​2025 Climate Investment Workshop (Bootcamp) in Hong Kong (In Person)
One-day interactive in-person program will equip you with all the essential investment skills to create a positive impact and financial return.
​Climate Investing:
Transition Our Society To Net Zero With A Sound
Financial Return
According to the agenda of UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021, in order to help our society transition to net zero by mid-century and keep 1.5 degrees within reach, at least $100bn in climate finance per year is needed by 2020 from developed countries.Venture capital funding plays a key role to enable sound new technologies and business solutions to hit the market. The past 10 years have witnessed a boom and bust of venture investments in the area of “clean technologies”. With the promising signals of global government’s net zero commitment, and increasingly mature clean technologies such as solar, wind and electric vehicles, venture investments in climate space have reached all time high in 2020. However, despite the hype, climate investing space is complicated with policies and technology uncertainties. In this course, we aim to provide an overview of the current government policies, industry trends and much needed solutions in the climate space. Additionally, we will cover specific resources that investors should be aware of when investing in climate technologies, in order to have reasonable financial return expectations.
In This Program, You Will...
Learn current global climate policies and mandates, and what those mean for industry opportunities​
Understand the challenges in investing in clean technologies and how to avoid them to achieve sound financial returns
​Sharpen your fundamental investment skills by working on real deals with lively discussions with industry experts
Learn what solutions are really needed to combat climate challe
Meet like-minded climate investors and form a co-investing network
1 Day Intensive Program Plan
Guest Speakers : Leading Climate Tech Experts
Case Studies, Deal Discussion
Module 1
Climate Investing Overview Venture Capital Basics
Topic 1. Policy, Trends, and Opportunity Areas
Topic 2. Venture Capital fundamentals,
Topic 3. Due diligence specific to climate
Topic 4. Early Stage Commercialization Challenges.
Public-Private Partnerships
Module 2
Topic 4. Legal Basics
Topic 5. Sub-vertical market overview
Climate Investing Basics
Module 3
Topic 6. Public Policy and Government Mandates
Low Carbon Innovation Guest Speaker
Climate Investing Basics
Module 4
Low Carbon Innovation Guest Speaker
Topic 7. Corporate net zero framework
Market Deep-Dive &Corporate Net Zero Framework
Module 5
Live Due Diligence Investment Analysis on Startups
Topic 8. Investment recommendation writeup presentations
Actual Case Studies
​Jing (Jane) Ge
MANAGING PARTNER
Jane Ge is both a seasoned climate tech investor and a policy researcher. She is an affiliate researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on clean energy and climate policy research. Jane is the founder of Vectors Angel, and was previously with Goldwind Capital (Corporate venture at Goldwind), Tsing Capital (China Environmental Fund) and UC Berkeley's deep tech accelerator CITRIS Foundry
Zhang, Xiaoling
PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR OF HONG KONG
Professor Zhang is a Full Professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Real Estate and Construction and Director of the Sustainability X-Lab. A Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2022–2024) and among Stanford’s top 2% most-cited scientists in Environmental Engineering, her research spans urban ecology, energy, pollution, and SDGs.
Dr. Junfeng Li
VENTURE PARTNER
Dr. Li Junfeng is Chairman of the Academic Committee at the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) and former Director General of NCSC (2011–2016)
“Vector’s Bootcamp was a best-in-class learning experience. Their rigorous, evidence-based overview of climate solutions and the role of climate deep tech in decarbonization set the stage. Intensive, hands-on learning followed and included doing due diligence on real startups. As an investor, I went from zero to 100 in a very short time, and I felt competent to make my first angel investment as a result.
Tory Read, Founder, Studio Kakapo
PREVIOUS BOOTCAMP PARTICIPANT
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1 day
May 19, 2025
MIT HK Innovation Node, 1st Floor, 78 Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Mix of speaker lectures and real company due diligence
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May 16, 2025
$499 USD. Discounts available for Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) member & complementary available for the University of Hong Kong top students and staff member. All program fees contribute to covering logistic cost
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