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BEIJING, Nov. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On November 22, the 2025 Energy Transition Conference grandly opened at the Energy Valley in Future Science City, Changping District, Beijing. Now in its seventh year at Energy Valley, this annual conference continues to grow as a key platform for charting the direction of the energy sector, launching cutting-edge technologies, and fostering international collaboration. It is playing a vital role in boosting Changping District’s global standing in the energy field, accelerating the clustering of high-quality projects, and shaping Energy Valley into a world-class hub for innovation.
This year’s conference, themed Accelerating Enterprise–Local Government Collaborative Innovation for Green Transition, featured a rich program: an opening and plenary session, two key events, one technical exchange activity, and six thematic meetings. Additional activities included guided tours of Energy Valley, project roadshows, and closed-door exchanges.
The opening ceremony and plenary session, held on the first day, brought together energy industry leaders from China and abroad to explore applied innovation, ecosystem development, and cross-sector collaboration. Major deliverables released at the event included the Global Energy Transition Report 2025 and the Beijing Future Science City Energy Valley Industrial Development White Paper 2025.
Two spotlight events — the Enterprise-Local Government Cooperation Forum and the Energy Valley High-Quality Development Conference — focused on deepening collaboration among enterprises, universities, financial institutions, and local governments. These sessions aimed to drive coordinated innovation and accelerate the rise of Energy Valley as a globally recognized energy innovation hub.
The conference featured a technical exchange activity that adopted a hybrid indoor-outdoor format. Fifteen renowned domestic and international enterprises were invited to showcase their latest innovations in green energy transition and digital technology. The indoor section highlighted the integration of energy with digital and AI technologies, while the outdoor exhibits featured hydrogen-powered robot dogs and two-wheelers, hydrogen production and refueling equipment, and drones for power equipment inspection.
The conference venue, the Energy Valley of Future Science City, is tasked with becoming a globally influential innovation hub in the energy sector and a core zone for Beijing’s advanced energy industry. It has distinctive strengths in developing the advanced energy industry, including abundant innovation resources, comprehensive industrial elements, well-established enterprise-friendly policies, and high-quality supporting services. Changping District will leverage Future Science City as a pivotal platform to transform the Energy Valley into a source of technological innovation, a new highland for industrial development, and a demonstration zone for green transition in the advanced energy field. Changping District warmly welcomes global talent, especially experts, entrepreneurs, and investors in the energy sector, to the Future Science City for exchanges, field visits, and investment opportunities. Let us join hands to build Future Science City and contribute our wisdom and strength to accelerating Beijing’s development as an international sci-tech innovation hub.
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Cascale played a leading role at the recent Asia-Pacific Sports and Outdoor Fashion Forum in Singapore and the Sustainable Textiles of the Asian Region (STAR) Annual Meeting in China, highlighting vast collaboration opportunities in decarbonization and policymaking.
At the 2025 STAR Annual Meeting in Humen, Guangdong Province, China, policy and industry leaders from across Asia’s textile and apparel sector convened to exchange best practices. Howard Kwong, senior manager, public affairs APAC, was invited by STAR to join a peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange session to present Cascale’s global policy and public affairs strategy.
In his remarks, Kwong outlined how Cascale works to advance smart, globally harmonized policy that enables credible sustainability action, while equipping members with the tools, data, and guidance they need to navigate fast-evolving regulation. He highlighted recent insights from the Manufacturer Interview Group — a project co-led by Cascale and the International Apparel Federation (IAF) — as well as Cascale’s APAC policy deep dive on corporate supply chain responsibility trends and the newly-established APAC Policy Member Expert Team (MET). Sovichea Saron, STAR’s head of secretariat, is a MET member, reflecting how manufacturer perspectives are integrated into Cascale’s global public affairs work.
Meaningful engagement was key. Throughout the event, Kwong met with the STAR board members and association leaders from China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC), Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar to explore deeper collaboration.
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In a separate event at the Asia-Pacific Outdoor & Sports Fashion Forum, Joyce Tsoi, Cascale’s senior director, decarbonization program, gave a virtual keynote presentation on the decarbonization and collaboration potential in the outdoor and sporting goods supply chain.
This event is part of the wider programming under the Asia-Pacific Textile & Supply Chain Summit & Expo (APTEXPO). Representing an extensive collaboration, the ASEAN Federation of Textile Industries (AFTEX) and the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC) jointly sponsored the event, with ECV International, and The Sub-Council of Textile Industry (CCPIT TEX) as co-organizers. The Singapore Fashion Council (SFC) also supported as a host association. Speakers joined from across Cascale’s membership, among them Mammut Sports Group AG, Puma, and New Balance.
Based in London and joining remotely, Tsoi’s virtual opening remarks began with a playful connection between an individual’s fitness commitments and a company’s decarbonization targets – pointing out that both require diligence, consistency, and commitment to succeed. Then she highlighted the top three systematic industry challenges that stop us from moving at the pace and scale necessary to combat climate change. The first was stalled engagement of Tier 2 materials production facilities, followed by few commitments from brands and retailers. This ultimately creates a lack of true business partnership. With that, Tsoi underscored the need for brands and manufacturers to have shared goals, vision, and responsibilities.
Her presentation then moved into hard-hitting industry carbon emission data, infused with actionable and regional insights from the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM). Her final points offered a hopeful resolution, highlighting the successes of manufacturers, reflecting eight sponsoring brands, that were achieved through participating in Cascale’s Manufacturers Climate Action Program (MCAP): To date, MCAP has engaged 85 manufacturers in 19 countries with a collective CO2 reduction potential of over 1,429,087 tCO2e from 38 validated participants. She ended with a call for collaboration, highlighting Cascale’s membership, including the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and the European Outdoor Group (EOG).