Dr. Stanley Yip, CEO of G1X, was invited to speak as the keynote speaker at the 5the Jiangsu-Canada Green and Low Carbon Development Conference (17 November 2025) in the beautiful City of Wuxi which is located next ti the famous Yang Cheng Lake (where the best hairy crabs in the world are harvested) in Jiangsu Province China.

The conference was organised by the Jiangsu Green Building Association and supported by Canada Wood and the Provincial Government of Jiangsu, and also attended by the General Consulate of the Government of Canada.

I spoke on the latest developments of the international voluntary carbon markets VCM, and the opportunities as well as challenges to the building and construction industry in China and Asia. Dr, Yip emphasised that along the whole life cycle of the building industry from material to construction to operation, there are fast emerging opportunities in the global carbon finance markets. Yet the industry must need to bring in AI data technologies, innovative business models and collaboration along the value chain.

The talk was well revived and is highly relevant at this time when the Chinese government has just announced the implementation of more than 100 national level low carbon industrial parks within the 15th Five Year Plan ( 2026-2030). There will also be many more provincial level and city level low carbon development projects arising from this national goal.