Moderator: Lara Dong

China, the world's second-largest economy, is under increasing pressure from overseas uncertainties in 2022, further complicating the government's efforts to stabilize economic growth, which has slowed owing to the real estate downturn and COVID-19-related disruptions. The achievement of the "around 5.5% growth" target this year will mainly hinge on more rollout of active and effective stimulus policies. In the long run, successful reforms to revitalize productivity growth will be crucial in offsetting the effect of working population decline and realizing sustainable growth.

Speaker: Yating Xu

Following the carbon pledges announcement, China continues to develop its "1+N" climate policy framework, in which balancing carbon ambitions, economic growth, and supply security has become the overarching principle. How will the high fuel price volatility impact China's decarbonization goals and pathways? Where are China's emissions trading scheme and voluntary carbon market heading? How will the "dual-control" policy evolve? How will China's power system adapt to achieve high renewable penetration, which is crucial in realizing a low-carbon future?

Speakers: Xiaonan Feng, Bing Han

Amid the high gas import cost environment, the freshly issued 14th FYP for energy continues with the recent trend of moving away from setting specific demand-side targets to focusing on supply security for energy including natural gas. Nonetheless, even without quantitative targets, the 14th FYP offers insight into the government's expectations of future gas demand in key sectors. What are the "hot spots" in China's gas market? Which sectors will face supply constraints in the high gas import cost environment? How will China procure new gas supply going forward?

Speakers: Tianshi Huang, Megan Jenkins

With the sustained policy support in tariff subsidy and guaranteed procurement, China's renewable market has grown exponentially to become the largest in the world. Entering grid parity era, China's renewable power generation faces rising market-based procurement volume year by year. How will China continue to drive renewable additions? What policy directions are the provincial competitive allocation rules pointing at? How will renewables progressively participate in market trading amid ongoing pricing liberalization?

Speakers: Chengyao Peng, Yiyan Cao

Moderator: Gang Hao

Europe's clear intention to reduce its reliance on Russian energy supply will lead to the region needing more LNG in an already tight global market. The European Commission's REPowerEU proposal aims to achieve independence from Russian gas before 2030, with major impacts possible in the next few years. What are the potential short-term implications for LNG trade and international gas prices? How could this change longer-term dynamics?

Speaker: Xiao Lu

Supply chain risks and increasing costs remain the major concerns for the renewables industry. Companies throughout the value chain will need to mitigate and hedge these risks to remain successful. Despite these concerns, the value of renewables remains high enough to sustain healthy capacity additions. What do high fuel prices mean for renewables? What are the growth drivers of renewables globally? What are the new supply chain trends for the main renewable technologies including solar photovoltaic, batteries, and onshore and offshore wind?

Speaker: Holly Hu

Current renewable penetration levels in Southeast Asian countries are still low. With new net-zero targets announced in 2021 across the region, there will be another round of opportunities for renewable development in this market. Can another market copy the renewable boom in Vietnam? Will the price level go down after countries move to renewable tenders? Can the current policies and regulations in each market support the ambitious renewable targets? In this session, we will focus on the upcoming renewable development opportunities in Southeast Asia and try to identify the next "hotspot" markets in the region.

Speaker: Allen Wang

As the climate crisis intensifies and countries around the world commit to net-zero emission targets, companies are being called on to make more environmentally responsible investments. Greenhouse gas emissions have become a leading sustainability indicator underpinning successful energy transition strategies. This has increased the need for decision-useful data and business-relevant analytics on corporate emissions. Corporate Emissions Solution provides standardized data and analytics on greenhouse gas emissions across the energy value chain and industrial sectors to help clients assess climate risks, evaluate investment decisions and benchmark decarbonization performance.

Speaker: Gang Hao