Australia’s Green Economic Future with China: ACBC Green Channel Initiative

01 Aug 2023

In 2022 Australia China Business Council established a new Net Zero Working Group to activate its Green Channel initiative, to highlight to Australian business and government the economic opportunities from greater collaboration with China on the Climate challenge.

ACBC’s Green Channel activities focussed on two key areas:

  • Insights (to bridge the gap in market understanding), and
  • Action (to bridge the gap in engagement and create new partnerships in new market areas)

In July 2022, the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations provided support for ACBC to commission a report and expand the program to include a range of events nationally – from the report’s launch at our Canberra Networking Day in September 2022, to industry-focussed and Sister-Province-supporting roundtable events.

Through it all, ACBC has been at the forefront of driving Australia’s re-engagement with China on the Green Economy.

Join us as we summarise the findings from this program and share our recommendations to the Australian Government from the learnings to date.

Date: Thursday, 10 August 2023

Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm AEST

Format: Online Livestream via Teams

Cost: Free

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David Olsson

National President, Australia China Business Council
David Olsson is the National President and Chairman of the Australia China Business Council and an International Director of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). He is currently based in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, where he focuses on Australian business engagement in the Greater Bay Area.

Peter Cai

Chief Executive Officer, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations
Peter Cai is the CEO of the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. Mr Cai has extensive experience in business, media, academia and government, including as Group Chief Advisor and General Manager for strategic relations at Virgin Australia, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, as a journalist with The Australian, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and at the Australian Treasury Foreign Investment Review Board Secretariat.

Claire Rogers

Head of Climate & ESG, King & Wood Mallesons
Claire Rogers is the Head of Climate Change Strategy at King & Wood Mallesons, with a focus on infrastructure, energy (including renewable energy) and Public Private Partnerships. Claire advises Sponsors and lenders on highly complex projects across all areas including the nation's major infrastructure projects, cutting edge renewable energy transactions and the emerging social housing sector.

Lynn Morrison

Partner, EY
Lynn is a Partner at EY specialising in energy (particularly renewable energy), infrastructure and construction sectors. As the first assurance partner with mainland China background in big 4 accounting firms in Australia, Lynn is dedicated to helping clients that are active in the Australia-China corridor, providing assurance services and financial advices to clients with commercial insights and deep understanding of their needs.

Ryan Skehan

Senior Manager - Corporate Affairs (Commercial & Asia), Rio Tinto
Ryan has over 20 years of corporate affairs experience across the resources and public sector. His current role is in Rio Tinto’s Commercial function, which includes the company’s sales and marketing, marine and logistics and procurement operations, and China, Japan and Korea country offices.

Anthony Coles

Chair - Net Zero Working Group, Australia China Business Council
Anthony Coles Chairs the ACBC Net Zero Working Group and is the lead architect of the Green Channel program that is highlighting the economic opportunities for Australia from greater collaboration with China on the Climate Challenge. Building on a strategic marketing background, Anthony has experience both as a Startup founder (Software) and as CEO of and ASX-listed CleanTech Company, all contributing to his current role as CEO of global growth advisory firm, GreenGold Ventures.

Maggie Song

Secretary General, Association of Green Industrial Parks
Maggie Song has been working on promoting regional ecological industrial parks, circular economy, and low-carbon development since 2001 after she got her master’s degree in the UK. She used to work as the deputy director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Tianjin Ecological & Technological Development Area, where she was in charge of the operation of the ISO14001 Environmental Management System, the establishment of National Eco-industrial Pilot Parks, and the pilot project on circular economy.