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.
The 2025 program is jointly partnered with Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) and sponsored by Cooley Hong Kong.
Date: May 19, 2025
Apply by: May 16, 2025
Climate Investing: Transition our society to net zero with a sound financial return
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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.
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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 challenges ​
Meet like-minded climate investors and form a co-investing network
This Program is for...
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who want to gain a comprehensive knowledge and network on climate investing should participate in the course
Corporates/Businesses
Asset Managers
Individuals/Angel investors
Professors and Industry Expert Lecturers
Professor Ilya A. Strebulaev
Professor Strebulaev is an expert in corporate finance, venture and angel capital, innovation financing, corporate innovation, and financial decision-making. He also is the founder and director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative.
The David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jane Ge
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.
Managing Partner at Vectors Angel, Policy Researcher
Yixing Xu
Yixing Xu is the Research Director of Breakthrough Energy Sciences. Breakthrough Energy is the umbrella name of several organizations, founded by Bill Gates in 2015, that aim to accelerate innovation in sustainable energy and in other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He works with a diverse team of research scientists, data scientists, software engineers for projects related to clean energy.
Research Director of Breakthrough Energy Sciences
1 Day Intensive Program Plan
GUEST SPEAKERS : LEADING CLIMATE TECH EXPERTS
CASE STUDIES, DEAL DISCUSSION
Jing (Jane) Ge
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
Managing Partner, Vectors Capital
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. Professor Zhang uses systems modeling, AI, and geospatial analytics to explore net-zero solutions in buildings, transport, and cities. With 300+ publications in top journals and leadership roles in journals like Land Use Policy and Associate Editor for npj Urban Sustainability (Nature partner series). She also serves on major research panels and environmental institutes in Hong Kong.
Professor & Director of Hong Kong University Sustainability X-Lab
Zhang, Xiaoling
Dr. Junfeng Li
Venture Partner, HongShan (Sequoia China); Chairman, Sequoia Institute for Carbon Neutrality
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). He received the Ninth Annual Zayed Future Energy Prize Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. Dr. Li is a member of China's National Energy Advisory Council and serves on expert committees for national ecological protection, energy internet, and high-tech programs. He advises the governments of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shanxi on low-carbon development. Dr. Li is also President of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association and the Renewable Energy Professional Committee of the China Energy Research Society. From 1982 to 2011, he served at the Energy Research Institute of the NDRC, including a decade as Deputy Director General. He is the author of major works on climate change and renewable energy and contributed to the IPCC’s Second to Fourth Assessment Reports.
Donovan (Don) Chang
Energy Transition, Bloomberg NEF
Donovan (Don) Chang is a member of BloombergNEF's client coverage team for Hong Kong & Taiwan collaborating closely with financial and corporate sector stakeholders to finance, accelerate, and advance the global energy transition, with a focus in the private sector. Before joining BloombergNEF, Don was an ESG & Climate consultant at MSCI during and after the COVID-19 period, a time when global sustainability became a central focus. This experience provided Don with extensive exposure and a proven track record in working with the financial sector on various sustainability-related initiatives. Don holds a double major in Economics and History from the University of Alberta.
Xenia Chiu
Associate, Cooley Singapore
Xenia Chiu focuses her practice on venture capital and growth equity transactions, private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate matters. She advises startups and emerging growth companies at all stages of their corporate lifecycles, including initial company formation, day-to-day corporate governance matters, early and late stage venture financings and exit opportunities such as mergers and acquisitions. She also represents venture capital and private equity investors in financing transactions in the U.S. and Asia.
Ruomu Li
Partner, Cooley Shanghai
Ruomu focuses her practice on complex mergers & acquisitions, private equity transactions and venture capital investments. She has nearly 20 years of experience in a broad range of transactions in the life sciences and technology industries, including buy-side and sell-side public and private mergers, going private transactions, de-SPAC transactions, stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs, joint ventures and minority investments. Ruomu started her legal career in the Silicon Valley and has practiced in the Silicon Valley for close to a decade.
“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.”
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- Tory Read, Founder, Studio Kakapo
Previous Bootcamp Participant
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Format and Duration :
Duration : 1 day
Date : May 19, 2025
Location: MIT HK Innovation Node, 1st Floor, 78 Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Format : Mix of speaker lectures and real company due diligence​
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Application Due: May 16, 2025
Workshop Program Fee : $499 USD. Discounts available for Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) member and complementary available for the University of Hong Kong top students and staff member. All program fees contribute to covering logistic cost.