Cheung was beforehand head of public affairs, communications and sustainability for the Coca-Cola model in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong-headquartered energy firm CLP has appointed Suzanne Cheung from Swire Coca-Cola to handle its environmental sustainability operate.
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Cheung strikes into the position of principal supervisor, group atmosphere, for CLP after greater than 5 years with Swire Coca-Cola, which is the Hong Kong bottler for fizzy drinks model Coca-Cola. She was head of public affairs, communications and sustainability for the Coca-Cola model in Hong Kong.
CLP has dedicated to obtain web zero emissions throughout its worth chain by 2050. The corporate launched a decarbonisation plan in 2007 with Local weather Imaginative and prescient 2050, and it has ratcheted up its commitments each few years to extra intently align with the worldwide 1.5⁰C warming aim.
It has pledged to part out coal fully by 2040, and has in the meantime lowered the carbon depth of the electrical energy it sells. Coal at the moment makes up 15 per cent of CLP’s gasoline combine for electrical energy technology, with renewables contributing simply 1 per cent.
Earlier than becoming a member of Coca-Cola in 2019, Cheung was an environmental activist. She beforehand headed up the Hong Kong chapter of marketing campaign group Associates of the Earth.
Cheung began her profession as a scientist with engineering agency Mott MacDonald. She later pivoted to consulting, working for the likes of Environmental Assets Administration and Hong Kong Productiveness Council.
