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GREAT BRITISH SUNDAY ROAST COMPETITION
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Scaling Up Investments in
Southeast Asia's Sustainable
Infrastructure
Building a sustainable infrastructure — how can it be scaled
up to be commercially viable?
The BritCham Energy & Utilities Business Committee partnered with the
Sustainability Committee for their latest panel discussion in our Road to Net
Zero campaign.
The Great British Sunday roast has been served
up on dinner tables in Singapore this month as
part of an AHDB competition.
Consumers and individuals were challenged to
try their hand at the famous national dish and
sample the flavour, versatility, and quality of beef
from Britain. Those who took part were asked to
cook a roast dinner, take a photo and upload onto
social media.
AHDB teamed up with the British Chamber of
Commerce in Singapore, to launch this contest in
a bid to showcase the high quality of beef from
Britain to this all-important export market.
Four winners were chosen based on their su-
preme skills in creating eye-catching dishes and
they will now receive a prime cut of British beef.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
LUCKY WINNERS
Shirley Wardle
Brian Kennett
Frank Butler
Colin Ip
For more information on the Agriculture and
Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) visit
www.ahdb.org.uk
The move to a more sustainable world is gaining momentum.
Two key elements to accelerating that transition are technol-
ogy and financing. Sustainable infrastructure, particularly
related to energy, is the backbone of this transition.
Ultimately, sustainable infrastructure will only be success-
ful if it is commercially viable. To achieve this at the scale
required to produce an effective energy transition requires
projects that can be scaled up and remain financially at-
tractive. This will require a drive towards greater innovation
around systems thinking, financing models and investment
decisions.
Collaboration is a key watchword as we advance towards
COP26 in November. The E&U committee has been building
its connectivity in the region and brought together policy
makers, thought leaders, NGO’s, private sector developers
and financiers, leading to an insightful conversation moder-
ated by committee Co-Chairman Mark Florance. A 16-minute
summary of the session is available on the BritCham Singa-
pore podcast and the full session is available on-demand.
Governments in Asia have understandably prioritised na-
tional efforts and budgets to the pandemic response. As the
region starts to be more able to think beyond the immediate
health response, we need to ensure that sustainable infra-
structure does not remain down the priority list, and risk de-
laying development and deployment of mechanisms needed
for innovative financing and attract private capital to close
the infrastructure financing gap. The panel sought to iden-
tify what can be done to ensure resilience and sustainability
when meeting the energy and infrastructure demand that is
critical to keep up with and drive continued GDP growth in
Asia. It recognised that this type of investment was shown
to have more economic and job growth response than brown
(carbon intensive) investment, so made economic sense.
This region is at a very different place to the West with
energy capacity yet to meet demand. We examined whether
ASEAN could adapt initiatives at scale from the UK and India
and the key priorities the UK government is driving at COP26
and in the region.
The session provided insights from the British High Com-
mission, Singapore government, the private sector, NGO and
finance communities.
Top left to bottom right:
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“The quality of entries was fantastic
and our judges were very impressed with
the selection of dishes that did a great job
of showcasing the quality of British beef. We
really hope that our four lucky winners will
enjoy their prize and continue to cook with
our beef more frequently in the future.” AHDB
Export Manager, Susan Stewart
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Tom Moody, Regional Director SE Asia, Climate and Energy of UK
Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
Tim Rockell, Chair, BritCham Energy & Utilities Committee
Mark Florance, Co-Chair, BritCham Energy and Utilities Com-
mittee; and Investment Committee, Climate Investor One Fund,
Climate Investor Two Fund (Session Moderator)
William Hudson, Head of Southeast Asia, The Carbon Trust
Ted Low, Chief Operating Officer, Clifford Capital Pte. Ltd
Wu Lawrence, Co-Founder, Sunseap Group
Nitin Prasad, Chairman, Shell Companies in India
Kow Juan Tiang, Deputy Executive Director, Infrastructure Asia
Sabeena Nayyar, British Chamber of Commerce
COMMITTEE CONTENT
SCALING UP INVESTMENTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA'S SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE