- 23 September 2026
The international academic conference "Global Energy Transition in the Uncertain Age of Climate Governance: Risks and Resilience" was held at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) on 22–23 September 2026. Co-organised by HSUHK's Department of Social Science, Centre for Public Policy Research and Centre for Greater China Studies, the conference was funded by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under its Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (project number UGC/IIDS14/H04/25).
More than 100 participants, including academics, policymakers, NGO representatives and students, joined discussions on the challenges and opportunities of energy transition. Speakers came from institutions including the University of Oxford, the University of Dundee, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Peking University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shih Chien University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
In the keynote sessions, Professor James Henderson of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies addressed geopolitics, while Professor Chang Chun-Ping of Shih Chien University discussed marine sustainability. Plenary speakers Professor Kong Dongmin of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Professor Yang Lei of Peking University examined air pollution and firm efficiency, and opportunities for energy cooperation amid geopolitical turbulence, respectively.
Four panel sessions explored supply chain risks and resilience, green finance and stranded assets, just transition and governance, and critical minerals and geopolitics. A practitioner roundtable considered how Hong Kong could strengthen its role as a regional platform for climate finance and energy transition, and the conditions needed to make that role credible and competitive.