AXA launches “AXA Climate School for university students in Hong Kong”

Free training to help young leaders to be truly future-ready by getting climate-ready

AXA Hong Kong and Macau (AXA) launches “AXA Climate School for university students in Hong Kong”, a free online course for all full-time university undergraduates in Hong Kong. Climate change is the biggest health risk facing humanity in the 21st century. Knowledge about climate change has become a new essential skill that all future leaders must have. Through this initiative, AXA aims to let university students learn about climate change and its impacts on health, society and economy as well as to motivate them to be climate-ready for a sustainable future. Participants will be issued an electronic certificate upon completion of the course, which will add value to their resume and showcase their global citizen quality.

AXA Climate School for university students in Hong Kong

Course availability: 2 June to 16 September 2022

Eligibility: Full-time university undergraduate students in Hong Kong

Fee: Free-of-charge

Language: English

Sally Wan

Chief Executive Officer, AXA Greater China

“At AXA, our Purpose is ‘Act for human progress by protecting what matters’. We strive to play a leading role in contributing to a sustainable future as an investor, insurer, and exemplary company. Through this initiative, we want to highlight the fact that climate change should not only be a concern of a particular group of people, rather, given its far-reaching impacts, everyone should pay attention to and take action about it. For our younger generations, knowledge of climate change is a must-have leadership skill as a global citizen. With AXA’s long-history of being at the forefront of combating climate change, we find it our obligation to share our expertise with our future leaders and help them to be future-ready. We hope this course can help kick-start our young leaders’ journey in making their contribution to a greener sustainable future.”

Taking the lead in the fight against climate change has been a key mission of AXA. In 2020, we announced sustaining our strong climate leadership as one of the five key strategy pillars in our global strategy. The Group has also set various global green targets such as making green investments to reach €26 billion by 2023, increasing the share of green insurance products, achieving carbon neutrality by 2025, as well as arranging all staffs to receive a 2-hour mandatory training on climate change. AXA Climate School is an comprehensive online programme founded in recent years that provides training for companies across all industries around the world. It enables the companies to upskill and engage their employees to succeed in sustainable transition and build a sustainable future together in their respective fields.

To learn more about the programme, please visit: https://www.axa.com.hk/en/axa-climate-school-university-students