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Ching Hu is currently head of the Net Zero Transition Department at Singapore Business Federation, which objective is to drive initiatives to decarbonise Singapore and enterprises, including publishing the Singapore Emission Factors Registry and sector-specific decarbonisation programme for SMEs.
Previously, he worked at Terrascope, which offers an end-to-end decarbonisation SaaS platform enabling enterprises to measure and manage their emissions across operations, supply chains, and portfolios. Prior to Terrascope, he launched the Singapore office of EcoVadis - a global ESG ratings company - which served more than 800 companies within its first year of operations. The ratings include environmental, social, ethics and sustainable procurement metrics.
He started his career with the Singapore Government, spanning portfolios including manpower, education, transport and decarbonisation. Ching Hu graduated from the London School of Economics, SciencesPo Paris, and Oxford University. As an undergraduate at Oxford, he helped launch the inaugural Oxford Climate Forum - the UK's largest student-run climate change event.
Offering advice and sharing knowledge based on my past experience, especially on corporate sustainability matters and government policy.
Watching the documentary film 'An Inconvenient Truth' as a teenager opened my eyes to the perils of climate change.
Since then, I have devoted my academic, professional and personal pursuits to sustainability.
My previous company Terrascope is a company whose mission is to help other enterprises measure and manage their carbon emissions comprehensively. This is so critical to ensure that the world stays on track with the Paris Agreement outcomes to avoid dangerous climate change. While headquartered in Singapore, Terrascope's ambition is global and its work drives positive impact across large enterprises around the world.
The field of sustainability – and especially the carbon sector – is broad and dynamic. Regulatory developments and carbon disclosure standards are changing rapidly and getting more complex, and people are struggling to keep up.
My team and I kept abreast of latest developments and continually improved our end-to-end decarbonisation platform product to stay relevant.
More than a decade ago, as a 17-year-old student, I rallied my friends to give free educational talks to raise awareness of climate change to more than 25,000 youths across 40 schools in Singapore.
Our audience told us that they were inspired to incorporate green habits in their lives after listening to us, so I consider this to be a good first step on my life-long journey to make a green impact.