How To Achieve A Greener Future
Singapore Tatler|March 2019

Industry leaders from across the continent joined the Asia Tatler Sustainability Forum at Soneva Kiri in Thailand for three days of brainstorming, workshops and debate. We report on the commitments they made and their hopes for a greener future.

How To Achieve A Greener Future

I have an 11-year-old son. I don’t want him to have to pay for my ignorance.” So said May Mei, one of the delegates at a forum organised by Asia Tatler to workshop ways to make our lives, businesses and countries more eco-friendly. May effectively was speaking for all present, but hardly from a position of ignorance. She is founder and executive director of the GoalBlue Low Carbon Development Centre, a China-based NGO that aims to promote sustainable lifestyles by encouraging responsible consumerism, a low-carbon economy, protection of the oceans, and healthy eating—for ourselves and the planet.

Ignorance was also not a trait of the other delegates gathered at the eco-friendly Soneva Kiri resort in Thailand. Some of the smartest business minds across Asia, they shared a passion for and experience in promoting sustainability, a desire to share their know-how, and connections through the Asia Tatler network.

It was her knowledge of this continentwide network that led Julie Lee to conceive the idea of the Asia Tatler Sustainability Forum at Soneva Kiri. As chief innovation officer of Edipresse Media Asia, publisher of the eight Asia Tatler titles, she realised the organisation could make an important contribution to developing sustainability by drawing together influential industry players from across Asia.

“There is a possibility here to create long-lasting relationships, and because everyone here is powerful and connected to other powerful people, this enables positive change,” Julie told the delegates on the first day of the inaugural three-day forum in November last year.

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