climate attitudes and policy preferences in relation to the role of fossil fuel investments in carbon removal technologies. It analyses how different climate narratives influence public support for transition policies, revealing tensions between technological optimism and climate urgency in regulatory frameworks amid sustainability transition.

In an immersive start to the second semester, our SLGP students took the initiative and participated in a field trip to Pak Nai in partnership with The Nature Conservancy. The visit provided a unique opportunity to integrate classroom learning with hands-on conservation work and stakeholder engagement.