Hong Kong Board of Directors
Changhua Wu
Chairperson
Changhua Wu is the Greater China Director based in Beijing. Before joining The °Climate Group, she was the Executive Director of China Operations of ENSR, working closely with multi-national corporations to support their business development in China and also their compliance with Chinese regulations.
A China specialist for about 15 years, Changhua has been leading a world-wide professional network – Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE) and serves on the Board of the Asia-Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP), the Standing Committee of Environmental Education Committee of Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, and the Advisory Committee of Clean Air Initiative - China. Before returning to China, she directed the Program for China Studies at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, DC, and consulted for multinational organizations like the World Bank, UNEP, and UNDP. She was the 1993 Fellow of World Press Institute and 2004 Fellow of the Temple law school’s High-level US-China Roundtable on Environmental Law and Policy. She holds two graduate degrees, one in Law from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the other in Environmental Policy from University of Maryland.
Jim Walker
Jim helped to set up The °Climate Group in late 2003 and is responsible for managing the Group’s operations, fund raising and research. He has worked for six years as a consultant on public and private sector responses to environmental and social challenges. With Steve Howard he has advised WWF International on the development of the Clean Development Mechanism Gold Standard and produced the business plan for The °Climate Group on behalf of Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Jim was lead author of the Mining Minerals & Sustainable Development report Finding the Way Forward on industry voluntary initiatives, and a contributor to the WWF-UK report To Whose Profit? on the business case for sustainability. He has produced stakeholder engagement reports for BP Scotland and Nirex and has developed approaches for assessing corporate exposure to climate change-related risk. Prior to his environmental career Jim was a professional athlete, competing in the British Rowing Team at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and at six World Championships. He holds a Bachelors degree in Biology and a Masters degree in Environmental Technology, both from Imperial College London.
Plato K T Yip
Plato K T Yip is the Director of Environmental Investments for Olympus Capital. Prior to joining Olympus Capital, Plato was Strategy Development Manager of CK Life Sciences International, Inc of the Cheung Kong Group, responsible for developing and executing group business strategies relating to sustainable and organic agriculture in Asia Pacific Region. Prior to that, he was Director of Centre for Environmental Management Education and Development at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Plato was appointed as a member of the Advisory Council on the Environment of the HKSAR Government from 1997 to 2001 and served as a specialist advisor to the Administration’s HK2030 Planning Vision and Strategy.
He has worked extensively with the NGO community in Hong Kong and Mainland China in his capacity as the Assistant Director of Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong) in the past, and he currently serves as the Chairman of Hong Kong People’s Council for Sustainable Development.
Steve Howard
Steve is the CEO of The °Climate Group which he co-founded in late 2003. He has worked on a variety of social and environmental issues from within business, NGO and UN settings. Whilst at The °Climate Group he has advised many world leading companies on climate change strategy and has chaired meetings with business and government leaders including the Long Beach meeting of business leaders with Governor Schwarzenegger and Prime Minister Tony Blair.