According to the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024, extreme weather events are predicted to be the greatest risk to humanity over the next decade. However, a recent study conducted by a global organisation found that only 21% of executives in the Asia Pacific region ranked climate change as a boardroom priority. Against the backdrop of looming economic and geopolitical headwinds, what lies ahead for sustainability?

To illuminate the path forward, Professor Sean Zhou, an international award-winning researcher in sustainable operations and chairperson of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School’s Department of Decisions, Operations, and Technology, joined alumni Harold Yip (BBA in Marketing 1987, EMBA 2001), a recycling pioneer and co-founder of Secure Information Disposal Services Limited and Mil Mill, and Chester Cheng (IBBA 2019), an intrapreneur and co-founder of a leading green lifestyle reward platform, Carbon Wallet, a subsidiary of MTR Lab, to discuss the difficult questions on how sustainability and profits can coexist.